7 years of CodeWeekend

Hard to believe this was 7 years ago. Its uplifting to see this, and to know that I still feel the same excitement of running CodeWeekend with a group of amazing friends and colleagues as I did when we first got off the ground – we who collectively believed in the mission of educating the next generation …

What is Software Development?

oftware development is a process that includes all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software, sometimes in a planned and structured process. Software development may include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products.

Software Development in Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, the software industry is experiencing a steady but slow growth. Accessibility of Internet, governments investment and attention in going digital, private sector development and rise of technology companies and startups and overall security to enable all these transformations are necessary factors in making this growth slower or faster. However, as a person who is closely watching the software industry in Afghanistan through a community I founded in 2014, CodeWeekend, I can for sure say that the growth in all directions are promising.

A Successful Career in Software Development

As part of my over ten years of work experience in different software development roles and responsibilities in companies of different size and structure and in countries like Turkey, Afghanistan, England and Canada, I gathered insights and experiences that I summarily share below for those who want to start a software development career or want to excel their already started ones. Some of these principles that are also covered widely in the book: The Passionate Programmer, by Chad Fowler that I highly recommend.

Introduction to Razor and Microsoft WebMatrix

WebMatrix is a great tool for making ASP.NET Web Pages. As we know, ASP.NET Web Pages is a straightforward page-based architecture different from existing ASP.NET technologies, such as Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. Using the Web Pages approach, developers create their websites one page at a time, adding logic and behavior inline as needed. Installing …

Facebook tarzı zaman gösterimi (tarih, saat)

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Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to dropped and re-created…

This is a common problem when you want to do some changes over your database table; the common one : You want make the “is identity=yes” in Identity specification section. The error screen is as below: (Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to dropped and re-created. You …