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20. October 2010 18:23
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Are you looking for user groups, communities and leader that can connect you with the latest information, technologies, jobs, and project opportunities on the Microsoft developer platform in the Middle East & Africa? Not meant to be a comprehensive list, here is a snapshot from around our region for communities you can look to for events & membership – and even jobs via Microsoft Gulf – Jobsand Microsoft Middle East and Africa (MEA) Jobs, as well as general MEA organizations such as Microsoft Advocates in Middle East and Africa. Keep current with the latest Microsoft Valuable Professionals in your area by typing your country into the search box (e.g. Saudi Arabia).
| Region | Communities | Experts |
| Turkey | Microsoft Student Partners Turkey | Daron Yöndem Microsoft Regional Director, MEA | INETA Turkey Lead | Silverlight MVP |
| | Microsoft Certified Professionals Turkey | Mumin CICEK – Exchange Server MVP from Turkey. Blog |
| | Microsoft TURKEY | Evren Ayan – Sharepoint Services MVP from Turkey |
| | | Hasim Inal: Virtual Machine |
| | | Mustafa Acungil: SQL Server: Training
Blog, blog |
| | | Hakan Ulagan: SQL Server |
| | | Halil Ozturkci: Enterprise Security: Engineering |
| | | Emre Aydin: Exchange Server |
| | | Ekin Ozcicekciler: Device Application Development: Development |
| | | Ugur Umutluoglu: ASP/ASP.NET: Development |
| South Africa | Microsoft South Africa on Facebook 
| Hilton Giesenow – creator The Moss Show |
| | PHP Developers South Africa, | Robert MacLean – Team System MVP from South Africa |
| | PHP Community Site - South Africa Mirror | | |
| | Web Developers South Africa | Gail Shaw: SQL Server |
| | South African Web Design | Rudi Grobler: Windows Desktop Experience: Development |
| | sadeveloper.net | |
| Israel | Microsoft Israel R&D center
| Eyal Vardi: Visual C#: Architecture |
| | PHP Experts Tel Aviv-Yafo MySQL User Group ( Tel Aviv-Yafo , Israel ) | Shay Levy: PowerShell: Systems Administration |
| | | Adi Katz: Dynamics CRM: R & D |
| | | Pavel Yosifovich: Visual C++: Development |
| | | Haim Lazarovitch: File System Storage: Architecture |
| Pakistan | Microsoft Pakistan | Munir Usman - MVP |
| | Microsoft ASP .NET Pakistan | Jehan Ara – WIT Advocate, President of P@SHA |
| | INETA Pakistan | Fariha Akhtar – WIT Advocate |
| | SharePoint Pakistan User Group- 500 members | Adil Mughal – MVP, Development Executive at Telenor Pakistan |
| | | Khalil ur Rehman Khan: SharePoint Services: Architecture |
| | | Muhammad Imran Khawar: SharePoint Server: Architecture |
| | | Imran Mustafa: Dynamics CRM: Architecture |
| East & West Africa | Microsoft Nigeria - Family and Friends | Wilson Kutegeka – Visual Basic MVP from Uganda |
| Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Microsoft DreamSpark ™ - Saudi Arabia | Mohammad Asem Alhourani – Configuration Manager MVP from Saudi Arabia |
| | Saudi Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) | Fauzan Khan: ASP/ASP.NET: Development |
| | WIT – Women in Technology | Emad Mohammed Raghib Abdelaziz: Client App Dev |
| | Microsoft Technical Communities in Saudi Arabia | Monzer Osama AL Shaikh: Dynamics GP: Engineering |
| | Dot Net Community | |
| | Riyadh SharePoint User Group(RSUG.NET) – 1500 members | Yasir Attiq Butt: SharePoint Services: Development |
| United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait | Microsoft Gulf's Partners in Learning Program www.SharePoint4Arabs.com Dubai PHP (Dubai) – Meetup, Dubai MySQL User Group , Dubai PHP | Majid Ardforoushan – SharePoint MVP from United Arab Emirates Mohamed Yehia (Center of Expertise) |
| | TechiesUAE | Tarek GhazaliSQL Server MVP (Abu Dhabi) |
| Egypt | Egypt SharePoint User Group www.SharePoint4Arabs.com | Mohamed Zaki's blog - Sharepoint MVP Marwan Tarek Ayman El-Hattab Mohamed Yehia (Center of Expertise) |
| | www.egypt-developers.com | Yasser Makram – Expression Blend |
| | | Ahmed Bahaa Mohamed Farid – Team System |
| | Barmagy Blogger Community .Network.orgA group of people "code geeks", who share the same passion for development on .Net platform. who want to learn new stuff, and have the responsibility of telling others about it...
We organize monthly gathering (3rd Saturday of every month), also we fire Rock Star event twice a year.
Major Achievements: Cairo Code Camp '09 ...... The community has more than 1,300 members | Mohamed Yehia's blog-Sharepoint Architect
Ayman El Hattab- Sharepoint Trainer
Marwan Tarek – SharePoint MVP
Shady Khorshed- Sharepoint MVP
Ramy Mahrous- BI Developer
Karim Mohamed- Principal Lead Cloud Computing, LINK Development
Hossam Khalifa LINKdotNET. Microsoft Regional Director
ArchiVSTS
Mok Spaceplatform beyond internals |
| | Egyptian Microsoft MVPs
| Mina Nagy – Unified Communications MVP from Egypt |
| Lebanon | lebdev-first .NET community in Lebanon | Tarek Ghazali – SQL Server MVP from Lebanon |
| Jordan | JorDev | Mohammad R. Daoud: Dynamics GP: Development
M Dawoud's blog (Dynamics MVP) |
| | JordanSug- Jordan SharePoint User Group | Mohammed Saleh (Jordan) (C# MVP) |
| | Jordan IT Pros | |
| | دوت نت عربي | |
| Algeria | | Wissem Habboub – SQL Server |
| Morocco | Morocco .Net User Group (MONUG)Ce groupe regroupe toutes les personnes intéressés par le Technologie .Net | |
| Tunisia | Microsoft Student Partners : Tunisia | |
| Libya | | |
Related information:
The Developer Platform & Evangelism team for Web Strategy in Middle East & Africa
May 2010 - Microsoft Developer Events in Middle East & Africa
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by Asli
1. October 2010 20:41
The portfolio for PHP developers building applications in the cloud just got richer. There are 4 useful tools that you can use with Eclipse to develop & deploy PHP applications to Windows Azure.
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“Microsoft has been working to build bridges with open source communities for several years, and over the past two years has expanded its open source community project work to support cloud platform interoperability. “We are working to give open source developers more access to our platforms,” said Vijay Rajagopalan, Principal Architect for Microsoft’s Interoperability Strategy team. “One example of this is our support for an open and interoperable cloud, which we believe is critical for businesses, governments and organizations to take full advantage of cloud-enabled innovations. The new SDKs and tools we are announcing today are an important step towards ensuring an open cloud that in turn brings greater flexibility to our partners and customers.”
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· Windows Azure Companion – September 2010 Community Technology Preview(CTP)– is a new tool that aims to provide a seamless experience when installing and configuring PHP platform-elements (PHP runtime, extensions) and Web applications running on Windows Azure. This first CTP focuses on PHP, but it may be extended to be used for deploying any open source component or application that runs on Windows Azure. Read below for more details.
· Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP - September 2010 Update–is a plug-in for PHP developers using the Eclipse development environment, which provides tools to create, test and deploy Web applications targeting Windows Azure.
· Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP – September 2010 Update– is a command-line tool, which offers PHP developers a simple way to package PHP based applications in order to deploy to Windows Azure.
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by asli
1. July 2010 15:21
The web application gallery has grown from supporting 9 languages to 12, with the addition of Turkish, Arabic & Hebrew. Increase the brand recognition and reach of your ASP.NET or PHP web applications using the Web App Gallery & Web Platform Installer.
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