SoftExpo Photos

SoftExpo, the annual trade fair of BASIS (Bangladesh Assoc. of Software and Information Services), took place last week. It was a comprehens...

Good Day for IT in Bangladesh

Yesterday I attended the inaugural ceremony of the Chittagong Custom House Automation Project at the Bd-China Friendship Center. The project...

Can We Make Them Stay?

In March 2006, in the middle of my tenure at DataSoft (a Dhaka software company), we found ourselves searching for a pre-Sales Engineer - so...

A New Phone

After years of using very basic mobile phones, I have gotten my hands on a Java phone, the Nokia N73 (Music Edition.) It has two cameras. He...

Imex Revisited

Upon my return home I found my laptop battery was dead. So I called Asif at Imex . He had a replacement battery of the same size. So I went ...

Do IT People Make Lousy Poets?

A few days ago, I met someone, a poet, who writes a poetry blog. While chatting with him, I told him that I am not into contemporary poetry ...

Laptop Repair

One of our laptops had an, erm, accident. Water was spilled on the keyboard. It refused to power up after that. We tried to dry it out for s...

Making of a Software Engineer

I wrote this article for the Daily Star on some skills that a fresh IT graduate, knowledgeable in technology but inexperienced as an engin...

A Success Story - Repeatable Here?

My friend Wazi from the Bay Area alerted me to this story: Jawed Karim, one of the three founders of YouTube, is the son of a Bangladeshi fa...