After a few months absence, I’m back. I’ve redesigned the site and a few more updates will hopefully come in the next few weeks.

So much has happened since my last post –

• VS 2010 and .net 4.0 beta
• MVC 2.0 beta
• Silverlight 4.0 beta
• New Bing maps
• Azure improvements

-and that’s just a high level view :)

I’ll hopefully put up some articles to cover these soon. Stay tuned!

I was announced asp.net MVP today. It’s great to receive the award as a recognition of my activities at the asp.net forums. I hope I can continue to help people out there and that this site will grow in the process. It’s my first time receiving the award and hopefully it won’t be the last. In an attempt to hold on to it(!), I’ll ask you guys…what should I write about? What aspects of asp.net do you want me to cover? I’ll be posting some video tutorials soon. What topics do you want me to go through? Lemme know and I just might listen ;).

It’s finally happening…we’re having an MS dev (and IT) event here in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This is the first one ever and marks a significant landmark for the software industry here. It’s going to be held on June 20, at IDB Bhaban Auditorium. You can find details and register (mandatory) for the event here:

http://msdnbangladesh.net/content/msday.aspx

Seats are limited…only 200 in total. It’s open for devs, IT pros and students.

I’ll be doing a half hour session on Windows Azure, from 2:45pm to 3:15pm. It’s the first time I’m doing something like this, and I hope it goes well.

If you’re a dev / IT pro / student enthusiastic about MS technology, then register and be there. The MVPs from Bangladesh will be there and they’ll be doing sessions covering asp.net, MVC, silverlight 3, Win 7, IE8, Office 2007, VS 2010 Team System, Windows Live, MS Project, Sharepoint, Exchange Server, SQL 2008 – just be there…ok?

[The final agenda will be put up on the site on June 15.]

I’ve been contributing more and more to the asp.net community recently. I had a somewhat dry spell two to three moths back. I completed my graduation in Computer Science and Engineering, moved out of the university dorms, got a new apartment, had a nightmare furnishing it; and finally got some time to sit down and get back to the community. Having a bit of free time, I wanted to make up for the lost time as much as I could. And now, it has happened. I never thought I’d actually achieve this, but I’ve somehow managed to get to the top contributor spot in the last 30 days. And here’s a nice pic to show my reward [although helping everyone is reward enough…]:

I’ll try keeping hold of my throne and help as much as I can. There’s a lot of work coming up ahead, but I’ll do my best to help you guys.

[Note to Microsoft: make me an MVP!!]

[Note to everyone else: Sorry for that blatant bit of self advertising!!]

Just made the top answerer for the Getting Started section on the www.asp.net forums :)

I overtook the awesome vinz. Of course, he's likely to bounce back tomorrow; and of course, he leads a lot of the boards I visit - the guy has endless time (and knowledge) :D

I joined the forums way back in January 2007. I was more of a consumer back then. Since May, I've been actively trying to help others on the forums. I've learned a lot helping others, and it's jolly good fun (and practice). I'll likely make Star (7500+ points) in a few days, and I fully intend to continue.

See you guys there :D