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I’ve been preparing for upgrading my MCPD certification from .Net 2.0 to .Net 3.5! And the upgrade exams released March 2009. And so I took my action these days and started to schedule and take the 2 upgrade exams.

It worth to mention that if you are an MCPD Enterprise Application Development, then it’s better for your to do the upgrade exams. This is much cheaper. The 2 upgrade exams equals to 6 one by one exams. You’re not only going to save your money, but also will save your time. Unless of course you already gained the credentials if you passed the beta exams.

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At the end of last month (27-28 Feb 2010) I got the opportunity to participate in Cairo CodeCamp event by giving a session about “Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0”.

Here is summary of my session –taken from Cairo CodeCamp web site-:

An introduction to Entity Framework 4.0 that will be shipped as part of .Net 4.0 and VS.Net 2010. Exploring new and enhanced features of Entity Framework 4.0. Walking through building entity data model using VS.Net 2010 and Entity Framework 4.0. Examining new design features in Entity Framework introducing Persistence Ignorance.

I uploaded my session and demos. You can download them now. I hope you’ll enjoy the demos and presentation. Click here to download.

All sessions should be posted soon to Cairo CodeCamp web site. Keep tracked for updates.

I have a plan to record my session as screen cast in English and post it here as well. But can’t promise when this will be as I have many other things I committed to recently.

Keep tuned anyway you might find interesting stuff posted soon.

Before I blog about my presentation and the great experience I had during Cairo CodeCamp days, I want to point to one cool Podcast show about “Women in Technology in the Muslim World” made by Scott Hanselman with Abeer and Lamees 2 Egyptian ladies who work for DashSoft

Abeer is senior system analyst who has over 6 years of experience on this field. Lamees is a software engineer and programmer who is transferring to system analyst role, and she is doing good job about that.

here is the description of this podecast taken from hanselminutes.com:

“Scott's in Egypt today and he had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst and Agile Project Manager at Dashsoft. Nearly 50% of the people at Cairo Code Camp are women. What is Egypt doing right to encourage so many women to choose technology as their career?”

Don’t miss this show to know more about women in technology in Muslim world and Egypt in specific. Click here to go to the podcast page.