WordPress for Dummies II
ACM SZABIST Student Chapter presents to you a sequal of WordPress for Dummies, a free of cost hands-on workshop which aims to teach you making websites, blogs, e-stores etc in a matter of few clicks.
There is something for everyone in it, those who did attend it last time will find a flow and learn advance topics and those who’ll attend it for the first time will not be left behind because we have a brief recap for them too. WordPress is an original production of Mr. Matt Mullenweg who licensed it to the GNU project in 2003. The software is powered by PHP and MySQL and is best known for its Content Management System (CMS). It has remarkable features such as choosing between different themes (i.e. the look of the webpage), several handy plugins (i.e. giving users the ability to develop and extend the functionalities of the software), fancy widgets (i.e. drag-and-drop content sidebars for ease of use) and multi-blogging. Furthermore, WordPress has a Web Template System (WTS) which is what is required to make all the written material to appear on the internet.
Hence, it would be our pleasure to cordially invite all interested individuals to attend this seminar which will take place on Tuesday (17th January 2012) from 2pm to 5pm in Lab 1 & 2, 90 Campus, SZABIST. We are anticipating for your arrival.
WordPress for Dummies
ACM SZABIST Student Chapter presents to you a wordpress workshop which will cover all nitty gritty details from setting up wordpress to using it as a CMS for your site. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet. It was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of February 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 32.5 million times.
To attend this workshop no previous knowledge is required. It is open for all SZABISTIANS free of cost. Just fill out this form
Register here: https://docs.google.com/
SMDC 2011 Encouraging Mobile Application Development
There is quite a lot of potential in the mobile application development industry. Recognizing this, and encouraging students to enter this field, the Association of Computing Machinery, ACM, organized the SZABIST Mobile Development Conference 2011. The SMDC event was held at SZABIST University on October 23, 2011 with CIO Pakistan and PCWorld Pakistan as Technology Media Partners.
ACM has been accredited with being both the largest educational as well as scientific society in the world with over 92,000 global partners and an aim to promote computing as a science in its own right and an exciting profession that one may follow with ease. ACM comprises of three kinds of chapters; the Special Interest Groups, Professional Chapters and Student Chapters. It is to ACM’s success that it already has over 500 student chapters including the one at SZABIST, Karachi. Consequently, the conference organized by ACM was not only beneficial for students; it was also very well attended by students from various institutions across Karachi. The attendees were all anxious to learn about careers in the mobile application development arena.
http://ciopakistan.com/2011/11/smdc%E2%80%9911-encouraging-mobile-application-development/ for more.
SZABIST Mobile Development Conference 2011
An event presented to you all by ACM; the Association for Computing Machinery. This mega event will introduce the audience to the latest technology in mobile gadgetry. It will explore fascinating ideas dealing with the brand new “iPhone” Operating System (iOS), Android and Windows Phone development programs. Much like a professional forum, the conference will be a 9 hour session, providing a detailed look at all three innovations (2-3 hours each with a refreshment break in between each topic).
The ‘iPhone’ Operating System (iOS) is the original operating system created by the ‘Apple’ Corporation. It’s initial functionality only supported the ‘iPhone’, however it also supports other Apple products such as the iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV etc. Within the last few months of the year 201o, the Operation System (OS) had a incredible 26% OS market share and it doesn’t end there as it continues to grab more and more consumers towards it through it’s ease of use and amazingly unique applications. Therefore, we are planning on bringing this technology to all the participates through an in-depth seminar.
The Android Operating System is the ‘it’ thing for almost every newest smartphone and tablet computers. It was originally designed by Android Inc. but later sold to the Google company in 2005. It consists of a Linux Kernel hence works efficiently and has minimal security threats. Much like the iOS, it also has several user-friendly applications that clients can easily operate. The following OS was labeled as the best-selling smartphone platform throughout the world in Q4 2010 by ‘Canalys’. For these reasons, we thought of exploring this fantastic gizmo as well.
Lastly, the Windows Phone Operating System which was formerly known as the Windows Phone 7 series, is the OS for mobiles which was developed by the ‘Microsoft’ Corporations. It is essentially made to cater to the consumer market rather than the enterprise market.With this OS, Microsoft has managed to offer a more accessible user interface with its design language called Metro. This language helps integrating the operating system with any third party or other Microsoft services. In addition it also controls the hardware it runs on. Well, to us, that is a brilliant achievement for Microsoft which inspires us to bring the creation to the audience for their analyses and observations. It will prove to be as great as it seems to be.
The SMDC 2011 will be held on 16th October 2011 which is a tentative date at this point in time and we, at ACM, request your presence there. Hope to see you and help you learn more about computing machinery. After all, that is what our foremost aim is.
Membership Renewal Call for ACM Members 2010-11
All 2010-11 ACM SZABIST Student Chapter members are requested to get their membership renewed in order to avoid any membership suspension. We plan on to sweep the sleeping lot. Here is the link for form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGZIS3RPY0xBSkRzQjRjckQySmtLaVE6MQ
ACM SZABIST Student Chapter at Society Fair 2011
We opened our registrations as per convention according to SSC’s instructions from 6th of September 2011 till Society Fair on 9th of September 2011. A total of 70+ applicants signed up of ACM Membership which was very encouraging as compared to last year. Something that needs special mention here is we had applications from BBA & MBA is large numbers. All the applicants will be screened before they are finally inducted into ACM. Interviews are expected to be in third week of September. We look forward to induction of young blood in ACM.
ACM SZABIST Student Chapter – Recruitment 2011
First Computing Society of SZABIST is recruiting. ACM has a lot to offer, you can apply for
- Marketing
- Technical
- Creative
- Event Management
- Logistics
- Editorial department
Get your forms from 90 photocopier & ACM desk at 100. You can submit back to 90 photocopier, ACM desk at 100 or ACM Stall in Society Fair (9th Sept.). Hurry up last date to apply is 9th of sept. We look forward to induction of young blood in ACM. ACM SZABIST Student Chapter, individually unique, together complete.
BS Computing Induction 2011
A session was conducted on 11th August 2011 prior to recruitment in collaboration with IEEE for freshmen to inform them about both the societies and help them decide which are the ones to go for. It was very well received by freshies. Special mention for Sir Kumail Raza, Sir Adeel Ahmed & Sir Kamran Wali who spared a part of their class’ time for induction during a tight schedule of Ramadan.
Photo courtesy – Mahrosh Irfan
