Ivan Bayross (opensourcevarsity)

My name is Ivan Bayross, I'm Gemini/Cancer cusp born, 61 year old Techno Geek, Author, Mentor and friend.

Here’s what's been the center of my world for the past thirty odd years:

Was born, grew up, and live in Mumbai, with my wife Cynthia and daughter Chriselle.

Mumbai is the commerce capital of the sub-continent called - India

Did my M.Tech in Manchester U.K. where I specialized in DBMS

Did a diploma in Business Management from the same place

Own a software development and export house located at Vile Parle East, a suburb of Mumbai, along with my wife

Craft commercial applications using Open source and Microsoft tools and technologies for multiple international clients

Have written and published 68 books, most of them focused on commercial application development using Microsoft and Open Source tools and technologies. To know my books do take get a quick look at http://www.ivanbayross.com/mybooks.html

Guest lecturer at a couple of MBA and Engineering colleges in Mumbai. Today, its guest lecturing that gives me my greatest pleasure

Want to know me better? Take a quick look at my personal website http://www.ivanbayross.com

I've always wanted to share my knowledge of Open source tools and technologies. Hence I'm creating a portal on which I write and publish a host of open source tutorials, do take a look at http://www.opensourcevarsity.com

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  E-Commerce & How to Make Money Online

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  Web Page & Web Site Development

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  Search Engines

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  Web Page & Web Site Development

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  Blogs

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  Blogs

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  How the Internet Works

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  Blogs

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  WordPress

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  Blogs

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  Blogging with WordPress

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  Colleges & University

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  Internet & the Web

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  Internet & the Web

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  Internet & the Web

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  Internet & the Web

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  Web Page & Web Site Development

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  Blogging with WordPress

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  Web Page & Web Site Development

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  Blogging with WordPress

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