Talent Hunt
M. Hasan Khan - the Gilly Boy!
Name: M.Hasan Khan
Star: Cancer
Age: 19
Date Of Birth:
17th July 1985
Favorite Colors:
Black, Blue and White
Bahria University,
Islamabad Campus |

Hasan
is in the middle with blue cap :) |
Interview
I am pleased to
inform you that you're one of the shining stars Bahria.net team loves to
interview and add in the Bahria.net Talent Hunt section. How does it feel
to be interviewed? |
I’m greatly honored and surprised at the same
time since In my own opinion I’m not good enough to be interviewed for this title.
So what are you by
profession else than a student? |
I see myself as an engineer.
Whats Gilly? and is it
Jilly or Gilly? :P I mean by pronounciation? |
Gilly is my nickname given to me by my grand mother after she showed me a
pic of cats and said “Billy” (In Urdu) I repeated the word pronouncing it
“Gilly” and its my nickname since then after which I’ve named my msn
client “Gilly Messenger”
Gilly is quite famous,
isn't it? How did you do it? |
It first started off as a research project as I was quite interested in
learning MSN protocol and socket programming but later on
I developed it for my self to get rid of many msn addons I had to
use simultaneously and finally it ended up as a CrackSoft product
CrackSoft is
the name rite? Why Crack? |
I looked for many names for my company but all of them were
already registered by someone so I finally decided CrackSoft as the name and “Cracking
Technologies” as the slogan.
When are you
colorizing your website? no offence! :) |
Well…I’m not deeply interested in webdesigning neither I have designed
this website on my own so there is nothing I can do at the moment
but hopefully the site layout will change someday.
Tell me about the
projects CrackSoft have completed? |
There have been many softwares that CrackSoft published but I took them
off the site due to illegality of their nature hence there is no point in mentioning them either so I have only four softwares listed on the site at
the moment:-
-
SMS Messenger (For web2sms chat with mobilink,
instaphone, ufone and paktel users)
-
Smart WhoIs (For getting WhoIs information of any IP or top level domain)
-
Stay Connected (For avoiding dialup
disconnection due to idle time out)
-
Gilly Messenger (Alternative client for MSN Messenger service with
scripting feature).
Any future plans?
if they aren't secret :) |
I don’t have any big plans as such but I do hope to contribute in research and development in IT field of Pakistan and give it some respect internationally.
Is your family
cooperative towards what you're doing? |
I get told off from time to time for too much usage of computer and
internet but its all good for my own self in the end.
How much important
is this factor of family supporting your interests?
|
Not much. If you've got to do something; you've got to do it

Style Shtyle ;)
Coder? no. Programmer? yes. I believe we all are programmers in someway. Its just a matter of using your mind.
Many students and
other people are impressed by you. How can they become someone like you? |
That’s quite flattering to know and to answer your question I’d say
anyone can become better than I am if they have deep interest in what they are doing.
How do you see
Pakistan's IT market? Is it business worthy? |
Call it my lack of knowledge but I personally don’t know a single
Pakistani software company known internationally. All I see are Software Houses with tiny goals. The point of
software piracy can be considered but I believe if the software is good
enough, the international sale can cover up the loss in Pakistan. We seriously need some software piracy laws here.
Are you optimistic
about future of IT in Pakistan? |
It surely will improve if more sensible, young, talented and practical
people get involved in it for the sake of improving it rather than earning fortunes.
Do you want to
praise or appreciate someone for your professional life? |
I’ve learned most of what I know yet, during my job at Future
Connect so I’m greatly thankful to the CEO (Asad Manzur) for introducing
me to new stuff to work with. I'd also like to thank everyone who has ever helped me with any computer related problem.
How do you explain
your personal life in a sentence or two? |
Unpredictable. I evolve as I live.
Any lessons from
the past? |
Trust and business do not blend.
By nature, are you
short tempered? |
Throughout my life I’ve tried to increase the level of my tolerance
but I’ve always been gifted with tougher times by nature, challenging my
effort...and I lose.
You aren't smoker,
you don't take tea but then how do you program? Will you deny this myth
that a programmer needs something like this? :) |
That explains why I have a headache most of the time and why I try to laugh out
loud and act waggish most of the time
How did you come to
know about Bahria.net & when? |
It was first introduced to me by my friend Adil
and I’m attached to it since then.
You are also in the
development team of Bahria.net, so I won't ask any ideas, comments or
suggestions here. :) Any message for Bahria.net users? |
Watch out cause we’re going to change everything around you..
Thank you very much for giving me the honor.
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