I am just returning from a seminar on Unit Testing organized by BASD with the association of Sofia University. The event gathered more than 170 people which make it one of biggest one for the recent months. It is obvious that Bulgarian developers are extremely interested in the benefits and implementation of unit test framework. […]
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Bulgaria signs EU contract
By Martin Kulov in Misc 1 Comment
Bulgaria signed the contract for joining EU yesterday. Cyrillic becomes the third alphabet in the EU and is going to be an official language also. Congratulation to all Bulgarians!
Risk Management in QA Activities
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
Bulgarian QA Association is going to carry out its second meeting. The primary focus this time is “Risk Management in QA Activities”. See the agenda bellow: 27 April, 18:30h, Sciant office “Analysis and Risk Management” – Vladimir Aleksiev“Risk based testing strategies” – George Rusev
Rants
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
Friday is the most unproductive day. Period.
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle No Comments
Shhhh, quiet.VSTS Beta 2 is out there. Hurry up while the server is not too busy.
Bring Chris Brumme’s blog back
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
Chris, we want you back. Please blog anytime, anywhere. Your comments are invaluable. Join the effort. Help us bring Chris Brumme back to blogging.
Singleton pattern using MemoryBarrier
By Martin Kulov in Programming No Comments
After reading some articles on .NET memory model I understood two things. First you should never rely on MSDN for good multithreading advice. And second – the best way to create a singleton is the following: public sealed class Singleton { private Singleton() { } private static Singleton value; private static object syncRoot = new […]
VSTS Webcasts in April
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle No Comments
Microsoft is planning series of webcasts in April about Visual Studio Team System. Check them out at Webcast Series.
Demo – VSTO Excel solution
By Martin Kulov in Programming No Comments
I watched a demo on VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) posted by Christina Storm, Program Manager for Visual Studio 2005. It is truly amazing! I have been wondering what this VSTO has more to provide from the existing Microsoft Office .NET Interoperability components. Watch the demo to find the difference. A little warm up […]
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
Microsoft released the long awaited Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Basically it has the features that Windows XP SP2 provides. Additional ones include: WebDAVRedirector – Allows you to connect to Windows SharePoint Service and other WevDAV servers as they were file servers. Command line options in netshell command to control the new firewall state […]