Bulgarian team won the The Engineering Excellence Achievement Award in Imagine Cup 2008. Boryana Miloshevska, Dobromira Ivanova, Martin Damyanov and Yordan Pavlov from Technical University of Sofia won the prestigious award with their forest fire detection software solution. The minister of science and culture congratulated the winners himself and gave high recognition of their work. […]

My good friend Dean Vitner started a great idea that grow up very fast and turned into really valuable one. He wanted to gather some speakers to present in depth and professional sessions without any marketing and basic overview topics. The idea got accepted very well by Microsoft Croatia and they decided to supported. Now […]

I am going to speak this Saturday at a brand new conference at Warsaw, Poland called Communities to Communities 2008 – ” the first ever countrywide IT conference in Poland organized by community of Microsoft .NET and SQL Server professionals and geeks”. I am going to talk about Debugging and Crash Dump Analysis of ASP.NET […]

I am going to teach a one day course on what is new and shining in Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008. The course is delivered by WebAcademy.dk. It will be held on 13th March (this Thursday). Below is course agenda in Denmark (as Steven Forte says – I hope they know I […]

Microsoft has just announced their annual conference MS Days 2008 on 24th and 25th of April in the International Exhibition Center – Sofia. For the second time the conference is paid one, but the price is only 50 euro for two days which is absolutely nothing compared to what you get. Having a paid conference […]

So many things are happening in Bulgaria and in Microsoft technologies in general that I can hardly manage to write a line about everything, but I will try to do this in series of posts. The second match of IT Boxing has just finished. This time the fight was about “ASP.NET vs. Java & JSF […]

A very good friend of mine, Mihail Mihaylov (a.k.a. Mike Ramm), is starting professional training services. His first course will be next week (13 March 2008) on Software Project Management Fundamentals. Usually I find such project management courses a total waste of time. However I know that Mike was in all the hell of project […]

This Saturday we organized the first pilot CodeCamp in Bulgaria. Personally I think the event was superb. First it was the variety of the nature of presentation that were given. They were not required to follow any specific technology track and no one get bored because of that. The small group that we kept allowed […]

I have been invited to talk at BASTA! Spring 2008 edition between 25-29 February 2008. I am going to talk about what testing tools are available in Visual Studio 2008 compared in different editions and how to use these tools in real life production enviroment. My session is part of the special VSTS day at […]