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Telerik Academy Officially Launched Free Software Development Courses for 100 Students from February 2010

December 15, 2009
In the last few months I am working as full-time consultant for the training initiatives in Telerik. It is really an exciting company and I really enjoy my job as manager of the technical training and university relations. I still can’t believe that Telerik is really perfectly organized company, beyond my expectations and even dreams.
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Svetlin Nakov is No Longer Involved in the National Academy for Software Development (NASD)

December 1, 2009
Starting from March 2009 I left the National Academy for Software Development (NASD). NASD was really nice project and it was running successfully for few years but the idea changed so much that from some point in 2008 I was no longer able to enjoy doing this work. Why I left NASD? 1) My dream
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X.509 Certificate Validation in Java: Build and Verify Chain and Verify CLR with Bouncy Castle

For one of my recent projects I needed to implement X.509 certificate validation library that validates a certificate across given set of trusted root certificated and a set of intermediate certificate. Initially I thought this is a problem that has already out-of-the-box solution in BouncyCastle but the CRL verification was found to be unpleasant to
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NHibernate Lazy Loading BLOB column

November 30, 2009
For my last project we used Oracle 10g and NHibernate ORM framework (the project was started 4-5 yars ago, long before LINQ and ADO.NET Entity Framework). I had a database table which holds payment information along with scanned images of the payment documents. Usually such tables are mapped with a class fully corresponding to the
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New Book: Introduction To Programming With C#

November 21, 2009
Today I with Vesko Kolev started a new project: writing a C# book in Bulgarian for beginners that covers the fundamental concepts of computer programming, data structures and algorithms as well as object-oriented concepts, high-quality programming code and problem solving. The book is titled “Introduction to Programming with C#” and will be based on its
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Playing with the Scanner with WIA and C#

November 17, 2009
Last week I needed to implement a piece of software for scanning small documents (bank payment orders). The problem was to scan documents with specific size (less than A4) in 300 DPI and with normal brightness and contrast. I found that in C# there are two general approaches to this problem: Using the TWAIN interface
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Security and Administration of Oracle Database – Course @ FMI, Sofia University

November 10, 2009
I am involved in the teaching and organization of the course “Security and Administration of Oracle Database” which is held for the MSc programs in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) of Sofia University. The course is part of the MSc program “Information Protection in the Computer Systems and Networks”. The main lecturer in
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My Talk at OpenFest2009 – Writing Open Source Books with Large Team of Authors

November 9, 2009
Yesterday I delivered a talk at OpenFest’2009 to share my rich experience in writing free open-source books with a large team authors and editors. Particuarly I presented the methodology, the organizational and management practices I applied during the work on my last successfull project of this kind: the open source book “Introduction to Programming with