After 5 months development my .NET engineering team launched an unique service in Internet – online venues rental Web portal (www.evenues.com). eVenues is a new online service that aggregates available meeting room space and connects prospective “space renters” with “space providers”. Today, many companies have meeting room space that sits vacant for hours/days. By enabling

Today I had to solve an unusual problem: I needed to find the directory that was used to load a specific Java .class file (the location in the file system of given .class file). I needed it because I wanted to load resources located somewhere in the classPath with file access API (not with accessable

I am preparing the next IT Boxing event: Platforms for Enterprise Development, Web Services and SOA. The event will be held on 25 June 2008 from 17:30 in Park Hotel Moscow in Sofia. Platforms for Enterprise Development, Web Services and SOA Enterprise applications are complex distributed software systems designed to meet the requirements and needs

In this article I will focus on buiding the data access layer in ASP.NET 3.5 Web applications with LINQ to SQL and SQL Server. Lots of articles introduce the LINQ technology, the LINQ to SQL object-relational mapping technology and ASP.NET 3.5 so I will skips these introduction and will explain the main problem I found

I gave two talks at the Microsoft Days 2008 in InterExpo Center Sofia on 24 and 25 April: What is New in ASP.NET 3.5? This session focused on the exiting recently introduced features and technologies in ASP.NET 3.5. Starting from ASP.NET and LINQ integration and ASP.NET dynamic data, the I went through the new ASP.NET

Last month I was invited by Microsoft to an interview in their largest European development center in Dublin. It was exciting trip and real challenge to see the Microsoft development live. I was excited of their professionalism in all directions: Professional organization – phone interviews, invitation, flight, accomodation, etc. Nearly perfect development process – like

The Java team won the second IT Boxing match on Web technologies on 6 March 2008 in Sofia. The battle was merciless: 24 contestants in 4 teams (.NET, Java, PHP and Ruby) fighted for proving their technology better in 9 technical talks with live demonstrations. The teams presented ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Echo2, Google

The topic of this event is “Web Development Technologies: ASP.NET vs. Java & JSF vs. PHP vs. Ruby”. The .NET team will present the ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and the new ASP.NET extensions in .NET Framework 3.5. The Java team will stand up for JavaServer Faces (JSF), Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Echo Framework and