On 20 February 2010 I started the “C# Fundamentals” course . This is the first level of training, just before the “.NET Development Essentials” course, covering the .NET Framework class library, databases, SQL Server and LINQ, Web technologies, ASP.NET and AJAX, Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight, as well as software engineering. The C# Fundamentals course

I was recently warned by students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) at Sofia University that our course “High-Quality Programming Code” was offered for only 100 students like most elective courses at FMI. We are looking for a way to extend the maximum allowed attendees but we cannot go aside the official administrative

Starting from February 2010 I will lead a team of software engineering professionals from Telerik Corporation who will teach the course “High-Quality Programming Code” in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) at Sofia University and at the Technical Univesity – Sofia (TU-Sofia). The course complements the fundamental university education with important software development and

Starting from February 2010 I will lead a team of .NET software engineering professionals who will teach the course “Web Applications Development with .NET Framework and ASP.NET” at the Technical Univesity – Sofia (TU-Sofia). The course complements the fundamental university education with contemporary Web development technologies. The outcomes for the students are the acquisition of

I was recently invited by the Board of European Students of Technology (B.E.S.T. Sofia) to give a talk on “Practical Software Engineering Fundamentals” in the Technical University of Sofia. The event is designed for students who wants to become software engineers. Venue: TU-Sofia, hall 1153 Date: 8 February (Monday), 18:00 Software engineering defines the software

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.

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

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