Last Sunday I was given an invited talk in the Club “Stop and Think!” about writing open source books with a large team of 30 authors. This process is really a challenge because the authors are enthusiasts and they write for the good of the community. You are not their boss because you don’t pay

Today I granted to the community (under MIT license) the source code of the most interesting algorithms designed for my PhD thesis (implemented in C#): MMEDR – algorithm for measuring weighted orthographic similarity between Bulgarian and Russian words taking into account some linguistically motivated Bulgarian-Russian correspondences (current supports Bulgarian and Russian only) SemSim – algorithm

All Java and Java EE developers are invited to the unique for the Balkans and Eastern Europe conference on Java technologies called Java2Days. At the conference distinguished speakers will talk in Sofia about Java, Java EE 6, JBoss, EJB 3.1, Spring Framework, JPA, OSGi, GWT, JSF, jBPM, Wicket, JRockit, cloud computing and other hot technologies.

All .NET and Microsoft oriented developers are invited to DevReach 2009 conference – the premier conference for Microsoft technologies for the Balkans and Eastern Europe region. This year the conference attracts distinguished speakers who will deliver talks about Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET 4.0, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, IIS 7, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint, SQL Server 2008, business

Today I presented a scientific publication about measuring modified orthographic similarity between Bulgarian and Russian words at the Workshop “Multilingual Resources, Technologies and Evaluation for Central and Eastern European Languages”, held in conjunction with the scientific conference RANLP’2009. The paper is titled “A Knowledge-Rich Approach to Measuring the Similarity between Bulgarian and Russian Words” and

Today I presented at the prestigious scientific conference RANLP’2009 a research paper about new methods of extraction of false friends from parallel corpora, which is a major part of my PhD thesis. The article is named “Unsupervised Extraction of False Friends from Parallel Bi-Texts Using the Web as a Corpus” and was accepted after passing

Most people using ASP.NET Form Authentication use the built-in <asp:Login> control that works fine but when we use a custom login form we have the follofing problem: the cookie expiration timeout in ASP.NET Forms Authentication for persistent and non-persistent sessions uses the same value. It is defined in Web.config in the timeout attribute of the

By design when we open an SSL connection in Java (e.g. through java.net.URL.openConnection(“https://….”)) the JSSE implementation of the SSL protocol performs few validations to ensure the requested host is not fake. This involves validation of the server’s X.509 certificate with the PKIX algorithm and checking the host name agains the certificate subject. If the SSL