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New version of GWT Advanced Table

November 10, 2007
I released a new version of my GWT Advanced Table widget. It now supports multiple rows selection: I hope all GWT fans will enjoy using it.
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GForge as Collaboration Software for Software Development

November 8, 2007
About GForge I use GForge, an open-source software for collaboration in a development team for almost all my projects: software projects, courses, consulting projects, etc. I am very happy with GForge. It provides integrated set of collaboration tools: Subversion, CVS, project tracking tools, bug tracking, management of projects and users (create, manage, modify projects and
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Bulgarian Association of Software Developers is Now Member of INETA

October 31, 2007
Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) became an official member of INETA (the International .NET Association). Now BASD is registered .NET user group for Bulgaria and will promote the .NET technology through its members by seminars, conferences, meetings and other events. We are planning to run a new interesting event called “IT boxing” where .NET
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Give full trust to .NET assembly hosted in a Web page in Internet Explorer

I have a .NET 2.0 assembly that runs in the Internet Explorer Web browser as hosted control. The assembly is called ExampleControl.dll. The HTML file used to display it is the following: Now I want to increase its priviledges to be able to connect to Microsoft SQL Server. If I just create a new code
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JavaServer Faces (JSF) Seminar

October 18, 2007
Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) organizes a meeting of the Bulgarian Java User Group (BGJUG) on 25 October 2007 to discuss the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology and new trends. Speakers will be Ivan Davidov and Nikolay Dokovski. See the official invitation here: http://www.devbg.org/seminars/seminar-JSF-25-october-2007/.
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Semantic Similarity, False Friends, Cognates and Words Alignments @ RANLP 2007 Conference

September 30, 2007
As part of my PhD research I attended the RANLP 2007 conference in Borovets, Bulgaria (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing – 2007) to present two scientific papers and a novel algorithm for measuring semantic similarity between words by searching Google and analyzing the local contexts comming for the returned page excerpts. Improved Word Alignments
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BGJUG First Meeting, BASD Seminar, GWT Talk

On 26th of September 2007 I and Peter Tahchiev organized the first meeting of the Bulgarian Java User Group (BGJUG) running at the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD). It was attended by about 120 Java developers. It is a good start! I gave a talk on AJAX applications development with the Google Web Toolkit
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Forcing Windows to Hibernate

September 18, 2007
I usually use my home machine (running Windows 2003) from my office through Remote desktop. Sometimes in the evenings I want to hibernate it but the hibernation fails if I have used the machine remotely even if all remote connections are closed. I think this is a bug but I am not sure. In the