Svetlin Nakov has 20+ years of technical background as software engineer, project manager, consultant, trainer, and digital entrepreneur with rich technical experience (Web development, information systems, databases, software engineering, cryptography, blockchain, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python). Svetlin Nakov is a regular speaker at hundreds of conferences, seminars, courses and other trainings and holds a PhD degree in computer science. He is author of 15 books about computer programming and software technologies, lives in Sofia, Bulgaria and works as an passionate trainer and inspirer at SoftUni.
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
With a few collagues I teach a course in Design Patterns in Sofia University for the summer semester of 2007/2008. We will cover the classical GoF patterns (creational, functional and behavioral) and as well as some additional topics like architectural patterns (like MVC). Our curriculum is based on the classical book “Design Patterns: Elements of
The next IT Boxing event is coming. The date is 6 March 2008. TThe venue is the same: Sofia, Park-hotel Moscow. The topic is “Web technologies” and the team will present the hottest Web technologies from .NET, Java and PHP. Talks will be split into short sessions (20 minutes) and the focus will be on
A week ago I visited Google in Zurich, Switzerland. Initially I didn’t consider working in Google and changing my job. During the years many of their recruiters asked me once monthly (at average) to join Google. I had so much invitations to join Google in Mountain View, Zurich, Munich and other locations that I finally
Never use GoDaddy! GoDaddy are cheaters! A year ago I needed to purchase hosting services for hosting few domains and emails. In the adveertisment it was said that GoDaddy supports anything I need (hosting emails, web, subdomains, enough traffic and hosting space) but it was misleading advertisment. GoDaddy is a fraud!!! Here are few reasons
The “IT Boxing” Visited by 250 Developers! On 11 December 2007 I organized the largest event of the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD). It was held in Sofia and was visited by 250 software engineers and thus BASD was proved to be #1 community organization in Bulgaria. The subject of this first “IT Boxing”
Next week (11 December 2007) I organized very interesting event for developers in Sofia: IT Boxing championship where .NET and Java developers will dispute the state-of-the-art data access technologies in their platforms: http://itboxing.devbg.org/events/adonet-entity-framework-linq-vs-jpa-hibernate/. About the IT Boxing Championship The initiative “IT Boxing Championship” is a series of events organized by the Bulgarian Association of Software
