I am happy to announce that the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) jointly with with the Student’s Council of the Technical University of Sofia organize a lecture on Dependency Injection (DI), a design pattern widely used in the contemporary software design and architectures. The event will take place in the Technical University of Sofia

Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) kindly invites you to the next meeting of the Bulgarian Java User Group (BGJUG). The topic will be “Rich Client Applications using NetBeans 6 and Java Swing”. The objectives of this seminar is to show how to easily develop Rich Client applications using NetBeans 6 and Swing. The focus

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

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/.

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

The Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) which I currently manage is about to start a new division – Bulgarian .NET User Group. The division will focus on Microsoft technologies and will organize seminars, meetings, courses and will run other projects. Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) is working on .NET technology for several years.

The Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) which I lead for the last few years launches a Bulgarian Java User Group: The groups will perform regular meetings in Sofia once monthly and will organize technical events and discussions. It will have separate web site (http://www.java-bg.net) and independent membership regardless of the membership in the association.

In the last year I am actively conducting research in computational linguistics and natural language processing. My PhD thesis concerns identification of cognates and false friends between Bulgarian and Russian. In short, false friends are pairs of words in two languages that sound similar but differ in their meaning. Identification of false friends is related