Introduction to programming course

This Sunday we hold the IQ test for our free exam Introduction to programming. About 80 90 people showed up.

ICQ contact list with Trillian

I finally managed to get Trillian working. In case I have not complained you yet, I had a lot of missing and orphaned contacts in my Trillian. It seems that the problem was not in Trillian service, but in ICQ one. ICQ support was kind enough to reply me that each group in contact list has maximum of 200 users and maximum 600 for the whole contact list. So I opened ICQ 5.0, moved half of the users from General group to Friends group and … magic, all contacts are fine now. Still I have the feeling that some contacts are missing, but the most important is that there are no orphaned contacts now. The list seems to work well now.

Data Warehouse Seminar recap

Some words regarding the Data Warehouse seminar that I wrote earlier about. I must say this time we got it right. There were one or two oversights, but now after we know them, we can prevent them also from happening in future. In general I think the people are happy, the sessions were very good and now we are even thinking of making a regular course on designing and building data warehouse solutions. More information will be available at academy.devbg.org.
Thanks to all for attending this event.

FYI: The seminar, Java - All About the Certification, will be held in Sofia, due to customer feedback. The exact time and place will be determined additionally.

Outsourcing in Bulgaria

Steven Forte speech on .NET Rocks about outsourcing and globalization is really interesting. I think he has really felt the pain in outsourcing software development. Most of the things are so trivial for us Bulgarians, may be because we work mostly on outsourcing projects, but for Americans they may be not so obvious.
What is odd, he never mentioned Bulgaria in his short list for preferred outsourcing countries. May be that’s the result of the work that generation of governments did for technology innovation in Bulgaria – and that is nothing. But that’s a personal opinion.

Developing for .NET 1.1 with Visual Studio 2005

If you are going to target .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0, MSBee can help you. It is a new tool for developing .NET application in Visual Studio 2005 from the Developer Solutions team.