Martin Kulov's Blog

Waiting... that's what I have been doing almost 30% of the time this night. "It is not a normal wait". It just happens that I am working on both machines at a time and both of them are now still and are waiting for "zee germans".
When will be the time where no human will ever wait for the machine to finish its work?
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 5:42 AM |

This week I got a little upgrade in my experience points :). I successfully passed the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) exam.
One wish comes true.

Thanks to all my friends and supporters.
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:55 AM |

Visual Studio 2005 has Auto Recover feature. Finally, at your fingertips :).



# posted by Martin Kulov @ 6:03 AM |

When you are creating Movie Collection Starter Kit keep in mind that the project wizard just prepares the files for the project. You need to ‘Save’ the project so the files can actually appear on the disk.
One more step is required. In project setting open the .settings file and change the connection string to SQL Express database to point to the location where the .mdf file resides. It should be in the same folder where you saved your project.
Now you are ready to rock.
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 4:17 AM |

The regular meeting of Sofia .NET User Group will be held at 11h on 12th November at Sofia University, Chemistry Department building, room 210 with the association of BARS and Sofia University. This time the event will present the launch of Visual Studio 2005, MS SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006. The User Group has prepared some surprises for the attendees.

Here is the program.

11:00 – 11:15 – Opening
11:15 – 11:45 – Introduction to Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006. Speaker – Vladimir Chalkov.
11:45 – 12:00 - Break
12:00 – 13:30 – Practical applications of Visual Studio 2005 Team System Source Control. Speaker – Martin Kulov (that’s me :)).
13:30 – 14:30 - Break
14:30 – 16:00 – Architecture of scalable, robust and secure database systems with MS SQL Server 2005. Speaker – Branimir Guirov

Here is the official link about the event (VS 2005, MS SQL 2005 & BizTalk Server 2005 Launch).

See you there :)
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:17 PM |

If you are working for a Bulgarian company chances that you missed this year’s PDC are big :)))). But for of us here is the location (PDC05 videos) where you can find all the presentation including video sessions. Enjoy :)
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:15 AM |

Next week is the launch of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. It is pretty tense these days because a lot of demonstrations should be prepared along with the appropriate demos. My next three weeks calendar is full of training events and hopefully a lot of fun meeting all these people.
If you are desperately looking to see me I will be primary at local universities around the country and a major time I will also sent working with Microsoft Bulgaria, but I do not have a direct line there, yet :)
Almost to forgot. Please forgive me as I said it is pretty tense these days. This week we started training for our first group at National Academy of Software Development. The group consists of 7 people and almost all of them already have signed contracts with Bulgarian software companies to start work with, after they complete the three months course. The major goal for the Academy is to give a chance for smart guys that did not have a chance to get into the software industry, to learn and make a huge progress in their career. Also the course is even appropriate for professionals with knowledge on obsolete technologies that need to upgrade and thus be more competitive on the market.
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 1:11 AM |