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I have been invited to talk at BASTA! Spring 2008 edition between 25-29 February 2008. I am going to talk about what testing tools are available in Visual Studio 2008 compared in different editions and how to use these tools in real life production enviroment.

My session is part of the special VSTS day at BASTA!.

Other speakers that I would love to meet again are Hadi Hariri, Dino Esposito and meet for the first time the fellow VSTS MVP Neno Loje.

Please, drop me an email if you plan to attend BASTA and we can have few beers there :)

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# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:09 AM |

I had a great time at the BASTA! conference in Mörfelden. This was the spring edition for BASTA! conference and there is also a September one. The German market is really huge and there are a lot of opportunities although the open source has significant presence.
The conference was about 3 days with 2 additional days for workshops and specialized tracks.
My session went pretty well and I learned a few things – when you present to non native English audience you have to schedule more time and talk slower. I am not a native English speaker, the Germans – also, so combined makes it a little bit hard to understand the presentation.
I did quite a good demo – I wish I had that already in my MSDN Webcast also.
I had the pleasure to meet Chad Z. Hower, Dino Esposito, Richard Hundhausen and many, many other nice guys.
Chad is very cool and entertaining guy with tons of speaking engagements on his back.
Whenever you have a chance – go to his sessions.
Great thanks to the BASTA team for the organization of the event!

btw: I am posting this from Chicago Airport. I will stuck here for about 8 hours :(

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# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:27 AM |

Recently I was invited to speak at BASTA!. My session is now approved so I am going to Frankfurt :) I will be speaking how to integrate Web and Performance Testing tools in Visual Studio Team Suite. I really like this session since it is level 300 or even 400. This is really the level where you can show advanced techniques for a technology and makes you spend endless nights in setting up and fine tuning the tools and enjoy that.

BASTA! is very similar to what we want to achieve with DevReach. The first issue of DevReach conference was awesome. My personal and Academy’s goal is that DevReach can have the same number of speakers and sessions as BASTA! in just couple of years. This will bring invaluable knowledge for the Bulgarian Software Developers.

I am really excited to speak at BASTA!. I hope we can see us there.

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# posted by Martin Kulov @ 1:10 AM |