A book is born!!!

As most of you know, I was involved in writing a book about C# programming (we were 30 authors, each had to write a chapter and edit a chapter).You can click on its cover in order to be taken to download the PDF version:

Hope you will enjoy it.

Oh, almost forgot – it is in BULGARIAN . There were some plans to have it translated but as I am not a part of telerik anymore, I don’t have any information from the kitchen how far this project went.

Please be sure to say a great thanks to telerik for sponsoring this book!

It's time to vote again!

It is again time to vote for your best tools in the software development.
Don't waste time, showing some love to one vendor or another will help that vendor push harder in the right direction.

So click on the image and show some love to your favorite vendor.

Cool MCP business card builder site

I've build a simple business card for me at :
https://www.mcpvirtualbusinesscard.com/VBCServer/b087303c-09bf-4832-9269-83483d5c2d35/profile

You can do this also. It takes 2-3 minutes.

Meet the first web server in the world! ... and the first release for this year ;)

I was browsing wikipedia to see some physical thinks about CERN and accidently found this image:



According to wikipedia this is the first web server, that sir Tim Berners Lee used in CERN when he invented the HTML to allow physisists to exchange scientific information.

Isn't this exciting?

From that server it started to end up here:


And this is not the end.
This is just the beginning.

How far can we go?
As I said, I think this is just the beginning.
We have the passion to achieve more.
We have the strength to achieve more.
That is why we do achieve more.

Push yourslef to the max,
don't worry about the controls, leave them to us :).

Take a time to watch those things. The future is comming ...

I can't hide that I am very excited about what's happening with the technology.
About one year ago (maybe a bit more) I found an open source project called Touchless SDK you can find the post and the video (here).

I played a bit with the SDK back then and managed to do some trivial tasks - move my cursor with fingers, rotate an Open GL 3D globe etc.

I had some great ideas about this, yet I didn't have time to try to implement them.
Yesterday I was browsing to see if there are some TED Talks I haven't already watched and found this one (two parts):

Part 1:


Part 2:



I think that this technology is not yet implemented as it is shown in the video. My guess is that guy has some of it implemented and some of it - not yet. Anyway it seems very promising.

Hope you like it!

Do it worse!

Here is a very interesting blog post a collegue of mine accidently found and posted to me:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Utlimate-State-Selector.aspx

It is PHP but a regular web developer (even being ASP.NET developer) would realise the problem and the great mind behind this code :).

Lesson learned - your code is great as there can always be a worse solution :).

Have you tried the Windows 7 God mode?

I did and it really exists :D

In order to try it:

1. Create new folder under Windows 7
2. Name it : "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" (without the quotes).
3. The folder will change its icon, double click it ...


Source : CNet

My chapter in the C# book is almost done!

I am about 80% ready with the first chapter of the book "Introduction to programming with C#" (this one was assigned to me on the initial meeting).
Lot's of things borrowed from the Java version of the book, still lot of things are new.

In the first chapter I teach the reader what he / she needs in order to create a simple console application.

Both ways are shown - using simple text editor (notepad in our case) and csc and using Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition (as being free for students).

I will mention #Develop. How to debug is also mentioned in the book.
I will soon (probably today) include some information about the .NET Reflector.


Wish me luck!

2012 and some other stuff

I just couldn't resist to take a few minutes of my time and post this picture just to make you stop working for a minute or two :D

I accidently found this picture:



It is kind of mix of Y2K problem but for the next "end of the world" :).



You can take a look at http://bizarrocomic.blogspot.com/, you may find some more funny pics.

Good night :)

Nice little tool to help me with twitter.

I created a small twitter software what it does is to check each hour if I am listening to Winamp, get the song if possible and write it in twitter for me and the people who are eventually interested in what I am listening.
Here is the deal:



You can download it from here:
TWamp - Nice little twitter software

You can follow me on twitter from the following url:
My twitter profile

Please note: TWamp isn't very user friendly. You need to get along with it in order to use it ;).

Nice game for software developers :)

Some of you may remember the CRobots game. It is a game in which you program your own robot (in C) and put it to fight against other robots. This game is available in 3D variant and I think it may be very userful to improve your programming skills. Try it from here: http://antru.ru/crobots3d/ I also built my own robot, I named it Kamikadze because all it does is to spin around and shout itself :D Documentation can be found here: http://crobots.deepthought.it/html/manual.html#8 Happy playing!

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Interesting Apple Ad

Recently I came across this link. It's amazing how creative the Apple marketing team is and how they exploit the Apple vs. MS war. Have fun :)

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