http://www.nakov.com/blog Thoughts on Software Engineering Thu, 15 May 2008 22:23:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this article I will focus on buiding the data access layer in ASP.NET 3.5 Web applications with LINQ to SQL and SQL Server. Lots of articles introduce the LINQ technology, the LINQ to SQL object-relational mapping technology and ASP.NET 3.5 so I will skips these introduction and will explain the main ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2008/05/16/building-data-driven-applications-with-linq-to-sql-and-aspnet/ I gave two talks at the Microsoft Days 2008 in InterExpo Center Sofia on 24 and 25 April: What is New in ASP.NET 3.5? This session focused on the exiting recently introduced features and technologies in ASP.NET 3.5. Starting from ASP.NET and LINQ integration and ASP.NET dynamic data, the I went through the new ASP.NET ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2008/04/28/my-talks-microsoft-days-2008-in-sofia/ Last month I was invited by Microsoft to an interview in their largest european development center in Dublin. It was exciting trip and real challenge to see the Microsoft development live. I was excited of their professionalism in all directions: Professional organization - phone interviews, invitation, flight, accomodation, etc. Nearly perfect development process ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2008/03/15/rejected-a-program-manager-position-at-microsoft-dublin-my-successful-interview-at-microsoft/ The Java team won the second IT Boxing match on Web technologies on 6 March 2008 in Sofia. The battle was merciless: 24 contestants in 4 teams (.NET, Java, PHP and Ruby) fighted for proving their technology better in 9 technical talks with live demonstrations. The teams presented ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2008/03/08/java-won-the-it-boxing-match-on-web-technologies-aspnet-vs-java-vs-php-vs-ruby/ The topic of this event is “Web Development Technologies: ASP.NET vs. Java & JSF vs. PHP vs. Ruby”. The .NET team will present the ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and the new ASP.NET extensions in .NET Framework 3.5. The Java team will stand up for JavaServer Faces (JSF), Google Web ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2008/02/26/aspnet-vs-php-vs-java-web-frameworks-vs-ruby-on-rails-6-march-2008-park-hotel-%e2%80%9cmoscow%e2%80%9d-sofia/ With a few collagues I teach a course in Design Patterns in Sofia University for the summer semester of 2007/2008. We will cover the classical GoF patterns (creational, functional and behavioral) and as well as some additional topics like architectural patterns (like MVC). Our curriculum is based on the classical book ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2008/02/06/design-patterns-course-sofia-univeristy/ The next IT Boxing event is coming. The date is 6 March 2008. TThe venue is the same: Sofia, Park-hotel Moscow. The topic is "Web technologies" and the team will present the hottest Web technologies from .NET, Java and PHP. Talks will be split into short sessions (20 minutes) and the ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2008/01/30/next-it-boxing-is-comming-web-technologies-aspnet-jsf-php/ My Interview at Google in Zurich A week ago I visited Google in Zurich, Switzerland. The reason: during the years their recruiters asked me once monthy to join Google. I had so much invitations to join Google in Mountain View, Zurich and other locations that I finally decided to see at ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2007/12/27/overqualified-to-work-in-google/ Never use GoDaddy! GoDaddy are cheaters! A year ago I needed to purchase hosting services for hosting few domains and emails. In the adveertisment it was said that GoDaddy supports anything I need (hosting emails, web, subdomains, enough traffic and hosting space) but it was misleading advertisment. GoDaddy is a fraud!!! Here are ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2007/12/27/never-use-godaddy-services/ The "IT Boxing" Visited by 250 Developers! On 11 December 2007 I organized the largest event of the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD). It was held in Sofia and was visited by 250 software engineers and thus BASD was proved to be #1 community organization in Bulgaria. The subject of this ... http://www.nakov.com/blog/2007/12/12/the-net-team-won-the-first-it-boxing-match-adonetlinq-vs-hibernate-and-jpa/