I am Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) again (8 year in a row)!

After a long and frutefull year which included more than 86 lectures in 12 countries, community contribution, working with product group, doing a lot of development/SQL Server evangelism and community building within INETA Europe Board, I have been re-awarded to be an Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) again!

I would like to thank's to Communities and my collegues in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, .... hole Europe that provided me oportunity to share my knowledge!

Thank you Alessandro Teglia for his great support of MVP Communitiy as well as support of INETA and GITCA Communities!

Congratulations to all "old" and new MVP's, that (I hope that), once again I will meet many of "old" MVP's, as well as new MVP's at MVP Global Summit on late Fabruary in Redmond!

What a Year it was! 4 Gold Medals, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze for Innovation, "Golden kuna" award,

Year 2011 is almost finished, but I am still under impression that it passed as quickly as few minutes.

But it was so fruitful that I don't know where to start, so I will look at my calendar and try to summarize it like this:

We have long history of innovation in our company and we have been awarded for our products from 2005 till today, so in 2011 we have received following awards:
1. My team won 3 Gold Medals for Innovations in Software for our product Conference@Net (INPEX Pittsgurgh USA, ARCA Croatia, INOVA Croatia), 1 Silver medal (CIGIF KOREA), 1 Bronze medal (INST Taiwain)
2. Our product Innovation@Net has been announced as "The Best Croatian Showcase" at INOVA Croatia.
3. Our company CITUS won "Golden kuna" award, as a best small innovative company in Croatia-Zagreb region http://www.raza-tpz.hr/Default.aspx?sid=5239
4. We won award Croatian Quotient of Innovation Potential http://www.raza-tpz.hr/Default.aspx?sid=4827

We have been in media (on-line, paper, TV):
1. Poslovni Dnevnik & Jutarni List: http://www.raza-tpz.hr/Default.aspx?sid=5213

ASP.NET MVC3 & Web Camps

For those who did not (yet) look at the ASP.NET MVC programming model there is good news: trainers, Microsoft Regional Directors and MVP's are delivering series of WebCamps that brings newly developed content for developers to help them start with this "new" technology.

ASP.NET MVC 3 is a framework for developing Web applications that are very easy testable and maintainable, by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. This approach allow developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic using the view, user-input handling using the controller, and the domain logic using the model. Installation of their framework is available a package that includes templates and tools for Visual Studio 2010. ASP.NET MVC framework is built on ASP.NET 4, which means that developers can take advantage of existing ASP.NET features like authentication and authorization, profile settings, localization, and so on.

Web Camps are trainings that are suitable not just for the hard-core Microsoft developers, but also for the developers that have been using other platforms and tools. Also, it is possible to start developing using freely available tools like Visual Studio 2010 Express or WebMatrix.

After I have successfully delivered Web Camp in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am planning to deliver it again in Tuzla, but this time based on the recently announced new version of ASP.NET MVC3. Also, I am planing to deliver it in Croatia and other nearby countries as well, I will send notifications using this blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

More info about ASP.NET MVC, WebMatrix, Razor and WebCamps can be found here http://webcamps.ms/

Windows Phone 7 Series - is it able to compete with iPhone? (III)

(addition to my previous 2 articles):

After I have played with Windows Phone 7 (and being iPhone user for 3 generations of iPhone) I must say: I am impressed!

So impressed that I am developing Windows Phone 7 App, and I am not talking about that 2-day app's that most of the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace are offering, but a real, professionally produced application that will be using "cloud" services and be usefully to users :-)

I will try to produce serious of articles and training materials that will be used in events and workshops like www.mobilitybootcamp.com, www.mobilitydays.com and similar.

So take an eye on my blog :-)

I am Microsoft MVP once again! Happy New Year!

I received great New Year gift: I have been re-awarded to be an Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) again!

I would like to thank's to Communities and my collegues in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, .... hole Europe that provided me oportunity to share my knowledge!

Also, I would like to say big **thank you** to ALead: Alessandro Teglia for his great contribution to our MVP Communities as well to INETA and GITCA Communities!
Congratulations to all "old" and new MVP's Alessandro published at his blog: http://belead.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/microsoft-mvp-award-january-2011-awards/

I am especially very, very happy to see my long-term friend and collegue Catalin Gheorghiu, or by alias: MrSmesh from Romania is new MVP Device Application Development: http://itboard.ro/blogs/catalins_blog/archive/2011/01/02/acuma-pot-face-mai-mult.aspx

Congratulation!

I hope that (once again) I will meet many of "old" MVP's, as well as new MVP's at MVP Global Summit on late Fabruary in Redmond!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2011!

Dear friends and colleagues!

I wish you happy, successful and productive New Year and more time for your family and friends!

Tom

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INETA supported Open Community Track on Sinergija 10 and my 3 Breakout Sessions on Wednesday

I am going tomorrow (or is it today in the monitoring) to Belgrade to participate at INETA Europe supports Open Community Track on Sinergija 10 where a bunch of MVP's and other Community people will speak about technology to their peers.
 
INETA Europe Country Leader for Serbia, Ivan Pavlovic, published content of this track here: http://codecamp.msforge.net/CommunityTrack/
 
Microsoft Sinergija in Belgrade

TechEd Europe has finished, a lot of things to be said...

There are lot of things that needed to be said, but maybe I will touch only my good friend Dobrisa Adamec (ASP.NET MVP) BOF session about Windows Azure Scenarios.

More can be read here: http://live.mscommunity.net/blogs/dadamec/archive/2010/11/14/scenarios-for-windows-azure-teched-bof-session.aspx

TechEd Europe

Talking about SQL Server Compact Edition @DevReach

I have replaced Darron @DevReach in Sofia, on requst of my very good friend Martin Kulov, RD from Bulgaria.

Originaly, this session has been presented by Danijel Joskovski, MVP form Skopje at http://www.mobilitydays.com, and he was good enough to let me use his presentation and demos.

5th Aniversary of DevReach

MobiltyDay 2010 Conference has finished!

This year, Windows Phone 7 has been the main theme of the Conference, but we also introduced Samsung Bada and Symbian v3 sessions,and talked about iPhone and Android.

As usual, we had 3 tracks:

  • Business track is targeting IT managers, consultants and business decision makers. This track will cover values regarding implementation of mobile devices in everyday business with the overview of concrete examples from the business practice.
  • Development track is intended for software architects and developers with the prior knowledge and familiarity with Visual Studio environment. Sessions are going to be focused on the applicability of the existing knowledge regarding mobile solutions development. Of course, focus will be on Windows Phone 7, Silverlight and XNA.
  • ITPro track is here for architects and system engineers who are interested in learning more about integration with server products such are Exchange Server 2010, SQL Server 2008 and Office Communications Server. Also, sessions will target topics related to maintenance and mass implementation of mobile devices in business environment
  • We offered 12 very valuable prizes for attendies, like Windows Phone 7 :-), Samsung LED television, etc.

    See you next year!

    Mobility Day Conference

    Visual Studio 2010/ Fx 4.0 & Silverlight 4 Launched!

    I am very excited about new tool for developing applications on Microsoft platform as well as its usage in Windows Phone 7!

    Congratulation to new and renewed CEE MVP's!

    I would like to congratulation to new and renewed CEE MVP's in April 2010!

    Complete list of new MVP's can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/alead_msft/archive/2010/04/01/mvp-award-program-april-2010.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

    My special congratulations (ČESTITAM!) to my countryman: Vjekoslav Babić and Ilija Brajković

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    Imagine Cup 2010 Worldwide Finals - for the first time in CEE: Warsaw, Poland, July 3-8, 2010

    I have always been passionately involved in Imagine Cup student competition for several years now, either as a Mentor or a member of jury.

    Why? Because of opportunities that it opens for young enthusiasts in technology and the possibility to meet very bright and motivated people!

     

    This year "theme" is:  Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.” - you can read it more here: http://imaginecup.com/CompetitionsContent/MDG.aspx

     8 United Nations Millennium Development Goals:

    - hunger

    - universal primary education

    - gender equality

    - child protection

    - maternal health

    - combat HIV/AIDS/malaria etc.

    - environment

    - global partnership for development

    Students were invited to be part of the solution by providing suggestions how to solve those problems!

     

    Competition categories are:

    - Software Design

    - Embedded Development 

    - Game Design 

    - Digital Media

    - IT Challenge 

     

    In addition to Categories, every team can apply for an award.

    Awards for which student can compete are (http://imaginecup.com/CompetitionsContent/Competition/awards_at_a_glance.aspx):

    - ENVISIONING 2020 AWARD

    - INTERNET EXPLORER 8 AWARD

    - NEXT GENERATION WEB AWARD

    - TOUCH & TABLET ACCESSIBILITY AWARD

    - WINDOWS PHONE 7 SERIES "ROCKSTAR" AWARD

     

    I will finish by quote from Bill Gates, because it represents my opinion too:

    "I wish there had been an Imagine Cup when I was growing up. It gets people involved in seeing that software is changing the world."

    Please take the time to visit the official IC site: http://imaginecup.com/ 

    Future of Mobile Development: Silverlight for Symbian S60 Mobile Devices Released

    My good friend, Damir Tomicic, Microsoft Regional Director wrote an article in German (http://bit.ly/9HlwVW) when he come back from the MIX10 Conference in Las Vegas.

    Simply put, Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform subset of .NET Framework for building media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers and now is available for all Nokia S60 5th Edition devices: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, N97, N97 Mini, and S60 5th Edition SDK v1.0 Emulator.

    Developers can use C# and Silverlight 1 and Silverlight 2 (only XAML - no Javascript!).

    Please find resources here:

    Microsoft® Silverlight™ for Symbian – Beta Developer Tools
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8ea911cb-951c-47d8-a04b-682c76c42b67

    Microsoft® Silverlight™ for Symbian - Beta
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ce63ec61-2a49-4b4e-8900-ae5cd99d5aee 

    Getting Started with Sivlerlight for Symbian Beta
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=185371

    Silverlight for Symbian Platform Reference 
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=184637

     

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