5. veljača 2010 0:28

MIX: Inspire the world with just 10K! - Entries are accepted till February 15th

Recently, I was talking about "good old days" and how I wrote my first (successful) application in only 8K (8086 assembler), just to be worn that "this is too much" for those days PC's.And then I found out that 10K max rule still apply: http://mix10k.visitmix.com/

So, if you think that you are up-to the challenge, create your application and upload it here: http://mix10k.visitmix.com/Entry/Create

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31. siječanj 2010 20:52

Protect@Work - certified Win7 app that uses WPF, WCF, .NET, VIsual Studio 2010 - But where is business case? Watch it here ...

My team was busy: we have received 1 Gold Medal, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze medal for innovation at international Innovation Show's; we have certified Protect@Work for Windows 7 Logo, utilized WPF, WCF, .NET and has been built using Visual Studio 2010.But, what about business case that Protect@Work solution is designed for? How this application can help companies to reduce cost of protection of workers in dangerous industries? Can this solution help companies to be more productive too? Of course, the answer is YES IT CAN :-)!

If you know Croatian, you can watch an interview authored by Jasmina Franjic from Croatian National Television about Protect@Work: http://www.youtube.com/v/bBWpLlqJNfo&hl=en_US&fs=1&

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31. siječanj 2010 11:41

Registration for Developers Bootcamp in Zagreb open! (in Croatian)

If you would like to participate at Developers Bootcamp in Zagreb (February 22.-26.) you can register here: http://bit.ly/bwNlXE.

This is the first trening in Croatia (maybe also in CEE) that has following topics:
a) Visual  Studio 2010 Beta 2
b) .NET Framwork 4.0 (WPF, WCF, WF, ASP.NET, C# & VB)
c) Silverlight 4.0
d) Windows Mobile 6.5
e) Office 2010
f) Microsoft Solution Framework

More info (in English) here: www.developersbootcamp.com

If you would like to invite us to your town/country - we are ready to come!

Who we are?

1. Tomislav Bronzin, Regional Director, MVP & MCT
2. Andrej Radinger, MVP & MCT
3. Dobriša Adamec, MVP
4. Vedran Kaldi, MCT

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29. siječanj 2010 9:37

"Developers Bootcamp": Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Fx 4, Zagreb, February 22.-26.2010

Developers Bootcamp is a 5-day intensive training which introduces attendees to technologies, news and tools supported in new development environment as well as project methodology MSF.

Every session consists of theoretical introduction, followed by demos and examples, and concluded with hands-on labs on attendee’s workstations. All HOLs are supervised by Bootcamp trainers.

Last day of Bootcamp, attendees will be divided into several functional team sand each team will have a specific task within a large project. Final result/delivery of all teams will be a solution created by Visual Studio 2010, following MSF methodology.

Date: February, 22.- February 26. 2010.
Duration: 5 days, 9:00 - 17:00
Early Bird: 30% discount until February 10. 2010

Location: Development Agency Zagreb, Croatia

No of participants: 10 
Event scope: CEE/SEE Europe
Target audience: Developers, solution architects, system analysts.

NEW DISCOUNTED PRICE!
Price includes: access to the training.

Special 30% discount on Early Bird offer for members of INETA Europe User Groups!

Learn more h e r e (http://www.developersbootcamp.com/)

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18. prosinac 2009 18:16

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Launch posponed!

Two top Microsoft Developer Division Executives: Scott Guthrie and “Soma” Somasegar - announced today (December 12) that official launch of Microsoft flagship development tool Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 platform will be moved from March 22 further and that Microsoft is planing to extend the beta period by adding another interim checkpoint release, a Release Candidate with a broad “go live” license, which will be publicly available in the February 2010 timeframe.

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9. studeni 2009 0:08

I and my friends are speaking at TechEd Europe in Berlin: Wednesday 11/11 | 13:30-14:45 | Paris 1 - Hall 7-1c

Microsoft Regional Directors  Microsoft MVP  MCT  INETA Europe 

I will be at TechEd Europe till Friday, and I will deliver following session:

CLI308 Windows 7 Taskbar: New User Interface for Your Application
Wed 11/11 | 13:30-14:45 | Paris 1 - Hall 7-1c

Session summary:
Windows 7 Taskbar is great new addition to the Windows user interface that replaces Quick Launch and Traybar from the previous versions of the Windows OS. Usually operating system API is accessed by native code, but we show how you can use managed code wrappers like Windows Vista Bridge or Window 7 Interoperability Pack to access it directly from the .NET language. Learn how you can manipulate Taskbar buttons and application ID, create jump lists, destination and tasks, integrate thumbnail toolbars, add overlay icons and progress icons, create custom thumbnail and peak and build custom switchers (MDI/TDI).

Also, I invite you to attend sessions that will be delivered by my good friend and Mobile Dev Expert, MVP Andrej Radinger:

MOB303 Adding Life and Intelligence to Windows Mobile 6.5 Applications
Mon 11/9 | 10:45-12:00 | New York 2 - Hall 7-1a
MOB04-IS Building and Integrating Mobile Solutions into Existing Microsoft Dynamics ERP Systems
Thu 11/12 | 15:15-16:30 | Interactive Theatre 4 - Green
MOB403 Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition Ultimate Performance Tuning
Wed 11/11 | 15:45-17:00 | New York 2 - Hall 7-1a

When we are not speaking, find as at Community Area! I will be at INETA Europe Booth/Pod (read here more: http://bit.ly/9hBOq), Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Booth/Pod, as well at TLC area of Windows Client Development!

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31. listopad 2009 1:42

Is Code Camp time around Europe!

And I am participating on one today (October 21) in Belgrade Serbia!

More info here: http://codecamp.msforge.net/

I will speak at the keynote of this event and I brought one of the legend of the Microsoft Community, first Microsoft Regional Director for Croatia: Arian Stipic!
Arian Stipic is a leged and he was my mentor, so I was pleased when he was invited to speak at this conference!
He was not just my teacher that has helped me enter magic wrold of development on Microsoft Platform, but also he guided me to become one of the Europen .NET Developers Community Leader.

Big thank you, Arian!

If someone asks me to explain what CodeCamp’s are, I always can quote my good friend and MVP Vladan Strigo: CodeCade is based on 6 principles:

  1. By and For the Developer Community
    Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community.
  2. Always Free
    Code Camps are always free for attendees.
  3. Community Developed Material
    The success of the Code Camps is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided completely (including code) without any restriction. If you have content you don't want to share or provide to attendees then the Code Camp is not the place for you.
  4. No Fluff only Code
    Code Camps are about showing the code. Refer to rule #1 if you have any questions on this.
  5. Community Ownership
    The most important element of the Code Camp is always the developer community. All are welcome to attend and speak and do so without expectation of payment or any other compensation other than their participation in the community.
  6. Never occur during work hours
    We need to understand that many times people can't leave work for a day or two to attend training or even seminars. The beauty of the Code Camp is that they always occur on weekends

 

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20. listopad 2009 2:53

Microsoft Vizija, Skopje, FYR Macedonia

I and several other MVP's, speakers and trainers had great time at Microsoft Vizija that was held from October 8th to October 9th.

I had two sessions:

Title: Windows 7 Taskbar - new User Interface for Your Application
Windows 7 Taskbar is great new addition to the Windows user interface that replaces Quick Launch and Traybar from the previous versions of the Windows OS. Usually operating system API is accessed by native code, but we will show how developers can use managed code wrappers like Windows Vista Bridge or Window 7 Interoperability Pack to access it directly from the .NET language. This session will show how developers can manipulate Taskbar buttons and application ID, create jump lists, destination and tasks, integrate thumbnail toolbars, add overlay icons and progress icons.

Title: Develop Application for Unified Communication Now!
What features are available to be used by ISV's to add to their applications by using Microsoft UC platform? How to integrate IM, voice, video and e-mail into your applications? What are possible implementation scenarios and examples of Unified Communication capabilities in Smart Clients and Web applications, as well as service/bot's? How you can do it with just few lines of code? Attend this session and find the answers! All samples will have demos with code!

View here: presentations from tbronzin.

There were more than 500 attendees that attended one of the 3 parallel tracks: IT Pro, Development and Solutions. Also, each night there were opportunities for networking on great parties that was organized by Microsoft.

I want to say big THANK YOU to the organizers (Microsoft Office in Skopje, Microsoft Community, INETA Europe Chapter FYR Macedonia, PASS, Culminis/GITCA) and all MVP's that was very pleasant and showed great hospitality!
Thank you to MVP's: Daniel Joskovski, Vladimir Meloski, Aleksandar Talev, Boban Stojanovski, Community Leaders: Dejan Dimitrovski, Dejan Anevski and all others...!

I would go to this conference anytime! See you there next year!

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19. listopad 2009 23:47

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Released to MSDN Subscribers!

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is finally here!

Not only that Microsoft published Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to the MSDN Subscribers, but there are separate installation of Team Foundation Server 2010 and .NET Framework for different platform flavors!

What is new in Visual Studio 2010?
Some of the new features are Windows 7 and SharePoint 2010 tools, drag-and-drop bindings with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation, the inclusion of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) for programming with scripting languages, and support for parallel programming.

How to get familiar with the new features of Visual Studio?
The best way is to go through the published collection of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Walkthroughs:

  • SharePoint Development
  • Silverlight and WPF Data Binding
  • Core Coding Experience
  • Native Development
  • Parallel Computing
  • Visual Studio Extensibility
  • Office Development
  • Workflow Foundation

So, what is the answer to the question: should I install these bits in my production environment?
Answer is - depends, of course how „brave" you are J, but if you are up-to, this time Microsoft prepared everything to make you happy user:

How to install Visual Studio 2010?
Good start with Visual Studio 2010 is here http://bit.ly/2ayz1p where Brian Keller explains in short (19 min) video how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and gives a lot of useful links, among them to VHD Windows Server 2008 image that you can use as a development and test "sandbox".

When these bits will be available to general public?
After October 21st, 2009

When Visual Studio 2010 release is planned?
Microsoft will announce Visual Studio 2010 that official launch will be on March 22.

I wish you happy and productive coding!

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14. rujan 2009 9:36

Windows Mobile 6.5 and Exchange 2010 presented at Mobility Day 2009 Conference!

Another (7th) annual Mobility Day Conference has been delivered on 10th September in Croatia by (among others experts) 8 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP’s) Andrej Radinger (organizer), Zeljka Knezovic, Andy Wigley, Damir Dobric, Dobrisa Adamec, Daniel Joskovski, Bernardin Katic and Tomislav Bronzin. Conference was opened by Microsoft Croatia General Manager: Venesa Schütz that delivered inspired talk about our “Mobile Life” and it was followed by keynote speech “Windows Mobile 6.5”, delivered by Andreas Garantziotis, Mobile Solutions Manager at Microsoft. Mobility Day Conference featured 18th sessions in 3 tracks: Business, Developers and ITPro and lasted one whole day. Some of the “other” experts included Sasa Juratovic (Program Manager in UC Customer Experience, Switzerland) and Dalibor Kukoleca (Senior Dev Lead OCG Media, Redmond, USA) that spoke about Mobile Office Communicator/Office Communication Server and Live Meeting Server. There was also excellent sessions delivered by Josip Medved (Siemens) (GEO location services) and Dragan Jelcic (Securly Deploying WM6.5) and Igor Pavlekovic (Exchange 2010 & WM6.5).If you are familiar with Croatian language you can register even now and watch recoded session and download presentations (here) or read more (in English) about the conference here: http://www.mobilitydays.com
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11. rujan 2009 9:29

Great success of Mobility Day 2009 Conference! (in Croatian)

Mobility Day konferencija predstavila nove mobilne tehnologije i rješenja za suvremeno poslovanje

Uz novi operacijski sustav za mobilne uređaje Windows Mobile 6.5 i Exchange 2010 poslužiteljsku infrastrukturu, na konferenciji su predstavljena i rješenja mobilne zaštite na radu te napredni sustavi za upravljanje transportom i logistikom. ZAGREB, 10. rujna 2009. – Ovogodišnji Dan mobilnih tehnologija – Mobility Day 2009 – okupio je vodeće donosioce odluka i IT profesionalce koji su imali prilike sudjelovati na predavanjima o poslovnoj vrijednostI korištenja mobilnih tehnologija u svakodnevnom životu i poslovanju. U organizaciji tvrtki Citus i Mobendo konferencija se etablirala kao najveće okupljanje takve vrste u regiji Središnje i istočne Europe, a koje je istovremeno orijentirano kako na poslovni tako i na  tehnološki okvir tematike mobilnih tehnologija i poslovanja. Naglasak ovogodišnje konferencije bio je na Windows Mobile 6.5 operacijskom sustavu te najavljenom objavljivanju novog poslužiteljskog sustava Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Također, jedna od odrednica ovogodišnje konferencije bila je tema o podršci za razvoj mobilnih rješenja u sklopu Visual Studio 2008 razvojne okoline. Ova je konferencija bila iznimno zanimljiva i programerima te razvojnim inženjerima mobilnih tehnologija, obzirom kako je dio konferencije konkretno pokazao kako vlastite proizvode uklopiti u potrebe i potražnju te ih na taj način distribuirati i učiniti konkurentnima na tržištu.

Nakon pozdravnog govora kojim je direktorica Microsofta Hrvatska, Venesa Schütz, otvorila konferenciju, uvodno predavanje o trenutačnoj situaciji i planovima razvoja mobilnih platformi održao je Microsoftov Mobile Solutions Manager za Centralnu i Istočnu Europu, Andreas Garantziotis.

"Predstavljanje nove Windows Mobile platforme najveća je novost u povijesti Microsoftovog rada na mobilnim tehnologijama. Do sada su se mobilna rješenja uglavnom vezala uz poslovne uređaje i korisnike. No, novim se sustavom usredotočujemo na ljude, na njihova iskustva i emocije – na posao, ali jednako tako i na druge aspekte života. Microsoftov je konačni cilj da se mobilnim tehnologijama i sadržajima mogu doista koristiti svi, u svako vrijeme", naglasio je Garantziotis.

U predavanjima koja su uslijedila u tri zasebna smjera – za razvojne inženjere, IT profesionalce i poslovne menadžere – brojni domaći i strani ICT stručnjaci govorili su o novim rješenjima iz područja mobilnih tehnologija. Uz prijenosne tipkovnice te sustave digitalnih olovaka i zaslona osjetljivih na dodir, predstavljeni su i noviteti za interakciju između korisnika i mobilnih uređaja – akcelerometri za utvrđivanje kretanja uređaja u okolini, sustavi upravljanja pokretom te detektori svjetla. Na konferenciji su također predstavljena i brojna rješenja za automatizaciju transporta i logistike s naglaskom na uporabu mobilnih računala i opreme za automatsko prikupljanje podataka.

Sudionici su u poslovnom dijelu konferencije (Business Track) imali prilike čuti predavanja o mobilnim rješenjima, mobilnoj zaštiti na radu kao i primjere studija slučaja primjene mobilnosti u svakodnevnom poslovanju. Dio konferencije za razvojne inženjere (Development Track) obuhvatio je prezentaciju najboljih praksi u razvoju korisničkih sučelja i primjeni Windows Mobile 6.5 operacijskog sustava. Dio konferencije namijenjen IT stručnjacima (IT Pro Track) uključio je, između ostaloga, predavanja o distribuciji mobilnih poruka i sadržaja (Mobile Messaging), SQL poslužiteljima i Exchange platformi, kao i novim aplikacijama i sustavima za Windows Mobile 6.5 operacijski sustav.

"Drago nam je što smo u suradnji s partnerima tijekom proteklih godina uspješno izgradili Mobility Day u trajnu i relevantnu konferenciju o mobilnim tehnologijama. Uz stručnjake iz zemlje i bliže regije, svake godine na konferenciji sudjeluju i eminentni predavači iz svijeta, što polaznicima u konačnici osigurava dodatnu vrijednost i potpuniji uvid u proces razvoja suvremenih mobilnih tehnologija i rješenja. Jedno od takvih rješenja je i Windows Mobile 6.5 platforma koja će se na tržištu pojaviti početkom idućeg mjeseca, a na koju smo ove godine u sklopu konferencije stavili poseban naglasak", istaknuo je Andrej Radinger, direktor tvrtke Mobendo.

Posebna zanimljivost ovogodišnje konferencije bila je i predstavljanje specijaliziranog „IT namještaja“. S obzirom na to kako su proporcije i karakteristike namještaja za IT opremu standardizirani na svjetskoj razini, na konferenciji se mogao vidjeti i iskušati asortiman upravo takve specijalizirane garniture koja je u potpunosti usklađena s najvišim standardima funkcionalnosti, ergonomije i sigurnosti. Organizatori su ove godine uveli i još jednu novost – mogućnost praćenja konferencije putem Interneta, čime se svima zainteresiranima koji nisu bili u mogućnosti osobno prisustvovati događaju osigurao uvid u sadržaj predavanja i neophodne materijale.

Generalni pokrovitelj konferencije je tvrtka T-Mobile. Glavni sponzori su tvrtke infoKod, Selmet, Špica Sustavi, FatDUX i Hotel Antunović. Sponzori konferencije su tvrtke Algebra, posao.hr, Span, Hewlett-Packard i Inkea, dok su medijski pokrovitelji IT-infoNEWS i mjesečnik infoTrend.  Konferencija se održala uz podršku Microsofta i Međunarodnog  .NET udruženja (INETA).

Više informacija o konferenciji i njenom sadržaju pogledajte na web adresi www.mobilityday.com.

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8. rujan 2009 9:28

... "Waiting for Godot" - or by the real name Windows Mobile 7

(Samuel Becket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot) 

I am passionate user of the Windows Mobile devices, but recently, I had oportunity to use iPhone, so I have something to say on that subject:

In the mean time iPhone 3GS is coming, but HTC Hero and Samsung Omnia HD (WM 6.5) are very, very close to the "consumer" experience of iPhone. On the other hand, iPhone is lacking the "Pro" experience like: real good Outlook Mobile support on WM platform - for example: you cannot even put High priority on the message, or folders in mailbox are always collapsed, you cannot edit word/excel documents.

In general, iPhone is making progress daily, for example with version 3.0 of OS it is supporting Copy&Paste (event this is BETTER on WM), MMS, sending contacts and Internet Tethering.

The last one is working great, but some of the Telecom providers are turning it off (which is not the case with WM).

One of the worst thing on iPhone (if you consider Enterprise market) is Custom Application deployment - it is only possible using AppStore, while you can choose your way with WM: you can deploy it directly - by using Active Sync, media card, or download CAB directly from the network drive / Internet.

Windows Mobile Marketplace is still limited to the small number of countries (we will talk about this at http://www.mobilitydays.com/ conference!) and there is problem with "paying for the test account" as my good friend Bernard Katic, MVP told me.

At the end: support for the car hands free is very, very limited in iPhone 3G and there is no support for voice initiated call (by pressing button on the steering wheel of the car) like there is on so many WM devices. I will follow-up when I receive iPhone 3GS, because it (should) have other very important things for me: shooting videos and voice dial.

Other things that are SO BAD done on iPhone are: lack of support for (usable) GPS applications and support for Microsoft Unified Communication platforms (Mobile Communicator) that is supported by WM. Even Skype is working better on WM, and this is because of multitasking (running more applications at once!) that is NOT working on iPhone.

I can add to the list of the bad things following: we have 9 iPhones in the company (so this is NOT isolated case): iPhone often "stops" working for a while (there is some kind of a glitch) and on several occasions (before OS v3) it needed to be hard reset to continue working. On 2 occasions we could not turn it off or reset it - we waited battery to run out - this never happened to me on any WM device!

Only if Windows Mobile 7 will be (better) in supporting multi-touch natural interface (we are expecting even better experience!) and do everything with larger fonts (screens) and support regular updates - Apple showed that IT IS POSSIBLE J and I am (in a second) back on WM platform!

If you are in Zagreb on September 10th, join me at www.mobilitydays.com conference and we can debate some more :-)

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30. kolovoz 2009 14:46

Article about Cloud Computing for Croatian Teachers (in Croatian)

I have been asked by my good colleague, professor Lidija Kralj, to write a article about Cloud Computing for teachers in Croatia.

This was very challenging for me for two reasons:

  • a) I needed to explain the concept and examples of cloud computing to people who are neither ICT experts or business people (the audience I am use to speak/write)
  • b) I needed to write it in Croatian (it is very hard for me to translate some of the ICT terms, especially the new one!)

But I did it and it is published here: http://tinyurl.com/tom-pil-cloud

I want to say thank you to Lidija and Zeljka that helped me with Croatian terminology!

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27. srpanj 2009 9:14

Windows 7 is (almost) here!

I am happy that Microsoft has stick to it's plan and Windows 7 was sent to RTM (Ready To Manufacture!).

MSDN subscribers, OVS customers and Microsoft partners will experience this (final) version soon, by downloading it, all other customers (including translation to all of the supported languages) will wait till October!

Great year for the Microsoft and it's users!

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15. lipanj 2009 9:33

KulenDayz Conference - Microsoft Community Regional Event of the year supported by INETA Europe!

KulenDayz Conference have finished yesterday!

Microsoft Community Osijek together with Microsoft Croatia with support from INETA Europe and HUPRO (Croatian Association of Computer Programmers) organized the regional community conference KulenDayz 2009. Conference brought togather more than 150 leading IT Experts from the region giving them a chance to spend a weekend filled with 18 attractive sessions presented by top speakers (among them 12 MVP's) and to relax in Kopacki Rit-Nature Park, enjoying unspoiled nature.

Keynote speakers were:
1. Opening Speach: Bernardin Katic and Dejan Vitner (MVP's and User Group Leaders from Osijek/Croatia)
2. Supporting IT Pro and Dev Communites and how MVP's are important: Rane Johnson-Stempson from Microsoft (CEE Regional Leader for Communites),
3. Windows Azure Platform: Tomislav Bronzin (Microsoft Regional Director for Croatia) and Dobriša Adamec (both MVP's and INETA Europe Vice Presidents)

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP's) that were speaking at event: Jose Luis Latorre Millas (Spain - also INETA Vice President), Matija Lah (Slovenia), Ivan Pavlovic (Serbia), Marc Gregoire (Belgium), Dejan Vitner, Bernardin Katić, Tomislav Bronzin, Dobriša Adamec, Vladan Strigo, Ivan Šaškor, Jerislav Bobic, Robert Petrunić (Croatia)

Prominent Speakers: Lorenzo Barbieri (Italy), Henk van Roest (The Netherlands), Janko Jovanović (Serbia), Radenko Zec (User Group Leader, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Vladimir Hluchy, Tomislav Piasevoli, Luka Gospodnetic, Dario Fruk, Nenad Trajkovski, Nenad Bestvina, Marin Franković, Ilija Brajković, Josip Medved (Croatia),

Agenda was presented here: http://kulendayz.mscommunity.net/Agenda/tabid/163/Default.aspx
Details about speakers: http://kulendayz.mscommunity.net/Speakers/tabid/158/Default.aspx

Presentations, demos and pictures will be published at KulenDayz Conference web site: http://kulendayz.mscommunity.net

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