Tomislav Bronzin [RD&MVP] : solutions, Development Platform

Mobility Bootcamp - November 26-30, Croatia

tbronzin — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:00:00 GMT

After successfully Mobility Day Conference My colleague Andrej Radinger, Mobile Devices MVP and I are preparing first in the row of Mobility Bootcamps.
We are planing to deliver several Mobility Bootcamps in Europe, starting from Croatia in November, then going around the Europe!

If you would like to hosting this training, contact me and we will discuss possibility!

In the mean time, check the web and following description of the 1. event in Croatia:

Bootcamp description

Description:
Mobility Bootcamp is intensive 5-day training, which teaches attendees technologies, news and tools supported in developing, deploying and maintaining mobile solutions and mobile devices in enterprise environment, as well as project methodology MSF.
Training lasts throughout the whole day, until late evening every day, with several hours of break and relaxing entertaining activities after lunch. Every session consists of theoretical introduction, followed by demos and examples, and concluded with hands-on labs on attendees’ workstations. All HOLs are supervised by bootcamp trainers. Last day of bootcamp, attendees will be divided into teams with 3-4 members each team. Each team will have a specific task within a large project, and the final result of all teams will be a solution created by Visual Studio 2005, following MSF methodology.

Target audience:
Solutions architects, software developers, system analysts and testers.

Why to attend?
After the training, attendees will have all necessary knowledge for developing and implementing mobile solutions. Also understanding of Exchange 2007 with mobile features is gained throughout the training. Training is also excellent preparation for passing new Microsoft exams related to mobility competency and achieving new certifications.

Prerequisites:
Training is not anticipated for total beginners. We expect certain previous knowledge and experience with application development:
• 6 months experience with .NET platform
• Relational database management system (RDBM) basics, like SQL Server
• Visual Basic and/or C# basics
Bootcamp is led by two experienced trainers and Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) Andrej Radinger and Tomislav Bronzin.

Price:
Take advantage of Early Bird, sign up for bootcamp before November 12, 2007 and save 15%: 2.100,00 € + VAT

Full price after November 12, 2007: 2.333,00 € + VAT

Price includes:
• Training fee
• All materials
• HOLs
• Windows Mobile 6.0 Device for each attendee
• 5 nights in hotel (unless asked otherwise by attendee)
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner for 5 days
• Additional entertaining activities (3 days)

Support OpenXML - Join "Voices for Innovation"

tbronzin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:39:00 GMT

This days I am witnessing several attempts to erase Open XML from the market by governments adopting misguided polices. I would never mind if Open XML would be just one of the standards (not the only standard) but I am against every attempt to adopt ONLY ONE standard that would favor only one platform. I think that file formats like Open XML, Open Document Format (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) should be able to openly compete.

So, I am calling you to support the movement in Microsoft Community for Open XML by joining "Voices for Innovation" Community by clicking on following button:

DevArena Conference - real developers in action

tbronzin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:15:00 GMT

Today I had an honor to speak on DevArena - conference organized by Ekobit. Of course, I was speaking about "Visual Studio 2008 - Orcas and Road Ahead".

Microsoft Sinergija - October 16-19, Novi Sad, Serbia

tbronzin — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:45:00 GMT

This is the largest Microsoft Conference in Serbia with 10 tracks and 100 speakers.

Among them, Andrej Radinger (Mobile Devices MVP) and I are having 5 sessions (in Wednesday and Thursday).

If you will be there - we will arrive in Tuesday evening - so if you are interested in Communities or technology, or you want to meet us - let us know!

More info: https://www.mssinergija.net/en/

Damir Tomicic - INETA Europe President - presented with Steve Ballmer on "Expression around the Clock"

tbronzin — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:37:00 GMT

I am super-excited that I can write here about once-a-life time oportunity that INETA Europe President Damir Tomicic had recently!

Damir (INETA Europe President, MVP i Microsoft Regional Director from Germany) was presenting at Steve Balmer keynote at Microsoft event called "Expression around the Clock".

This event was broadcasted online to 10 city worldwide: Auckland, Bangalore, Kairo, Mailand, Mexico City, Moskau, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Toronto i Zürich.

In his keynote, with the title "Designing the Next Era of Software", Steve Ballmer was talking about "how to combine great design and great code" and technologies like Microsoft Surface, Seadragon i PhotoSynth, but the central demo was delivered by Damir Tomicic from Axinom. His company developed solution for media company Premiere, specialised in distribution of Hollywood movies and sport for German speaking public.

He was showing how they developed Silverlight powered web site that alows Premiere to implement DRM and deliver high definition video across Internet.

Video recording of the keynote is available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/events-training/globalevent/player/Default.html?Zurich_SteveBallmer_Keynote_500k=Steve_Ballmer=Designing_the_Next_Era_of_Software

Some other links:

http://tomicic.de/CommentView,guid,1afbeda8-fc57-4303-bc9c-f3fd53392afd.aspx#commentstart

http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/10/steve-ballmer-t.html

Unified Communication - Live Meeting/Office Communication Server

tbronzin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:57:00 GMT

I had being using Live Meeting 2007 from Beta 1, today having more than 750 hours of using it and more I use it - I am more convinced that it is great platform for development of new and innovative applications.

I have several ideas how to use it, but I will share them with you when we decide what we will develop as a commercial product :-)
If you have idea and need support or advice - drop me a comment or e-mail and I will be more than happy to help you.

Unfortunatly, MSDN Live Meeting Development Portal is still supporting Live Meeting 2005/ Unified Communications Developer Portal supporting Live Communications Server 2005 - there is a small amount of Dev info for 2007!

Some of the info (mostly ITPro) can be found in following blogs:
1. http://mucuguk.org/blogs/microsoft_unified_communications_user_group_ap/archive/2007/08/30/174.aspx
2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/09/OCS/default.aspx
3. http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2007/08/23/unified-communications-launch.aspx

Join the SDK Beta: http://blogs.msdn.com/lmapi/default.aspx, but I could not make it work!