- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on August 14, 2010
This year I was invited as a speaker in the Microsoft Dynamics area for the annual Microsoft conference Sinergija (Sinergy).
I have been a regular speaker at Sinergija since 2007 when I held 3 tracks, and I got to amazing 5 tracks in 2008, and then back to 3 tracks in 2009.
What was important in 2009 is that one of my associates held one track, and I am really proud of this, and even prouder because this year tracks of two of my associates have already been approved.
Information about me was published on front page of Sinergija's webs
ite and you can find full article in their lecturer series. They also published this on Sinergija's Facebook Page and in their Facebook lecturer album.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on March 14, 2010
After upgrading of my blog to BlogEngine.NET 1.6, I picked up a new version of source code and got my hands dirty with my modification to SocialBookmarks extension.
My primary goal was to add support for Google Buzz, using Google Reader sharing. I also did some refactoring (IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) better readability and increased maintainability with reduced code size by 1/3)), cleaned HTML a little, and worked on issue with images path, so you can now leave it blank.
Here is the complete file with all images (including Google Buzz and Facebook): SocialBookmarks v1.2.zip (104.31 kb). Just unzip it to directory where your BlogEngine.NET is installed.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on January 26, 2010
Today I upgraded my blog to BlogEngine.NET 1.5.
I installed some extensions. I added the extension for Social Bookmarking (http://www.dannydouglass.com/post/2008/01/15/Add-Social-Bookmarking-Links-To-Your-Blog.aspx). It was missing Facebook sharing functionality, so I made some modifications to it, and notified the author. I hope he includes Facebook support in new version.
I am attaching just the archive with changes (C# file and 2 images): SocialBookmarks Extension - Modification.zip (7.48 kb)
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on November 19, 2009
This year the Synergy (Sinergija) had two days of lectures, instead of three days like in previous years. I held three lectures this time:
- The Big Jump - From “Axapta 3.0” to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
- Scrum with Team Foundation System 2010
- Maintainable and Robust Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
I was pleased to see that this year we had foreign guests attending the lectures, including my lecture on Scrum that I held in English in the manner of a friendly host.
What I am most proud of, among my this year’s efforts concerning the Synergy is that my role as coach was crowned by the fact that I had trained one of my associates so that he was able to hold a lecture all on his own, after just a few words of introduction by myself.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on October 31, 2009
It was a great pleasure to hold the lecture on Agile Software Development with Visual Studio at first ever Serbian CodeCamp which was sponsored by INETA.
I was happy to be invited and glad to see that many people attended this event. I would emphasize that the wide variety of subjects that was covered by this lecture gave it a highly exciting scent.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on January 8, 2009
The end of the year 2008, brought the last number of InfoReview magazine for year 2008. This issue (number 6) amongst other articles featured the article "Software Engineering Evangelists", about my brother Nenad and myself. Also an article was published about the Discobolos ICT Awards, with one photo of me was published together with other winners, and one of Delta Sport team. Both my brother and I were very happy when we found out that an article will be published about us and our efforts in promoting software engineering. We had the opportunity to work with their photographer, which was a real nice experience, and you can see the results. InfoReview is very high quality magazine, in high quality press, with articles in both Serbian and English.
Below you can see some scans of pages mentioned. First row is from "Software Engineering Evangelists", with left photo in first row showing my brother Nenad and me, and right photo in first row showing Pexim team (upper) and Delta Sport team (lower). Second row is from Diskobolos article.
Update:
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on December 29, 2008
After successful presentation of our solution in the final round, I am happy to announce that Delta Sport has won the International ICT Award, Diskobolos (Discobolus) in services category.
The Diskobolos award is given by JISA (Union of ICT Societies of Serbia) for the best achievements in the usage of information and communication technologies in almost all fields of social and trade life. According to the jury votes, DS Retail - Delta Sport retail software was announced the best one in the Services category.
At the official ceremony in the Continental Hotel, on behalf of the company, I received the award. I am glad that I received good feedback about my presentation at finals and speech at award ceremony, since speaking from static stand was a new experience for me.
I would once again like to emphasize that this solution is result of work of the whole company, and it's long time know-how in retail, and to thank to all the people in company, and especially the ones that I mentioned in the post about our solution getting into finals.
Here are some photos from finals presentation (first row) and awards ceremony (second and third row).
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on December 11, 2008
As one of speakers at Microsoft Sinergija, I have been invited to participate at Sinergija@University. The idea of this manifestation is to bring the content from Microsoft Sinergija closer to university students, which are not usually tipical visitors of Sinergija conference. Since I am deeply involved with academia, I loved the idea, and gladly accepted. Here is the list of all things that are happening: http://msacademic.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C77D458057E160C9!131.entry
Today (11.12.2008), I will speak at Computer Science Faculty, Belgrade.
Tommorow (12.12.2008) at Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad.
At both events I will speak about Writing Maintainable and Robust Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Software Developers (there is an error in agenda).
Update: I had great audience at both session, and they were very involved. Here are some photos from the events (first row is Belgrade, second is Novi Sad):
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on December 9, 2008
I am very happy, because our (DELTA SPORT) software solution has entered final round for Diskobolos (Discobolus) International ICT Award in services category. I will be presenting our software solution tommorow (10.12.2008) at the Serbian Commerce Chamber, infront of DELTA SPORT.
You can read more about the Diskobolos prize at: http://www.jisa.rs/engleski/diskobolos/diskobolose.htm
This solution is results of work of whole company, and it's long time know-how in retail. The people that contributed most are my closest associates. Althought the team is very small, we are trying to maintain very high quality standards. We are focused on Scrum, and also use agile principles like continious integration, pair programming, etc. Our team is very flexibile, and we are using newest technologies. We try to find proper balance between generalization and specialization, and apply solutions like design patterns.
Here are the people that made the core of our Development team for this project (in order that they started working): Nemanja Vrndić, Marijana Šneperger, Milan Novaković, Ivana Gojković, Boris Tarana, Marko Mihajlović, Vladimir Dimitrić
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on November 18, 2008
On 25.11.2008 I will be speaking at .NET User Group meeting. During Microsoft Sinergija 2008 I have been asked to join it by one of its founders, and this Lecture will be an great opportunity to share experience and point most actual problems.
.NET User Group gathers people with strong professional background in Microsoft Technologies, but also people who focus on this field in their pastime. The attendance is free, and everyone is welcome to come and share their knowledge with others. The meeting is taking place at the Microsoft Office in Belgrade, and it will be in "chalk & talk" manner. My intention is to speak about Team Foundation Server, Scrum and Agile Software Development.
I am very glad that the interest in Scrum is slowly growing in my country, and that my effort as one of rare CSMs (Certified Scrum Master) is starting to show results. You can see my Certified Scrum Master profile at: http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/35118-bojan-jovicic
There is also a post about this meeting at Microsoft Forge (Web portal of Serbia .NET User Group): http://msforge.net/groups/dotnetugbgd/blog/archive/2008/11/18/novembarski-sastanak.aspx
Update: Since this was "chalk and talk" session, I used only flipchart and pen, and spoke about Agile Development with Scrum for 2.5 hours. The audience was very involved and I received great feedback after session. Here are some photos from the event: