Tomislav Bronzin [RD&MVP]

MVP's in action: How to provide mentor's, education and internship for IT pupils and students?

I am very happy to announce that I have been invited to deliver lecture at Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Banja Luka to students about the possibility to have summer internship, education and mentors for their first "real" IT projects! This project is part of the USAID "Partnership in Innovation" initiative and it will be implemented by Innovation Center Banja Luka, with other public and private partners like Microsoft, Lanaco, etc. (more below in the poster designed by Microsoft Student Partner Nikola Cupic from Banja Luka).

This kind of internship is something "regular" in western world, but it is still "exception" for the South Eastern Europe Countries.

Ii actually connects pupils/students, companies and schools/Universities to provide so needed experience and complimentary education that is based on the cutting edge technology and so-much needed skills like team work, problem solving, project management etc.

Part of the technical part of the program will be supported and delivered by experienced IT experts, some of them Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP's).

I would like to say thank you to people that helped to organize this lecture:

a) Radenko Zec, Microsoft MVP and INETA User Group Leader of Developers.ba in Banja Luka
b) Jelena Miodragovic, Microsoft Student Partner
c) Nikola Cupic, Microsoft Student Partner

High Schools in Banja Luka, Faculties in Banja Luka and other partners!

Also, we will provide live broadcasting of meeting using Microsoft Live Meeting!

It was great WinDays 2012 Conference!

I have been whole week in Rovinj @ WinDays 2012 Conference, speaking, networking and enjoying to meet old and some new friends!

Also, I have received an award as WinDays Speaker, as well as Conference Content Expert my colleagues MVP's and me has been acknowledged by Microsoft at Keynote session.

We have organized Community dinner ("Sea Rapshody") at our own, and more then 50 people attended this dinner.

Several pictures with descriptions are here:

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!

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

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

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

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.

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:

We offered 12 very valuable prizes for attendies, like Windows Phone 7 :-), Samsung LED television, etc.

See you next year!

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 my Dev Team: we have received Gold Medal at 13th Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovation Technologies "ARCHIMEDES - 2010"

If you need more info, read here:

http://eng.archimedes.ru/news.php?Y=10&M=04&D=07

And here in Croatian
http://hgd.mvpei.hr/novosti.aspx?id=55&newsId=5742
http://www.hrt.hr/index.php?id=48&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=68951&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=23&cHash=2fd9bb216c
http://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/gospodarstvo/hrvatski-inovatori-dobili-arhimeda-u-moskvi.html
http://www.novilist.hr/2010/04/12/zlato-lukanovicu-i-vrsalovicu-sr.aspx
http://www.savez-inovatora-zagreba.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125:arhimed-2010-rezultati&catid=43:rezultati

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