CodeCamping near Sofia

Last Friday I was thinking - "I this weekend will be a very exciting one!" I did not realize then exactly how exciting it will actually be. I was one of the organizers of the premier CodeCamp event here in Bulgaria. Together with Stefan and Martin we took care for organizing the event willing to see will it be useful and if so make it a regular gathering.

The format of the event was something that we somehow managed to arrange perfectly - an informal lectures with a good mix of discussion from any kind. Gathering a bunch of people with different interest and tastes for technology actually allows for every one having some knowledge to share it. Martin wrote a good blog post discussing the subject that you can review to get a general view of the things :).

I must express my deepest gratitude towards the lectors that presented such interesting topics :

Emil Stoychev, Hristo Iliev, Ivaylo Bratoev, Vladimir Dimitrov and Peter Velichkov. Thanks guys! You were all awesome and I learned a lot of new things from you. I hope we will meet again and have such a fun again.

Despite the good lectures and useful discussions, there were a few drawbacks that we will take care to remove next time. I won't explain in details what were all lectures about. You will pretty soon be able to see them online and read the content.

Only one thing that's worth mentioning - if you or someone you know ever need to know how to start a diesel jeep after being 2 nights in a freezing cold with exhausted battery using a newspaper, don't hesitate to contact me I'll tell you the whole story ;),

ASP.NET 2.0 execution – how does ASP.NET developers life looks like

The Story

A long, long time ago Microsoft Bulgaria asked us (me and my colleague Stefan) to write an article that is for something concerning ASP.NET 2.0. We decided to take the challenge and write an article about ASP.NET 2.0 Execution process. Now, after .NET 3.5 release and just before the new wave of great ASP.NET 3.5 things start to come to the public (MVC, Astoria etc. – read more in the latest post of Scott Guthrie), I thought it is high time to give that “piece of art” to you all.

The thing

It was supposed to be published in some newspaper or magazine here in Bulgaria but we kind of forgot to follow when that happened or whether it happened at all. I guess they published it but even if they didn’t, I’ll do it J. So here you can find the document containing the article. Yes, I know … this is nothing new but for those of you that have just started with ASP.NET and for those of you with less experience in the field I think it will be quite helpful to read it. I can tell you from personal experience that a lot of troubles can be handled much faster and elegant if this kind of knowledge is available to ASP.NET developers. The article goes in great depths and explains a lot of details on the process of application execution – read it, benefit from it! The subject can hardly be explained as detailed as necessary in 11 pages but … You know, we had some limitations – magazines are not endless. One thing I would recommend you checkout is the Page lifecycle diagram that we have created – it is a modification of a well known one that we think can help you in day-to-day tasks.


P.S. If you think there are parts of the article that are unclear, can be improved or extended with more details … Please, feel free to comment or contact me to fill in the gaps.

P.P.S. For all English speaking guys …. Sorry for the Bulgaria text of the article – it was supposed to be for Bulgarian magazine and in future I may translate that to English – the good thing is that all diagrams are in English so you may catch the key concepts.