- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on October 17, 2008
It was that time of year again - Microsoft Sinergija (Synergy). This time entitled "Where IT all comes together", MS Sinergija 2008 was tech event of the year. It lasted from 14.10. - 17.10. and had over 100 lectures held.
I had great pleasure to be one of the speakers with most lectures, and I held 5 lectures. Two of them were in IT Management track, and other 3 were technological. In one of them, I spoke together with my brother Nenad, who also had 5 tracks like me (we were the only ones speaking at 5 lectures).
This lectures are results of long time effort, but also of hard preparations before the conference. I received great feedback, both from people attending the conference, but also from other speakers who attended some of my lectures.
The lectures I held were (in order that they were held):
- Wednesday
- Domain Specific Development With VS 2008 (together with my brother Nenad)
- Agile Development with Team System
- Thursday
- Writing Maintainable and Robust Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Software Developers
- Visual Studio Team System 2008 Extensibility for Agile Project Management with SCRUM
- Friday
- Improving Code Performance with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Software Developers
At each lecture I gave presents: 3 books (Mostly Design Patterns from GoF and Refactoring from M. Fowler) and 2 Nike T-Shirts (one for men and one for women, courtesy of my company, DELTA SPORT). So in total 15 books and 10 T-Shirts. I am sorry I could not reward all the people who where involved in lectures, and will try to fix this next year.
You can see some feedback (with focus on my Agile lecture) at http://horizontblog.com/?p=171
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on October 17, 2007
This year I will be one of speakers at Sinergija 2007 (Synergy 2007).
Sinergija is Microsoft annual conference about new technologies. I am only speaker that is comming neither from Microsoft, neither from company that is Microsoft partner, and neither from company that is primarily IT oriented.
I will be holding 3 tracks:
- Design Patterns with Visual Studio 2008
- WCF Improvements in Visual Studio 2008
- Refactoring to Patterns with Visual Studio 2008
My company (DELTA SPORT) has provided nice Nike+ T-Shirts for prizes.
See you there.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on July 6, 2007
Last week I started running with NIKE+ system. It consists of pair of Nike+ shoes (similar to ones on the picture), Nike+ Kit and an iPod. The kit contains a small chip inserted into the Nike+ shoe and a receiver inserted into iPod. 
Then you run. While running and listening to your favorite music, you get the real time notification on your running progress. You track the real time distance and an average pace, and you get data about calories burnt and total time spent after your workout.
And, the best thing about it, Nike has created an excellent website (Nike+) where you can upload your results and challenge your friends in different competitions.
Since I am an amateur runner, when you use this system, you get the feeling like you can run your heart out. And you can define your "power song", and use it when you need special surge of energy for that most difficult meters ahead.
As one of the Nike T-Shirts says: "Log out, shut down, go run" (if you want to run with me, my Nike+ username is BojanJovicic).