Saturday, June 7, 2014

Svetlin Nakov and his Software University to revolutionize IT education in Bulgaria

Who is Svetlin Nakov?

Svetlin Nakov has over 20 years of experience as a software engineer, project manager, consultant, trainer, and entrepreneur with rich experience with the .NET and Java EE platforms, information systems, databases, Web development and information security. 

He was the leading trainer in the successful project in Sofia, Bulgaria - Telerik software academy.

His main goal is to turn Bulgaria into the European Silicon Valley. 

Software University, Sofia 

Started at the beginning of 2014, www.softui.bg is uniting top educational approaches and technologies and this is not just an intention, but a real achievement. 

Everything is about programming and software development, even the entrance exam which is six hours of programming.

The best students will have the chance for an internship in companies like Facebook and Google. 

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Take control of your mind and thoughts!

Mind control
Mind control is not an easy task
Everyone is trying to get better productivity from himself, sometimes successfully. But may be everyone has this unpleasant feeling that he is far away from his potential.

А wisdom says that everything has been only a thought before its creation. In our personal and professional life this aphorism is more than practical. The will and motivation is coming from the same root - your mind. So if there is a way to organize and structure your mind better - exactly as you wanted, what more can you ask for? 

While surfing the news I spotted a list of sites that aims to help your productivity and organization. The one I chose and that inspired me to write this blog was workflowy.com . It has some interesting and useful options, which make it a lot better than just paper and a pen. You can zoom, concentrate and edit a particular object of your organization... and many more. If you don't know how to start, watch the video guide. Every video is about only 1-2 minutes.

Example of workflowy
An example of what you can do with Workflowy
You can click and zoom 
the big circles (which have sub
lists), so you will concentrate
entirely on a signle task if you want to.