Sport

I work for Microsoft now

David Vidmar — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:00:27 GMT

It’s been quiet around here and for a good reason. As I hinted before there has been many changes in my life recently. In same week I became father for second time (father of three boys now, twins and a new baby!), finally finished my engineer’s degree and finally, I joined the ranks of best company in the world to work for – Microsoft.

I’ll be working as I consultant for Biztalk Server and Forefront Identity Manager and from time to time a Dynamics CRM consultant.

So, what can you expect? Occasional dry stints, lots of BTS and FIM links, Windows Phone 7, Azure and Windows 8 and other cool Microsoft stuff.

If you are fellow Microsoftie, please look me up and drop me a note – let’s connect!

Site troubles

David Vidmar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:50:31 GMT

This site has been experiencing technical difficulties in last couple of days. As far as I can see, it’s been some hackers playground. Things are returning to normal.

Thank you all for your patience.

World Cup 2010 Schedule

David Vidmar — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:01:47 GMT

Watching one month of football is not an easy task. One should really plan it in order to enjoy it as much as possible. Here are ~~three~~ four totally different but usable resource for planning your football month!

Official Fifa World Cup 2010 Schedule on official Mundial web page.

Interactive World Cup 2010 Schedule is a Flash-based schedule. Must see!

Fantastic Excel FIFA World Cup 2010 planner. You will not believe it’s Excel! This on is for you, PeterK!

Import World Cup Schedule in Outlook Be sure to use “overlay mode” for World Cup calendar!

Bonus:

32 world cup nation wallpapers

via Smashing Magazine

Watch EURO 2008 live for free on your computer

David Vidmar — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:19:41 GMT

We all know football has low WAF. Having kids around doesn’t help either. So having a live stream on computer helps in this situations. Luckily, these days free TV is easy to find.

Start by going to some P2PTV portal like MyP2P.eu or WorldTvPc and search for live sports. Try to find a TV station with high bitrate, high rating and in language you understand.

Then, figure out which P2P video application you need. Most popular are TVU, TVants (translated) and SopCast. Download and enjoy!

Good choice for Euro 2008 is TVants and Croatian public TV station HRT.

All is not perfect, tough:

be sure to connect well before you plan to start watching as it can take several minutes before you get enough connections (this can be fixed on Vista and XP),
stream is also delayed for couple of seconds to half a minute,
I don’t know about other programs, but TVants has a band of Chinese ads on top and bottom of video window, but it’s not annoying,
picture will hand from time to time, and occasionally freeze, try reconnecting if it gets bad.

Warning: this is ~~probably~~ illegal, so it’s your responsibility if you step on someone toes.

Find great jobs and hire the best talent

David Vidmar — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:44:39 GMT

Users that actually visit vidmar.net site have probably noticed there has been job board embedded in this site. At first I tested the field with my own version of it, but that was later replace with a professional service Hidden network by Alex Papadimoulis, legendary MVP for MS Paint and author of The Daily WTF.

I believe this service on my blog will be of use for both job seekers and employers!

If you are looking for a new challenge, just browse jobs and subscribe to the feed. Just don't forget to report back when you get that dream job, ok?

If you are employer, you can post your jobs for free (international) or with a huge discount using these codes:

100OFF0712 - $100 discount ($199 for first listing)
200OFF0712 - $200 discount ($99 for first listing)
299OFF0712 - $299 discount (free first listing)
INTLFREE7 - free international (non US/CA) listings

When you apply, please enter my referral number 1159. Thank you!

Take a look at some others blogs that are part of Hidden Network:

Technorati tags: job, job ads, employment

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

David Vidmar — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:02:55 GMT

I just learned this phrase, and it's EXACTLY what Slovenian basketball team did in 1/4 finals of European Basketball Champs 2007. And then again. Or, as my friend would say, they did "like a cow, that just gave 30 liters of milk and then kicked a milk bucket".

I have to stop following sports, or I'll kick a bucket before I'm 40.

Another thing I learned tonight: It seems like kicking a bucket is not the same a kicking a bucket after milking.

Technorati tags: sport, basketball, defeat, do not repeat, slovenia

Mini Transat 2007

David Vidmar — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:57:02 GMT

It's happening again. Mini Transat 6.5 is about to start this Sunday. Andraž and Kristian are representing Slovenia and this time they are aiming for the top.

I'm quite proud that I did quite a bit of sailing with the guys before they turned pro. And their site is hosted at my server which makes me some kind of a sponsor, I guess.

So, thumbs up, boys!

Follow their progress, comments and predictions on 4ocean site.

Technorati tags: transat 2007, sport, sailing, Slovenia

Top Gear - Polar Challenge Special

David Vidmar — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:42:08 GMT

I don't care a lot about cars. But I love to watch Top Gear from BBC. Season 10 should start sometime this summer, but to make waiting easier, be sure to check out latest Top Gear Special.

This time crazy guys raced to (magnetic) North Pole. Jeremy and James sat in heavily modified Toyota Hilux and tried to drive where nobody drove before. Richard used dog powered sled.

The camera is, like always with Top Gear, superb.

In case you don't know the show, you can grab season 9 shows!

Slight TVvSPOREDnik update

David Vidmar — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:23:31 GMT

I received a email today, asking me when I'm going to get serious... Well, never I guess, but that's not a point.

I was rightfully accused of not being serious by a strange, since TVvSPOREDnik marked Croatian parliament session as "sport".

Sorry, Drago, my bad. Fixed immediately with a dedicated line of code!

World Cup software

David Vidmar — Mon, 29 May 2006 17:14:00 GMT

World Cup temperature is rising. I’m not in the real mood yet, but it starting to get really hot.

Without even looking I came access two Microsoft software title to help you satisfy your needs for news and stats.

First is Microsoft Football / Soccer Scoreboard. A free download from Microsoft that includes schedules, results stats and RSS news . It and looks alround nice. This just might be a keeper!

PeterK sent me a link to a SharePoint web part. Tam Tam WK 2006 is somwaht similar to abouve, but with extra twist. It can run a betting pool! Now that would be fun!

I haven’t tried it since I don’t have SharePoint portal around, so if you will install this baby, let me know how it works! You can even invite to the pool if your portal is public.

What have you found?