My interest in the computers began in 1990 when my cousin got the Commodore 64. I was spending days at his place playing Commando while he was listening to "Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins :)

During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) I bought the SHARP PC-1403 calculator on the local market. It had the small keyboard and BASIC interpreter and I wrote my first "few-liner" program on it. After the war I started learning DOS 6.22 on a 386 machine with 4 Megs of RAM and played with QBASIC + BATCH scripts. In 1997 I got the chance to harness "the power" of Pentium at 133 MHz with 16 MB RAM and Windows 95 installed, and my real programming journey was about to begin.

I started with Turbo Pascal 7.0, because it's ability to compile a "real" .exe (unlike the QBASIC interpreter) made me absolutely love it. Next natural step was to switch to Delphi, and it was the version 3. Later I moved to Delphi 5 and finally to Delphi 7. I also used various databases with Delphi: dBASE, Paradox, Access, Firebird - in order of appearance :). I was a BIG fan of Delphi, and I still am, but I'm not using it for new projects anymore.

In 2006 I started transition to .NET and C# with Microsoft Visual Studio. Ability to use same programming language, same libraries, and to apply same skills while developing desktop applications, as well as web applications, was really exciting. I fully embraced the whole .NET stack, from ADO.NET and Entity Framework, to WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC.

Currently I'm focused on business applications development on .NET platform, as well as development of geospatial solutions with Bing Maps API.

The other side of the coin

Although I always was very interested in software development, my official education focused on business and finances. I studied economics at university of Bihac and in 2003 began working as a purchaser in metal constructions manufacturing company. After short period of time I moved to another company to work as a Logistics Manager, and I also worked in sales department at the third company. I gained invaluable experience and had very good results in those companies but I didn't enjoy the job and my thoughts were always focused on software development. I was often programming small tools to help me do the job, and that was more fun than doing actual job using them :).

I also tried myself as a self-employed developer by developing an application and putting it on the market. I got over 50 clients in short period of time, but then I realized that I began to spend most of the time working with clients instead of adding features to the application and I didn't like that at all.

So, with my Delphi background, experience with Navision (as a user) and first-hand business and finance experience in various positions, I decided to apply for Navision Developer position at LogoSoft in Sarajevo. I got the job and started working on my birthday - January 29th, 2007. After successful completion of my first assignment - Developing the Payroll Add-On for MS Dynamics NAV - I got the permanent position in the company. Since then I'm doing development of new and customizations of existing MS Dynamics NAV features for LogoSoft's clients as my primary job.


However, C# and .NET are still my real passion and I'm working hard every day to improve my skills in that area.