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January 24, 2020
Nikolay Kostov (Nikolay.IT)

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January 05, 2020
Nikolay Kostov (Nikolay.IT)

I was invited in the Bulgarian National Radio to talk about the technological trends in 2020. So I prepared this list and now I am sharing it with you.

What to expect in the technology world in 2020? Here is my list of the top 20 technologies for 2020 (not in any specific order):

5G data networks will start to expand
Autonomous driving will be closer and closer to level 4
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) will improve
Smart homes will increase popularity and will face security problems
Lots of jobs will be lost to automation
Smart cities - more and more cities will integrate the new technologies
Of course, we should expect improvments in the existing deep learning systems (computer vision, NLP, voice technologies)
Drones also will increase popularity and the need for law restrictions
Increasing popularity of wearables with new devices on the market
Cybersecurity will be a hot topic also in 2020
Evolution in the health care - presonalized and predictive medicine, better predicitons at the genome level
Fintech industry will grab huge percentage of all banking industry
Evolution of aerospace technologies
AI and robotics will become closer to humans, not only with chat bots and virtual assistants but with consumer-ready physical robots
Internet of things (IoT)
New foldable phones in the market
Quantum computing will become more usable and powerful
Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies may experience another rise
It is expected that in 2020 biofuels will be cost-competitive with fossil fuels
Scientists will continue to work hard in the neurotechnology, expecting to have implantable brain–machine interfaces in the next decade, why not prototypes in 2020?

January 01, 2020
Nikolay Kostov (Nikolay.IT)

Happy new 2020 year!

As the new year is here, I decided to update my blog.

The previous version was written in ASP.NET MVC 5 (and the last code was done in 2015). The new one in written in the latest ASP.NET Core 3.1 and it is a LTS (Long Term Support) version. The project is still open source and the latest code can be found here: https://github.com/NikolayIT/nikolay.it

I used the opportunity to also update few small things like to add google analytics, to update the sidebar and the client-side libraries and to enable HTTPS by default.

For the new year I will try to write at least 2 blog post per month. If you like the content here, please add my RSS to your readers: https://nikolay.it/RSS/Blog

I wish you a very Happy New Year!

September 29, 2018
Nikolay Kostov (Nikolay.IT)

A Bulgarian lecture of mine presented during the Soft Unit Conf on 28th of September 2018.

Topics covered:

What is Blazor and how it works in the browser
What is WebAssembly
Blazor's features and Blazor's work to do
Demo of musicx.mx
Data binding, events and JS interop in Blazor
Blazor on the sever with SignalR

March 28, 2018
Nikolay Kostov (Nikolay.IT)

We are going to separate the task into 3 sub-tasks:

Get the HTML contents from the razor view using IRazorViewEngine
Create HTML page and generate PDF file from it using PhantomJS
Return the PDF file contents to the user

These steps and the provided code are tested in ASP.NET Core 2.0 application deployed in Microsoft Azure.

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My top 20 technologies for 2020

Happy new 2020 year! The blog is now updated to ASP.NET Core 3.1!

Video: Blazor - C# in the browser (25 minutes in Bulgarian)

Generate PDF file from Razor view using ASP.NET Core and PhantomJS