A kezdő startupok augusztus 21-ig jelentkezhetnek a Colabs őszi Seed Programjába, melynek keretében a legígéretesebb hazai projektek 2 és 6 millió forint közötti induló befektetést kapnak. A kiválasztott csapatok egy 5+12 hétes intenzív program keretében tapasztalt szakemberek és sikeres vállalkozók mentorálása mellett teljeskörű termék- és cégfejlesztési támogatást valamint ingyenes irodahasználati lehetőséget kapnak, hogy felépítsék termékük első piacképes verzióját.

A program 2012 szeptemberétől 2013 január végéig tart, melynek zárónapján a startupok egy befektetőkkel zsúfolt teremben mutatkoznak be a nyilvánosság előtt, ahol akár aznap megnyerhetik következő körös befektetőiket. Az előző Seed Programban részt vevő csapatok május 30-án mutatkoztak be a Colabs Demo Day-en és eddig összesen több mint 100 millió forint befektetést kaptak.

A Seed Program egyedisége, hogy a kezdő vállalkozásokat többek között olyan tapasztalt üzletemberek mentorálják, mint Gerő Viktor, a Vatera korábbi igazgatója, Kovács Zoltán, a Kirowski vezérigazgatója és társtulajdonosa, Gerényi Gábor, az Index társalapítója vagy Vinnai Balázs az IND Group alapítója. A mentorok bővülő listáját a weboldalon követheted.

Jelentkezés:

http://colabs.hu/seed

Would you like to learn more about Credit Portal, CRGT (Compliance, Risk and Governance IT), RIM (Regulatory Impact Monitor), Next Generation End-Of-Day Marking, TORCH – Targeting Opportunities, Recognising Client Headlines, Electronic Trading Systems – cutting edge technology in the Front Office, Business Metrics – the next generation of real time reporting systems, Windows Virtualisation and Windows 7 technologies, ZooKeeper, Little administration framework, Technology Asset Inventory, QA service, Sub Ledger project, Client On-Boarding, FPGA, Scala, IPCAuth, Optimus, Continious delivery, content publishing/subscribing, market data, KDB, Stack, Catalog, Log Server, Scalable high throughput server side middleware for grid and cloud computing, Morgan Stanley Desktop, Strat Studio, General-Purpose GPU Programming, End of Day Process Automation, Report Creation Wizard, Report Notificator & Sanitychecker, and much more?

Join us on 5/9/2012, 6PM, when the Morgan Stanley IT Budapest TECHNOLOGY EXPO begins. Details and registration to be found here.

See you there!

Morgan Stanley Budapest would like to invite you to the 2012 TECHNOLOGY OPEN EVENING Millennium III, 1095 Budapest, Lechner Ödön fasor 8. 6PM, Wednesday 9th May, 2012

What is the Tech Open Evening about?

The event is designed for experienced IT professionals who are simply interested in understanding how a market leading global organization in the financial sector operates. The event will consist of:

Presentation of Morgan Stanley in Budapest

• Morgan Stanley as a global organization
• Technology’s crucial role within the Firm
• Employees’ experiences

Live Technology demonstrations and discussions on

• Cutting-edge financial technology systems (i.e., GPU, FPGA, Scala)
• Applications in action and end user applications
• Various in-house applications written in Java, Scala, C++,.NET 4, Python, Perl, Web Technologies, etc.
• Scalable high throughput server side middleware for grid and cloud computing
• Windows and Linux Server Virtualization
• Other exciting technologies

Interactive Panel discussions with Technology employees at Morgan Stanley Budapest

• Projects
• Innovative solutions and technical challenges
• QA session

HR Session, HR Clinic – English level & CV advice

• Insight into the recruitment process and the everyday life of Morgan Stanley
• Test your English
• Get practical advice on your CV

“Women in IT” – Panel discussion

• Hear from senior female role models who will share insights about their business and discuss tips and tools that were impactful in moving forward in their career
• Representatives from Morgan Stanley’s different divisions will share with you key turning points in their careers, what they wish they would have done differently and what it is really like to work at Morgan Stanley

Please pre-register using the Registration link.

You are welcome to bring a guest who may also be interested in a Technology career at Morgan Stanley. Please ask them to register as well.

There is no charge to attend the event. Food and drinks will be served throughout the evening.

For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit: http://www.morganstanley.hu

If you have any queries, please email mstechopenevening2012@morganstanley.com

We look forward to seeing you there!

You are welcome to bring guests who may also be interested in Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley IT.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Guys + Ladies, thank for the 3 hours we spent together on various topics – I really loved the questions I got 🙂

I'm going to give a presentation at the Adecco IT Academy about the "Morgan Stanley Desktop".

The following is a brief agenda:

• What is "Morgan Stanley Desktop"
• What can be common along 4000 applications
• Grid + Cloud – and Sauron's Eye
• How can you have hundreds of bosses – agility++

Additional information and sign up at: http://adeccoitacademy.wordpress.com/

Let me have a short follow up on yesterday's event – it was a huge success I think. Hundredish interesting people from in (and especially welcoming the fact, that) and outside the company were buzzing around the 8th floor of the building learning about our newest and latest cut of technology in many of our interest fields, like mass Virtualization, extreme user experience makeovers or high frequency trading.

I'd like to thank for those people who participated and for those people who (among myself) were presenter on one of the 10 booths, being a panel speaker or was preparing the event and the keynote presentations.

As last parts of the shameless plug, let me draw the opportunity to present a small part of the presentation I gave – here:

If I did draw someone's interest into our divison, please do not hesitate, follow up with us or drop me a mail!

Hey, I still have a blog! Nearly forgotten 🙂

And what I'll use it for? You figured out, loosy advertising…

Most of my readers (are there any? :)) know that I'm involved with Agile development methodologies a lot. Therefore came up the question what tools do I and you suggest for using to commit yourself to Agile and related methodologies. Here is my list (a bit .NET biased):

• TFS (What else? :))
• Greenhopper – http://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper
• Crucible – http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/
• JIRA – http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
• Trac – http://trac.edgewall.org/
• TeamCity – http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
• YouTrack – http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
• Selenium – http://seleniumhq.org/
• White – http://white.codeplex.com/
• CruiseControl.NET – http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET
• TestDriven.NET – http://www.testdriven.net/
• ReSharper – http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
• Hawkeye – http://www.acorns.com.au/projects/hawkeye/
• Snoop – http://snoopwpf.codeplex.com/
• NMock – http://www.nmock.org/
• Moq – http://code.google.com/p/moq/
• Pex & Moles – http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/
• RhinoMock – http://www.ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks.aspx
• Sound recording, live meeting & recording, skype sharing & recording, video conferencing, etc – everything that helps supporting geo- and TZ-diversity
• Of course cork board, post-its, pins, marker pens, etc

What is on your list?

How do you enhance your (agile?) workload? What tools do you think I missed but is a gem itself?

A side-question: are you more of a FOSS supporter or you don't mind paying for the tools if you get priority support, continuous dependable updates, etc. when the question is your IDE/development process tool support?

Did you know, that a GC can be forced in Visual Studio .NET?

Two options exists for it, depending on whether you changed the default key-bindings. If you press 'Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12' with the built-in key-binding, it executes the Tools.ForceGC command. If this binding is unavailable, you still have the option to run it using nothing else than the good old find window. Press Ctrl+/ or click into the quick find window, and enter '>Tools.ForceGC'.