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warning Post in Romanian: Stiu ca nu am mai postat de mult timp si imi cer scuze pentru acest lucru, dar munca la serviciu nu mi-a mai lasat timp si pentru asa ceva.In aceasta luna (august) am fost plecat in US, pentru o calatorie in interes de serviciu,...

In case you live on another planet and didn't heard yet (but you read my blog) here is the news: on 7th of November 2005 the brand new version of Visual Studio will be released. I received my media kit from BetaExperience, and I installed Beta 2 release...

I agree with you. I didn't post here for quite a long time. Actually my schedule was very busy, because I'm trying to graduate my master, and do something useful at work. In the last period many things happened: we had a major release (although labeled...

I've bought a 512 MB miniSD card manufactured by ATP and I've placed inside my Orange SPV C500, so now I have much more storage space. Finding a 512 MB miniSD card in stock was quite challenging since many stores listed the item (but temporarly sold...

In case you don't know yet Google wants to add a way to limit page ranking based on a tag presented in link, which can be used in order to discriminate the weblogs. If you don't agree you can place a logo on your site....

Apparently this crazyness started few days ago, and I took this quiz also....

aka Audiovox SMT 5600, aka i-mate SP3, aka Qtek 8010, aka whatever his name is. Actualy the handset is made by HTC and was called by its parents Smartphone ST20A (at least the manual says so). Well, it was quite an adventure to buy this handset from...

Yesterday I've received my ordered DVD with goodies from Microsoft's partners that are in the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program. It can be ordered from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/partnerdvd/ and contains 67 products and trials,...

I'm not sure I've said here, but I am from Romania. Well, yesterday I've received an email from Brainbench, with a special offer for Romanians: 85% discount, bringing the subscription to a merely 30 USD/year. Also they were saying that Romania is on the...

My blog was quite inactive for a while, and the primary reason is the fact that I find very little free time. Usually, the finish of the year is quite crowded by the work related tasks that are waiting to be finished. Last week I attended a Microsoft...

I found today an older post that links to an interesting book, named “.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library”, and I discovered an interesting discussion: should we derive...

Yag has compiled a list of products created by Microsoft that are developed either entirely, or just some features, with .NET code. As we can see the list contains some interesting products like UDDI server or Sharepoint Portal Server (from Windows 2003),...

Maybe only if you are living in a isolated island you didn't heard the great news: we will have Edit & Continue in C# for Whidbey (aka Visual Studio 2005). You can read the announcement here. So, now all the major development languages (sorry J# guys)...

Since webmatrixhosting decided to remove accounts after 30 days of trial, I had to find a new home for my site, including my personal blog. I found Webhost4life, which have ASP.NET hosting at resonable price, with 300 MB of storage, SQL Server 2000 database,...

I've just finished installing nGallery. In case you didn't know nGallery is a FREE and OPEN SOURCE ASP.NET Image Gallery written in C#. Getting it to work along with .Text was a little bit tricky but it worked after all. So if you want to see...

The release for UAT from previous Monday had around 80 bugs, with almost 40 marked for future release (almost all of the 40 bugs are feature requests, more or less). Pretty much ok, but this area still needs improving. ...

After 14 days of free Brainbench, the results are: Certfied as .NET programmer (this was my main target) 16 tests completed, 6 @ Master level 3 more exams required to be certified as “Systems architect“: Network Monitoring, Software Business...

As you already should know, between 1st and 14th of July 2004 all tests of Brainbench are FREE! I tried the plan feature of the Brainbench and I must say that is very cool. So far I selected four job roles: .NET Programmer, Systems Architech, Network...

Monday is the day of the RELEASE. Monday is the day set for the start of the UAT (User acceptance test). The project where I wrote code, and helped for the specs, and made the design of the security subsystem and ... a lot else is approaching very fast...

Un post foarte interesant al lui Ovidiu Platon despre viata la Politehnica. http://weblogs.studentclub.ro/ovidiupl/articles/380.aspx Comentariile sunt cel putin la fel de “delicioase” cat articolul. Avand in vedere ca sunt absolvent de Politehnica...

Because they can. Instantiating objects, retrieving records from database when you need it, loading a full table with thousands of records, and the examples can continue indefinitely. .NET made this much simpler. In two lines you'll put a big pressure...

Scott postedA reminder on "Three/Multi Tier/Layer Architecture/Design" brought to you by my late night frustrations. So, before writting DataLayer stuff in your .aspx page (or worse, open connections), please review the article. One interesting note....

Joe Wilcox written a story about upgrades. "It's a pretty small percentage of customers on NT 4.0, less than 20 percent. But the vast majority of customers will move by the end of this year." This is good news, especially for network administrators....

Found a new blog: http://thedailywtf.com/ Super cool, one of my favorite. WTF was in head of the one that wrote the code? ...

Since I often remind to people to optimize their code (or at least remove the redundant stuff they do) I found an interesting article about performance & paralellism: http://weblogs.asp.net/simonme/archive/2004/05/31/145024.aspx. Quote: Now 2GHz...