Author Archives: sorin

O scurtă fugă la Paris

Posted on 2012/03/01 by sorin

Cum multi ma intreaba cum e la Paris, m-am gandit sa scriu pe blog, ca sa nu ma mai repet. Obiective Invalides – 9€+6€ audioguide pentru muzeele armatei si sarcofagul lui Napoleon, care l-au facut cat sa incapa si el … Continue reading →

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Who is going to buy JetBrains?

Posted on 2011/10/28 by sorin

There is at least one software company that really does know how to develop remarkable tools for software developers, thats JetBrains.

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iOS and Romanian language

Posted on 2011/03/12 by sorin

First I have to confess that I’m pleased about the amount of attention Apple gave to supporting Romanian language on iOS 4.3 (iPhone/iPad/iPod). I remember reporting few bugs to them regarding Romanian support and I was glad to discover that … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office spellchecker failing to detect language

Posted on 2011/02/08 by sorin

I was surprised to find out that Microsoft Office spellchecker is failing to detect the language even if this is damn simple because it should be based on the keyboard language set on the system.

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Apple failing to support high-DPI on iTunes

Posted on 2010/11/02 by sorin

The irony is that Apple who created the smartphone with the greatest DPI ever, is unable to add high DPI support for their iTunes application. Here is how the latest iTunes 10 application under Windows 7 on a computer that … Continue reading →

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How to measure mutilanguage support of a CMS solution

Posted on 2010/10/26 by sorin

Most CMS solutions are marketing their multi-language support but in reality few of them do have good support for creating and maintaining multi-language websites.

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UTC is obsolete, welcome to PST, the „real” standard

Posted on 2010/10/11 by sorin

As you can imagine the title is now so true but the story is that at work I received some request to change the timezone of a server running hudson in order to make it easier for (some) people to … Continue reading →

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Things you really should be knowing about Perforce

Posted on 2010/10/01 by sorin

My 3 years experience with Perforce was not one of the best ones and I decided to share some things that you may not know about Perforce, ones that you are not going to find in any marketing document.

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Complete guide for installing Hudson CI on OS X 10.6

Posted on 2010/09/24 by sorin

If you are one of the less lucky ones that do have to use OS X instead of Linux for installing a Hudson CI you could follow this guide because most of other resources I found were incomplete or obsolete, … Continue reading →

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Statistics regarding localized text

Posted on 2010/08/13 by sorin

I’ve always thought it’s hard to find statistical information regarding software localization, so I decided to gather some of them in one place. Here are some data that I collected over time regarding localized text. I hope you may find … Continue reading →

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