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O scurtă fugă la Paris

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?

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

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

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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De ce este iPad-ul atât de important?

Am un ipad de peste 6 luni și sunt cu adevarat mulțumit de el. Practic mi-a schimbat “viața”, în sensul că ajung să petrec o groază de timp pe el, char și în locuri mai neobiștuine precum în cadă! Cred … Continue reading

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Apple failing to support high-DPI on iTunes

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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Emag și calitatea routerelor de pe piața românească

Pe scurt sunt extreme de dezamăgit de ce routere se vând în România și mai exact de Linksys WRT120N și D-link DIR-600, dar în același timp sunt mulțumit de calitatea serviciilor de asistență oferite de eMAG.

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How to measure mutilanguage support of a CMS solution

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UTC is obsolete, welcome to PST, the „real” standard

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

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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