Last weekend was quite an interesting one for me, as I attended the Asynchronous Master Class from Cluj, with Richard Blewett and Andrew Clymer as trainers. The event was sponsored by iQuest* (that makes its 15th anniversary) and was open to any developer that wanted … Continue reading
There will be a lot of news regarding Google’s new stuff announced at Google I/O. But somehow, I’m not impressed. I watched about half of the keynote this yesterday in the evening before falling asleep (once you get a regular … Continue reading
There’s an interesting article roaming around the interwebz these days regarding the performance of Windows, and why you don’t actually see the improvements (that may be spectacular at times) from the open source world (The full article as a PNG … Continue reading
We had an interesting situation recently, where someone (not from our team) used the following piece of code to set to zero the first bit a byte value: This won’t work. Why? It’s simple. All bitwise operations performed on values … Continue reading
A few days ago, while going out with the team, celebrating a release of the project we’re working on, we started discussing not about skirts lengths and the wonderful summer-y feel of the evening, not even about how many bottles … Continue reading
There is a little known detail that can ruin a few days of debugging of C code. When you have mixed evaluations with signed and unsigned integers, the signed integers will become unsigned. This rule looks kind of arbitrary, the … Continue reading
Because 2014 will be the Linux Desktop year, let’s remember why Linux sucked so much in the year 2012. Now it’s 2013, and it still sucks, but a bit less because of Steam for Linux (which really works). Presenter is … Continue reading
Microsoft has probably the best IDE in the world. It’s called Visual Studio, and lately it has been messed up with unnecessary ALL CAPS menu entries and the ugliest colors possible, not to mention that awful flat look. Besides that, … Continue reading
Am văzut la Vali noua campanie Microsoft, Windows Phone is faster, în care Microsoft încearcă în sfîrșit să facă un pic de marketing. Asta după ce aproape că au falimentat Nokia prin crearea unor produse inferioare pe care nu le-a … Continue reading
Finally, Apple managed to invent two step authentication. After long struggles, the brightest minds in the universe worked together to invent the most wonderful feature, that will make your phone more secure than ever. Of course, like all Apple inventions, … Continue reading