How to help someone to quit smoking…
by admin on Mar.09, 2010, under The programmers' dilemas
… you smoke all his cigarettes.
This morning, mr. Sandulici, wanted to take a short smoking break. The rest of the office inhabitants decided they needed a cigarette break too (they are all non-smokers, by the way).
Mr. Sandulici stated: “If I see you all smoking, I will quit!”. Well… they did.
The problem was none of them knew how to hold the cigarette, so the show was fun enough to quit smoking for.
Sandulici, I hope you appreciate what they did for you, man!
To my/our/your IE6 users
by admin on Feb.11, 2010, under The programmers' dilemas
I was thinking to write a script that prevents IE6- users to see the sites I’m developing a long time ago, but I never seemed to have the time.
Fortunately a nice guy (I think his name is Mihai Ile) did, so he wrote this little script “that displays a warning message politely informing the user to upgrade the browser to a newer version (links to newest IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome are provided)”.
Thank you Mihai! Thank you in the name of all frustrated web developers, who spend their precious time downgrading their code to support IE6 or explaining their customers and visitors why it’s not a good idea to use a browser that was produced 9 years ago.
Also, thanks Mirel for the link!
Update: Smashing Magazine published a nice comic-book-like story about IE6. You might wanna check that too…
Nuit Blanche
by admin on Feb.04, 2010, under Heart, brains and eyes
Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.
Thanks Alex for sharing this. The whole mix of ideas, composition and feelings is incredible!
Apple iPad?!?
by admin on Jan.28, 2010, under The little tech corner
A few minutes ago, I wanted to download iTunes (coz I had to wipe my computer last week, thanks to a new Trojan Bit Defender didn’t knew about – so I need to gradually install all my software). I went to apple.com and what do I see??? Apple is launching a new great product. They called it iPad.
I’m quit busy today, so I just browsed through the keynote – damn, this video is longer than Sherlock Holmes – but I’ll definitely watch it tonight. Fortunately, they provide a short movie too, so if you have 7 minutes to spare, watch the iPad video and see the new little Apple wonder for yourself.
An e-reader device was on the list of this year’s “treats for myself”, the only impediment is there are no Romanian e-books on the market, but let’s not rush into conclusions, Humanitas seems to have started taking into consideration the new medias. Anyway, the iPad is more than an e-reader device, and I’m more than willing to spend $500 on a toy like this.
Darius, what do you think about this, dude?
Speechless…
by admin on Jan.25, 2010, under Heart, brains and eyes
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
The whiteboard is back home
by admin on Jan.23, 2010, under The programmers' dilemas
After all the (online and offline) pressure we put on Velea, he finaly brought back our precious whiteboard!
Manny thanks to all the nice programmers, students, bank employees, little boys and girls who know how you feel when somebody takes your lolly-pop, grannies, kitties, doggies and aliens – in one word all the nice people – who supported us to get it back!
Velea, bring the whiteboard back!
by admin on Jan.20, 2010, under The programmers' dilemas
13th of August 2009. This is the day I lost something precious, something I miss a lot. My whiteboard. Our whiteboard. Together with it’s markers and sponge.
A human being (if we can call this… this… this… heartless programmer, a human being) managed to trick me to lend it to him.It’s been abandoned on his terrace ever since. Every morning, when I come to work, I see a blank spot on the wall. Two nail holes are the cruel testimonial of the missing piece of my soul. Each and every morning I have to endure my 5 colleagues hoping-faces and the question you can read in their eyes: “Did he bring IT back?“. I can’t live like this!
Everybody knows I have a terrible memory. That’s very bad if you’re earning your living working as a web programmer. I need the whiteboard. I can’t create hundreds of interconnected database tables without drawing a few schemes on the WHITEBOARD. I can’t design nice UIs without sketching my ideas on the WHITEBOARD. I can’t code functions of hundreds and thousands of lines without the WHITEBOARD.
I’m crying in despair. I want it back! I need it back! All 6 of us do.
Velea, if you read this, I’m begging you, BRING THE WHITEBOARD BACK!
Update: I started writing on windows…
Using the window as a whiteboard
Update 2:The windows are NOT OK coz’ the cleaning lady thought they were dirty and had to clean them… I hope she won’t clean the back of my laptop too…
Using the back of my laptop as a whiteboard (actually a greyboard)
unfortunatelty…
... this technique leaves marks on the laptop's case
