Jun 05, 2017 by Dragos
Apache Hadoop is an open-source software written in Java, a framework that allows for the distributed processing of very large data sets across clusters of computers... read more
Mar 14, 2017 by AdrianC
As we’ve seen in the second part of this series, the number of Linux distros has increased rapidly, as the Open Source community responded in a positive manner to the flexibility of the Linux kernel... read more
Dec 08, 2016 by AdrianC
The first mention about Linux was made by Linus Torvalds in 1991. The Finnish software engineer confirmed his interest in the standard POSIX definition, without revealing the name of his MINIX project... read more
Sep 01, 2016 by AdrianC
In the first article you got to know something about Angular, and now it's time to get underway and see it in action. The application that I'm going to present lists a number of products that can be selected, their total price being updated and displayed in real time... read more
Aug 31, 2016 by VladC
We are talking in this article about a major step regarding Romania's administration: the Government tries to develop a new platform called GovITHub, which is designed to simplify all aspects regarding the Romanian public administration... read more
Jul 14, 2016 by BogdanD
We did it again :) Just a couple of weeks ago, Flavia Oprea, Iulian Mateșică and Cristian Alexandrescu from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest won the Innovation challenge in Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition... read more
Jun 19, 2016 by AdrianC
AngularJS is a JavaScript framework for Web applications, or simply said, a Web framework, which is sustained by Google and other corporations, and it's considered the best framework for developing single-page web applications.
Originally developed in 2009 (by Miško Hevery and Adam Abrons), Angular has quickly climbed the ladder in popularity, thanks to features such as: dependency injection, directive writing, two way data-binding and testability... read more
Dec 21, 2015 by CatalinI
With the Christmas season fast approaching, I bet that you're over your head with shopping, cooking and maybe planning a great celebration, with your family and friends... and while you gather all your decorations, in order to bring festive cheer into your home, what about your own website / blog? It's not too late to consider a "cool" decoration for it, right?.. read more
Nov 19, 2015 by BogdanD
If in Part 1 of the interview we've seen how it all started, now it's time to talk about adoption rate, mobile devices and future plans. o what do you say, shall we start?.. read more
Nov 03, 2015 by BogdanD
A few weeks back we wrote about a Romanian team of developers from Cluj-Napoca, namely RogentOS, who decided to give something back to the community by developing GNU licensed OS-es for home and public administration use.
Given their goal, we decided to talk to Stefan Brindusa (their Lead Developer and Main OS Designer) for a little Q&A on the team's goals and products... read more
Oct 25, 2015 by AdrianC
Imagine for a moment that: there is no such thing as the Windows operating system; Mac OS X... no one heard of it; we don’t have any Linux distributions to play around with - while Android and iOS are nowhere to be seen.
Now let's travel to the famous Bell Laboratories: it’s 1969 and we witness the birth of something which will forever change the way people interact with computers... read more
Oct 06, 2015 by BogdanD
Last month we took a look at how to integrate PayPal's Express Checkout control into our C# application. At that point we were only able to send data to PayPal'a API to generate transaction tokens for future use, but now it's time to finalize the transaction and request payment from the PayPal API... read more
Sep 22, 2015 by BogdanD
Last time we spoke, we took a look at the general purchase flow via PayPal. Today, we'll look at Point B from our check-list, namely how to actually insert a PayPal button in a C# application, along with the necessary steps for a successful call to the API.
To this end, we'll use the code from a small sample project, containing the bare minimum that is needed to illustrate the process. To keep things simple, the data appended to the NVP string is hardcoded... read more
Sep 02, 2015 by BogdanD
The purpose of this post is to provide a crash course in PayPal integration. Simply put, if your web application is close to being released to the public and you're looking for a fast-and-safe way to provide your customers with an option for purchasing your services, then this blog post might be what you need... read more
Aug 30, 2015 by Oana
I know that currently the entire IT world talks about Windows 10 and Microsoft, but how about the first Romanian-built operating system? Yeah, you heard me right, 2 operatins systems made in Romania have seen the light of day this August, at the University of Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca. Curious?.. read more
Jul 23, 2015 by Oana
This year, the International Mathematical Olympiad was held in the exotic Thailand, between July 4 - July 15. This was the 56th edition of the event, and has accommodated 577 high-school students from 104 countries. [...]
The Romanian high-school students - Simona Diaconu, Theodor Andrei Andronache, Marius Ioan Bocanu, Ciprian Mircea Bonciocat, Stefan Spataru, Andrei Bogdan Puiu - have won this year 6 medals [...]... read more
Jun 15, 2015 by AdrianC
The Google search engine, Gmail, Android or Chrome... this is what immediately comes into our minds when we think about Google - and for good reason, because these products "call the shots" in their field. However, if we look closely, behind these successful products we see the projects that Google really wants to bury, a “graveyard” of failed products.
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May 21, 2015 by AdrianC
We live in an Internet era and no one wants to have a website that is vulnerable to web attacks - as this means losing money, time and credibility. Web security wasn't regarded as a "big problem" before the year 2000, however social networking websites and an increase in the adoption rate of the Web, as a means for business, have changed all this, and now more and more hackers are trying to compromise the WWW security for personal gain... and some even for fame and fun... read more
May 12, 2015 by AdrianC
So far it looks like that Google and Apple see 2015 as the year of wearable devices, Amazon shows us that flying drones represent the future, and a company named Oculus VR tries to bring to life the unfulfilled dream of the last generation, Virtual Reality... read more
Apr 16, 2015 by AdrianC
Crucial to many people in their work, disliked by some, Microsoft Excel is one of the best software solutions, which hides many, many productivity secrets. Although I'm sure that many of you are acquainted with some of the "magic" that this software is capable of, becoming more proficient should be our target, that's why I think it's necessary to enhance our skills with some new Microsoft Excel tricks... read more