Hardcode
Making it happen
How to bold one windows menu item
Nov 16th
Ah the good old times when messing with the Win32 SDK – you can quickly make a menu item bold by using SetMenuDefaultItem, there may also be an undocumented MF_xyz but who knows ?
Fun facts about Linus Torvalds
Nov 16th
Linus Torvalds once found a segmentation fault in the universe.
Linus Torvalds can run kill -9 and kill Chuck Norris.
Linus Torvalds doesn’t die, he simply returns zero.
Linus Torvalds first written program had artificial intelligence.
Linus can divide by zero.
Linus Torvalds runs Linux on his wristwatch and toster.
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How Microsoft is wasting time …
Nov 9th
… instead of competing with Google, the latest software received here:
- Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007
- Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Terminal Services 4.1 with SP1
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SP3 Upgrade
Google Calendar xml feed
Nov 8th
Ok I know they wanted to syndicate the calendar to an atom feed so it can be read by anything however maybe they should have added some extensions for the event time, location, etc ?
When: Fri Nov 23, 2007 16:00 to 17:30 EET Where: Sala Montreal, etajul 1, World Trade Center Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Clientilor le place sa fie auziti, ascultati
Wurbe 3 programming party
Nov 6th
At last, one coder meeting in Bucharest ! Kind of different from the ones in Silicon Valley or in the nordic countries, it was cool nonetheless and not that geeky as it happened in a pub with beers and such.
I teamed up with EvilChelu and Zmack and worked on a lolcats generator from my site and Pisi’s pisicavagaboanda. It didn’t end up as expected still I did a Romanian text convertor into lolcat speech, managed to upload something to flickr from C# code (btw I was the only one coding in .NET) and to automatically post comments to a wordpress.com blog (that got into spam of course 
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Nihasa has more details, also check his pictures here.
Ideas for mobile applications
Nov 5th
Here’s a list with the users’ most requested applications that need to be done for Nokia mobile phones.
Video processing on mobile phones
Nov 2nd
Here’s a paper describing a project similar to what we did last year for Birdspot, a direction I’m also into. However they are using standalone Nokia 6630 for both the capture and the image processing, I still don’t get how they capture the image with J2ME MMAPI in a raw format without any encoding in 80 ms, last time I tried it I saved it best in bmp but still got >300ms per capture .
Interesting hints to the future of J2ME
Nov 2nd
Here’s a list of J2ME Java Specification Requests, these are documentations for various APIs that can be implemented on J2ME devices, basically mobile phones. The specifications submitted by Nokia have a big change of getting into their phones, so these deserve special attention:
JSR-256: Mobile Sensor API
JSR-257: Contactless Communication API (for RFID tags)
JSR-258: Mobile User Interface Customization API
Mobile presence
Oct 31st
Nice article about Google, Jaiku and the future (via Dragos), Nokia has been doing this for ages (at least 3 years back), too bad it never “took off” – the main reason for that is in my opinion not partnering with carriers to use their Nokia Presence Server.
Nokia had also pioneered bluetooth social networking with Nokia Sensor, again a very old application that has never been successful despite being backed by the famous mobile phone company, this should be a lesson to learn for the followers.
Internetics conferences
Oct 31st
Just came back from the Internetics event here in Bucharest, attended only the two first presentations. It wasn’t very interesting, the guy that presented was touting Microsoft WPF for implementing interfaces with great experience that users would be delighted to use, he insisted on the WPF readers for New York Times and Daily Mail, nothing revolutionary, why invent a useless program instead of better designing your website.
