tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:20:32 +0000mobileVisual Studioreflectionmobile device browser filedesign patternsgethashcodeDublincomicsweb developmentphotosla miştoASP.NETexceptionsîn românăbingImagine CupagileIaşifrom the webinternetstring comparisonthis blog.netGMailtrainingmesalarii ITEarth Hoursoftware designgamesRomâniainvariant culturetype castingdelegatescarteStreet ViewC#board gamesstudentjobsgenericsboxing / unboxinguncheckedordinalsearchmicrosoftequalsIrelandin englishhttp://vladcananau.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Vlad)Blogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-5048185593625179774Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:43:00 +00002009-12-26T10:23:33.407+02:00gamesin englishThese holidays, GOG.com are dropping prices on basically every title they sell. And there are a lot of lost gems to be re-discovered in that store, for sure. I made myself a Christmas gift of Sanitarium, Commandos, Fallout and Stronghold for a measly $20.Merry Christmas!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/1mVXMqcEAa8/christmas-sale-on-good-old-games.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/1mVXMqcEAa8" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-sale-on-good-old-games.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-5511150526349130694Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:20:00 +00002009-11-05T01:39:02.949+02:00Street Viewin englishMy friends and I were planning a trip to New York. We were looking to rent an apartment for the week and one of our criteria was for it to have parking nearby. So while I went ahead and started emailing apartment owners asking them whether there was parking available, my friend looked up the addresses in Google Maps, switched to Street View and read the parking signs. Smart girl.I'm curious, do http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/r9YDdCwcdjM/what-do-you-use-google-street-view-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/r9YDdCwcdjM" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-do-you-use-google-street-view-for.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-4818217337402881412Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:01:00 +00002009-11-03T22:32:41.024+02:00GMailin englishA friend got tired of me ranting about how it vexes me that the 'Reply to all' action is poorly accessible (a whole 2 clicks away!) in GMail. She advised me to look in GMail -> Settings -> Labs and enable the Default 'Reply to all' feature. That helps, but only at the expense of the 'Reply' action.I looked for the Forward email from 'Inbox' view feature but couldn't find it.Oh well, can't have'emhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/q4VzSfNIBzE/make-reply-to-all-default-in-gmail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/q4VzSfNIBzE" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/11/make-reply-to-all-default-in-gmail.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-8074619722060286221Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:24:00 +00002009-10-18T12:43:00.324+03:00mobileIrelandjobsin englishDublinmicrosoftMy group within Microsoft Ireland is hiring! You can check out the list of available Dublin-based positions on our Join Microsoft Europe website.At the time of me writing this, we have positions in the areas of mobile services, advanced data visualizations and cloud infrastructure.Contact me at vlad.cananau@microsoft.com if you're interested.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/PKjF5knsST8/software-development-engineer-positions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/PKjF5knsST8" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/10/software-development-engineer-positions.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-8178639350701989991Thu, 28 May 2009 20:13:00 +00002009-05-29T11:56:03.611+03:00bingsearchin englishmicrosoftToday, at the D7 conference in the US, CEO Steve Ballmer announced Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, in a bid to change the way we search online. Bing was designed to be a decision engine, and a step forward from information search towards knowledge search. www.bing.com will go live next week, in a market ~60% owned by Google. It's like David versus Goliath all over again, except David has a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/uGseYMjKbII/not-sure-bing-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/uGseYMjKbII" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/05/not-sure-bing-it.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-7106042569196002565Sat, 23 May 2009 08:49:00 +00002009-05-23T12:24:32.839+03:00Imagine Cupîn românăRomâniaAdrian Buzgar, Călin Juravle si Andreas Resios s-au calificat în finala probei regină a Imagine Cup, Software Design! Ei vor reprezenta România, Iaşul şi Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza în finala de la Cairo (click pentru detalii şi poze). Felicitări şi respect, băieţi! Mult succes în finală!GREAT SUCCESS!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/Nt4B7A1JoVs/felicitari-adi-buzgar-si-calin-juravle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/Nt4B7A1JoVs" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/05/felicitari-adi-buzgar-si-calin-juravle.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-5605955618791558524Fri, 15 May 2009 18:39:00 +00002009-05-16T13:41:20.952+03:00.netin englishC#uncheckedgethashcodeOverriding Object.GetHashCode can rightfully be regarded as one of the more mundane tasks in .NET programming and indeed, often enough, when your own application is the only consumer of your code, you might as well return 42 (don't do it, though!).However, if you're writing reusable components or if you're implementing types that you plan to use as keys in an IDictionary, you are required to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/BxKL8mVsvnY/again-on-overriding-objectgethashcode.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/BxKL8mVsvnY" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/05/again-on-overriding-objectgethashcode.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-2218594384266667345Sat, 09 May 2009 13:46:00 +00002009-05-10T12:26:23.265+03:00agilesoftware designin englishIn a recent blog post, Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob), one of the leading figures of the world of agile software development, tackles a widely circulated agile myth: up-front design is evil.I must admit that I haven't read literature on agile and that my team is rather struggling to function in a somewhat agile manner, so I'm far from being savvy. But I have heard people who claimed they were, sayhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/WpTyLkORkUU/never-mind-bollocks-design-upfront.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/WpTyLkORkUU" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/05/never-mind-bollocks-design-upfront.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-4657324319087675557Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:34:00 +00002009-04-22T23:48:06.129+03:00în românăsalarii ITIaşiRomâniaCu vreun an înainte să termin Facultatea de Informatică din Iaşi, am început să mă gândesc la inevitabilele negocieri de salariu de după interviurile pentru slujbe - interviuri pe care, evident, urma sa le trec "vâjâind ca vijelia" :)Ca să-mi fac o idee despre piaţă, am întrebat în stânga şi în dreapta ce salarii au amicii mei programatori. Ei bine, am primit un număr impresionant de ... 0 (zero)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/XBNRhLohEz8/studiu-privind-salariile-din-it-ul.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)9<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/XBNRhLohEz8" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/04/studiu-privind-salariile-din-it-ul.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-7213730400174688530Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:24:00 +00002009-04-20T15:37:16.584+03:00mobilemobile device browser file.netASP.NETin englishWe've released the first update to the mobile device browser file that I was talking about in a previous post. We've added support for nearly 100 more devices and for the canInitiateVoiceCall capability.You can download the file and see the release notes here.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/eP0p4pxsUbA/first-update-to-mobile-device-browser.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/eP0p4pxsUbA" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/04/first-update-to-mobile-device-browser.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-2730745654075884770Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:26:00 +00002009-04-18T18:23:54.541+03:00software designin englishdesign patternsexceptionsA while ago I took over an internal tool with the task of turning it into a reusable component and enhancing it with new features. Given that it had been conceived as a command-line tool to be used only by the other developers in the team, the author of the code had a very simple exception handling policy: let'em all bubble up until they splash at the console - the user will know what to do.So I http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/gUttYm6wr34/how-do-you-design-exception-handling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/gUttYm6wr34" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-do-you-design-exception-handling.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-7861739110403274771Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:34:00 +00002009-05-11T17:09:40.396+03:00in englishC#Visual StudioI've finally decided to change my Visual Studio text editor color settings. I aimed for a dark-background theme with rather mild colors which I felt would decrease the amount of stress that hours of coding put on my eyes. I also wanted comments to fade into the background as much as possible because I was becoming annoyed by large (albeit necessary) XML documentation headers taking away emphasis http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/hgOFHZkiWeM/color-settings-for-visual-studio-dark.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/hgOFHZkiWeM" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/04/color-settings-for-visual-studio-dark.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-5984792379419233024Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:34:00 +00002009-04-04T19:37:45.347+03:00ordinalstring comparison.netin englishinvariant cultureC#gethashcodeequalsSuppose we have a class that contains string members* and that as far as our business logic is concerned, two instances of this class are equal if their string members are respectively equal, regardless of casing.So, following MSDN's recommendation, we use OrdinalIgnoreCase comparison in our Equals() method, like so:class Item{private string code;[..]public bool Equals(Item other){ return http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/FDRqAAZ-R0Y/stringcomparisonordinal-when-overriding.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/FDRqAAZ-R0Y" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/04/stringcomparisonordinal-when-overriding.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-4036503889114936139Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:11:00 +00002009-04-04T19:38:12.721+03:00comicsIrelandin englishboard gamesDublinIt took me 7 months but I finally found a board game shop in Dublin! Even though their main trade is in comic books, Sub City has a reasonable collection of board games on display and are willing to order for you that which they don't have in stock. They're situated in the City Center, on Exchequer Street, 3 minutes off Grafton Street.View Larger Maphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/cnr-jWX-QWE/sub-city-comic-book-and-board-game.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/cnr-jWX-QWE" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/03/sub-city-comic-book-and-board-game.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-1830467808628357350Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:28:00 +00002009-04-04T19:38:54.634+03:00web developmentmobilemobile device browser file.netASP.NETin englishIf having to juggle with the quirks of 3 or 4 PC browsers in order for your website to look good on all of them pushes you to inflict physical damage to your keyboard/screen (according to taste), try developing for mobile devices. Scrap everything you knew you could take for granted when developing for the PC, the plethora of mobile devices and browsers on the market vary in just about every http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/4UIC2Z2p090/develop-for-mobile-devices-using-aspnet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/4UIC2Z2p090" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/03/develop-for-mobile-devices-using-aspnet.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-2436038746061846685Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:55:00 +00002009-04-04T19:39:33.586+03:00în românăinternetla miştoAm numai respect pentru Andrei Vochin ca jurnalist sportiv.Am numai respect pentru Marcel Proust ca romancier.Am numai respect pentru Poponeţ ca argument decisiv în discuţiile în contradictoriu dintre femei şi bărbaţi.Să-i văd pe toţi trei reuniţi sub sloganul "Fotbal. Numai Fotbal. Nimic altceva decât fotbal" ... un vis devenit realitate!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/PrFcZH-lg_4/andrei-vochin-marcel-proust-i-popone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/PrFcZH-lg_4" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2009/01/andrei-vochin-marcel-proust-i-popone.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-1413355401991194783Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:14:00 +00002008-07-29T10:49:57.662+03:00în românăRomâniain englishphotosClick pentru a mări / Click to enlargeMunţii / The mountainsautor / author : Ştefan Petroviciautor / author : Eduard Cimbruautor / author : Vlad CananăuVârful Ineu / Ineu Peakautor / author : Adrian BuzgarLacul Lala Mică / Smaller Lala Lakeautor / author : Eduard Cimbruautor / author : Ştefan PetroviciLacul Lala Mare / Greater Lala Lakeautor / author : Ştefan PetroviciRâul Lala / Lala Riverautor http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/Lh7r72nGoKw/fotografii-din-munii-rodnei-photos-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/Lh7r72nGoKw" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/07/fotografii-din-munii-rodnei-photos-from.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-4834132323009998452Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:55:00 +00002009-04-04T19:40:10.561+03:00gamesin englishfrom the webBlizzard is getting ready to add another title to its "hack and slash" RPG series, Diablo. Its third installment already has an official website, hosting your usual teaser videos, game world information, artwork goodies and previews of two character classes: our old acquaintance, the Barbarian, and the funky fresh Witch Doctor. In addition, a chronological guide to the major events in Diablo I & http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/q_5x1BIFcuo/diablo-iii-official-website-launched.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/q_5x1BIFcuo" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/06/diablo-iii-official-website-launched.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-7018088144652901398Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:05:00 +00002009-04-04T19:40:31.060+03:00internetin englishfrom the webICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has announced yesterday that it intends to relax the assignment rules for top level internet domains (TLDs). Right now, TLDs are restricted to .com, .net, .org, .country and so on, but it's to be expected that starting with late 2009, setting up an internet domain will be a much more liberal affair that it is today, dotAnything-liberal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/cVOy2EyJPNo/wwwvladcananaublog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/cVOy2EyJPNo" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/06/wwwvladcananaublog.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-7400487093405437362Sat, 24 May 2008 20:10:00 +00002009-04-04T19:40:56.501+03:00methis blogin englishfrom the webPaul Graham wrote a very interesting essay on why I haven't posted in almost a month.I'm beginning to realize that one of the reasons I started this blog in March was because I knew I was supposed to start putting some serious effort into my BSc project but I didn't really feel like doing it at that moment. I couldn't sit and do nothing either, so the procrastinating, alibi concocting, self http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/QBsSuqViX_8/paul-graham-on-why-i-havent-been.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/QBsSuqViX_8" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/05/paul-graham-on-why-i-havent-been.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-2208638672505233652Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:38:00 +00002009-04-04T19:41:37.692+03:00delegates.netin englishC#Automatic memory management is one of the greatest things about C# and the CLR. Delegates and events are another. Put these together, though, and you might get more than you've bargained for.One thing you must always be aware of is that when you register an instance method to an event, the MulticastDelegate behind the event creates and then maintains a reference to your instance. So unless you http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/exaXi9HAGtU/events-delegates-bugs-and-memory-leaks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/exaXi9HAGtU" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/04/events-delegates-bugs-and-memory-leaks.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-8076491373593182549Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:38:00 +00002009-04-04T19:42:01.232+03:00în românăIaşiCând şi-a anunţat candidatura pentru Primăria oraşului Iaşi, Dumitru Oprea şi-a declarat intenţia de a fi un "primar european". Implicit, gândeam eu, campania electorală a domnului rector urma să fie, şi ea, una "europeană". Ei bine, aceasta stă să înceapă, însă în pre-campanie, candidatul PD-L a etalat un modus operandi pur românesc. Recunosc că nu posed cunoştinţe de teoria comunicării sau de http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/9lBrvBtyqOs/mitic-i-primria.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/9lBrvBtyqOs" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/04/mitic-i-primria.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-8115918322052362359Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:19:00 +00002009-04-04T19:42:23.491+03:00în românătrainingAm fost zilele astea la două training-uri de câte 2 ore fiecare ţinute de Adrian Rîndaşu de la Edurom. Temele au fost Leadership şi Comunicare iar calitatea a fost de la bună în sus. Dacă auziţi de vreun training ţinut de tipul ăsta, vă recomand să participaţi. Omul ştie despre ce vorbeşte, trădează o experienţă profesională destul de consistentă, zic eu, şi nu se ţine de joculeţe şi alte http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/3HeZLYcfZYU/despre-traininguri-i-mesagerie-instant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/3HeZLYcfZYU" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/04/despre-traininguri-i-mesagerie-instant.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-2949570376189221799Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:07:00 +00002009-04-04T19:42:53.152+03:00reflectiondelegates.netin englishC#Reflection operations may allow you to write flexible and extensible code, but some of them also come with a serious performance hit. Type inspection and dynamic method invocation are probably the most representative.If you ever needed to make a lot of dynamic calls using MethodInfo.Invoke but you knew that most of the time you would be calling the same small number of methods, you've probably http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/AsnXrFR00Ho/use-delegate-calls-instead-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/AsnXrFR00Ho" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/04/use-delegate-calls-instead-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227312705009382710.post-4737861018346778032Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:54:00 +00002009-04-04T19:43:32.691+03:00reflection.netgenericsin englishC#Should you want to check whether some object obj is of a constructed type (or closed generic type) obtained by specifying a given generic type definition (or open generic type), say A<T>, you'll find that the task is not the one-liner you would hope it to be.First of all, the is operator does not work on open generic types, so a check like obj is A<> will not compile.What will compile, however, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VladCananau/~3/wVW5uGGhTR8/check-type-against-generic-type.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vlad)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VladCananau/~4/wVW5uGGhTR8" height="1" width="1"/>http://vladcananau.blogspot.com/2008/04/check-type-against-generic-type.html