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An Army of Droids

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:34:00 +0000

If you are wondering where the hell I've been and why I haven't written anything since March, thanks for your concern and please read on to elucidate the "mystery". Since October last year, when...

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o3 magazine relaunched

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:03:00 +0000

O3 magazine, the free online magazine for Open Source news, presentations and announcements, has relaunched recently in a new format and with a new site. If you are interested in Open Source news or...

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My Android Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:21:00 +0000

As I might have mentioned in one of my previous posts this year, I have recently started to learn how to develop applications for Google's Android platform. There are plenty of reasons why one might...

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You Reap What You Sow

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:24:00 +0000

The theme of this post is concerned with our effect on the environment. I know that lately there has been a lot of talk, controversy and contradiction on the subject of Global Warming and on the...

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JobMate BETA is live

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:06:00 +0000

A friend of mine, Radu Tanasa, participated on behalf of his company Lightway Software, in the development of a new jobs portal for the local Romanian market, called jobmate, and he asked me to do a...

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Changes, changes and, guess what, more changes

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:24:00 +0000

Hi everybody and sorry for the long dry streak of articles on my blog. 2008 was a long and busy year for me for several reasons: 1. I got married last summer (pictures here) - so ladies the train has...

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artistsbay.org - invest in it

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:55:00 +0000

Hello everybody, It's been a while since I've posted something on my blog, but this time I have good reasons (I haven't been just lazy) and I am going to talk about them in the following posts. In...

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artistsbay.org first steps

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:46:00 +0000

As the great Chinese thinker and philosopher K'ung-fu-tzu (widely known as Confucius) once said that "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", we have made our first step in the...

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The Ultimate Programming Language

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:33:00 +0000

Last week I had an interesting discussion with one of my friends and colleagues about the the ongoing programming language hypes and He said he believed that about 80% of the programmers community is...

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Lightway Software - new website

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:11:00 +0000

Lightway Software is the company that my good friend and ex work colleague Radu Tanasa started about a year ago. Since then he had to travel his own journey and it has not been an easy one, but he...

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A New Year's Resolution

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:02:00 +0000

Well, another year passed by, making me remember I am getting older and counting the things I have to get done around here before I will pass on :)...and many they are. Last year was one full of...

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A Drop of Intelligence II - Making Things Simple

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:27:00 +0000

A while ago I wrote an article about how smart applications can improve our lives by taking care of menial and common tasks for us and allowing us to spend more time on the things we actually enjoy...

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No iPods on Linux? Why?

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:08:00 +0000

There's been a rumor going around that Apple implemented some kind of protection for their new iPods so they could not be used with other synchronizing software. What does this mean? It means Linux...

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A Linux Drivers Rant

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:19:00 +0000

I have been using both Ubuntu and Windows for about 2 years now and it's been a combination that has worked for me just fine, but now I am thinking of completely switching to Ubuntu. Now don't get...

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Looks like someone's been reading my entries

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:31:00 +0000

This June I wrote an article titled "First Things I Would do as Microsoft's CEO" in which I said that I would pretty much Open Source all of Microsoft's products as soon as I would get accommodated...

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The Best Things in Life are Open Source

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:41:00 +0000

It seems that after all this time since Open Source (OS) is around, there still are people with misconceptions about this model for software development. In this post, I want to try to explain what...

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It's about the people

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:38:00 +0000

Lately I have been reading some blog posts about how people are a big influence in the success rate of a software project and I thought I should throw my 2 cents on the matter. Damn right that people...

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First Things I Would do as Microsoft's CEO

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:26:00 +0000

If you haven't figured this out from the title yet, this one is going to be a rant about Microsoft again :). I know the internet's full of them and it's quite an worn out subject to rant about them...

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A Drop of Intelligence

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:19:00 +0000

Google has became the most used search engine on the web and has made its owners proud and filthy rich and all this with good reasons. Lately I have been checking out a new feature of Google: if you...

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Portability Matters

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:33:00 +0000

Well hello to all my loyal readers (which are probably 2 or 3 of my friends :)). It is time to put some more content in here because I haven't been blogging for a while now. I was out on a nice...

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Linux: Evolution

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:23:00 +0000

An hour ago I was talking to a friend and work colleague which is still a student and he was working on some practical homework for his "Operating Systems" college course. He had to write some small...

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Does FOSS make coders starve?

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:08:00 +0000

To code or not to code free and open source software (FOSS); that is the conundrum in which you may find yourself if you are a coder and wandering: "Well, this free software idea sounds great and...

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Methodology Wars

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:08:00 +0000

Last week I read an article on Steve Yegge's blog entitled "Good Agile, Bad Agile" with a little bit more "bite" towards the Agile methodology of software development and in which he presented the...

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The Hunt Is Over

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:45:00 +0000

"Every man dies, not every man truly lives." Steve Irwin, better known as the Crocodile Hunter was a man that lived by this motto and his love and respect for wildlife should be an inspiration to us...

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The Curse of Software Evaluation Copies

noreply@blogger.com (Mihai Campean) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:14:00 +0000

Nowadays every respectable software company which provides proprietary software solutions, offers evaluation copies of their products to their costumers usually by direct download from their sites....

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