Here we are in 2016, trying to start blogging again. Using Pelican is more complicate than it needs to be :-(.

Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website. Builders have become commonplace in current Java code. They have the effect of transforming the following code: new Foo(1, 5, “abc”, false); Into something like Foo.builder() .count(1) .priority(5) .name(“abc”) .canonical(true) .build(); This has the advantage of being much easier to understand (as a downside we can mention the fact […]

If you need to “recover” your RoTLD password when the .RO domain is registered trough Gandi.NET (I say “recover” because you didn’t set it in the first place :-)) – do this: In the Gandi interface go to Account Management -> Update account information and set “Anti-spam system” to No Go to the RoTLD password […]

Inspired by this post I decided to list the software I use/recommend under Windows. Free/Libre Open Source Software: LibreOffice (for of OpenOffice) – a very capable office solution. Most people don’t need anything more than this. If you are installing it for a non-technical user, make sure to set the default file formats to the […]

Piggybacking on some memes floating around on the internet I would like to publish my list of “what every programmer should know”. A couple of introductory words: in my opinion the two most important things to learn for new programmers are terminology – to know what things / ideas / algorithms / concepts are called […]

This article was originally published in the 6th edition of TodaySoftMag in Romanian and on the Transylvania JUG blog in English. Reprinted here with the permission of the author / magazine. Most mainstream programming languages contain a large set of features and diverse standard libraries. Because of this it becomes important to know not only […]

TL;DR – I’ve created a map of Romania’s counties (judete) using Javascript which can be used as an alternative for drop-down boxes during form input. It works great with FF and Chrome :-). See it in action and browse the source code. The map is based on the SVG drawings from Wikimedia Commons postprocessed in […]