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Animated Christmas Card using jQuery

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

As the holiday season is close I was looking for a way of sending a simple, yet nice animated Christmas card to friends. I wasn’t looking for one of the many popular sites offering e-card sending, instead I wanted something I could somewhat customize, put on my server and send the link to friends and [...]

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During my stay in Silicon Valley I had the chance to chat with Steve Newcomb, the founder of Powerset. As he explained Powerset is a search engine that is based on linguistics and AI. During its development they gathered the top AI people to build a tool that would deliver better results than Google.
Steve said [...]

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First trip to Silicon Valley

Monday, April 13th, 2009

In summer 2008 me and three friends representing Hungary as team DigitalMania took part in the Microsoft Imagine Cup competiton in the software design category. The task was to design an implement a solution regarding an environmental issue. We focused on the water problem and created the prototype of a system that aimed to reduce [...]

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CMS Vendor Meme - the Sense/Net Response

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

About two weeks ago ECMS vendor Day started off a smaller lavina in the CMS vendor blogosphere by completing the reality checklist published by CMS Watch and tagged some other vendor to have them complete it as well.
As of now more than 20 vendors have completed this checklist. Even though Sense/Net was not tagged [...]

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A great disk storage usage monitoring tool

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

It’s quite a common problem that disk space shrinks dramatically and something has to be deleted. But what are those big files taking up the free space? With Windows you simply need some kind of tool to get a picture of disk usage. And the best tool I’ve found to do the job so far [...]

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Brief intro

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

I’m reading numerous blogs, sometimes commenting on them as well but only now have I decided to start one myself. Topics will be basically everything connected mostly with software and a little bit with me.
3… 2… 1… go!

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