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The blog of Gergely Orosz on IT related topics: web, software design, .NET, PHP and the rest. Follow me @gergelyorosz on Twitter.

On yesterday’s Scot Alt.NET meeting I held a presentation (An Introduction to Silverlight) that was aimed at providing an overview of Silverlight and looking at some of it’s most important features. Thanks to the about 30 people who’ve attended and given feedback, I hope you’ve found it useful. For those who have missed out I’ll [...]

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Teamwork isn’t an easy sport: the bigger the team the harder it gets. If the goals/milestones are set clear, one person will probably complete the project just fine. If it’s a team of two they’ll probably split up the work, track each other progress and finish in time. If its one of three, four or [...]

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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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