Hardcode

Startup Batch

andrei — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:17:46 +0000

Two startups I wished I’d though of that:
- GazeHawk – Webcam-based eye-tracking website heatmaps, tech-based but not easy at all to develop
- Rapportive – GMail Social Sidebar, much easier to build but harder to monetize ?

VS2010 drop files in editor

andrei — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:31:59 +0000

If you have “Drag and drop text editing” disabled you cannot drop files anymore in the editor (to open them).

Please vote for the bug: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/575691/dropping-files-in-the-editor-does-not-work, maybe they fix it in the SP.

Calling All Innovators – Romania

andrei — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:30:24 +0000

Urbee is finalist: http://www.callingallinnovators.com/romania/

The Old New Thing

andrei — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:22:58 +0000

Win32 guru Raymond Chen answers a comment of mine after 3 years . Thanks God I don’t do Visual C++ anymore, Win32 was an absolute horror .

Windows Live Writer

andrei — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:30:35 +0000

Rules because of one feature: you can paste an image directly in the editor (like in MS Word) and have it posted on the blog, no more saving and uploading.

Visual Studio 2010 ASP.NET Intellinonsense

andrei — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:18:21 +0000

The new ViewStateMode control property completely messes my fast typing mode. I use .Visible more often, it should be before ViewStateMode.

Docs.com

andrei — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:12:19 +0000

At first glance docs.com seems much better than google docs, the uploaded documents look exactly the same as on the desktop. And it’s not in Silverlight as I predicted a year ago . The UI looks exactly the same as Office 2010.

It seems that the specs for the Powerpoint Web editor are public, you can now build your own ppt editor over the cloud .

Microsoft Dev Meeting in Bucharest

andrei — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:28:42 +0000

This evening: http://ronua.ro/CS/forums/t/7485.aspx

CSS New Features

andrei — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:58:50 +0000

Wouldn’t it be really great if CSS had the following:

div.leftcol % div.col // inherit from class div.col
{
float:left;
}

and also:

.header
{
font-size:12px;
h1 {
color: red;
}
}

equivalent to:

.header {
font-size: 12px;
}
.header h1 {
color: red;
}

Facebook DataStore

andrei — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:10:31 +0000

It’s so slow it’s kinda useless. If you don’t use preload_fql there’s a big change your pages will timeout. But still you’d better not use it and use a real backend database instead !