IKEA Prank

And btw check our latest prank in the IKEA store: http://culturavura.fourhooks.com/cat54435/art6451142070/. Pictures from http://cocalari.com and http://pitzipoanca.org.

CodeJam 2009

If you’ve participated be sure to check out the solutions written in some exotic programming languages like BrainFuck, SQL, Fortran and even PostScript …

C# Initialize Dictionary

I’ve recently found the magic way to do it:

Entity Framework Related Entities Queries

In Linq to SQL the following works by issuing a second query, in Linq to Entities it does not (and this sucks):

Some quick stats

… for http://oracolulmeu.ro/ for the last Monday: 1K visits and 42K pageviews (same day).

S4H

So now we have or own url-shortener service: http://s4h.ro/. Give it a try !

The Holy Grail of Webdesign

…. is almost live : http://psdbreaker.com.

Provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified

I recently got the dreadful error when starting the website, even if the database connection string was more than correct and it worked in sql management studio. If you’ve tried anything else without success of getting your website started, and you use SQL Server-backed session persistance, be sure to also check for the sessionState connection string...

Nokia Friend View

Similar to Jaiku and Google Latitude: Friend View from Nokia. (thanks, Tase!)

John Carmack on iPhone Development

Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone is out, here are John Carmack’s comments.