Thursday, August 12, 2010

Joy!

Sometimes the day gives me surprises, some of them are able to make my day brighter!
Today is one of those bright days... I have just learnt that one of my dear friends has been selected for a Microsoft position. I' very glad for him as he is one of the most gifted developers I've ever seen!

P!=NP

According to this paper it seems that P!=NP.
Another mathematical hard problem is apparently solved.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Latest

Not much those days.
I have worked on some ugly and old C++ code - it hasn't been maintained since 2005. I had to port it from Solaris/SPARC to Linux/x86-64. With some hacks (especially on the C++ dialect used by Forte and not understood by g++) I made it work. In the end I wanted to give it a bump and I stubbed the old traces implementation towards a log4cxx one.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Jonathan's Schwartz still at Oracle


He is still there,looking up to the...Sun...

It seems that the Oracle rebranding forgot the ex CEO on some pages.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Vacation - Part II

A short trip home in Maramures.
The tallest wooden buildings in Romania:

The wooden church of Surdesti (73m)

The wooden church of Sapanta-Peri monastery (78m)