Theater in Sighet

UPS/Astral Telecom - the local cable and telephony company have made the effort to bring the Notarra theatre from Bucharest in Sighetu Marmatiei.
They played Valentin Nocolau's "Uzina de placeri SA" and the actors were Virgil Ogasanu, Crenguta Hariton, Dan Bordeianu and Ilie Anda. The director is Alexandru Berceanu and the scenograph Ina Isbasescu.
Although I consider the play not very original (clicheistic I would say) it is really a very good thing that finally a breeze of culture came to Sighet after so many years.
for some more information on the play you van check this link

Hristos a inviat!

Hristos a inviat!

Joel's DAL

I have recently read Joel Spolsky's 'Development Abstraction Layer' collumn on his website http://www.joelonsoftware.com. It felt to me like a dejavu. All the things he has written there are both true and of a great and immediate importance for me in my current position of teamleader.

I feel that generally I have to do more for my people because I am facing with the following problems:

1. Lack of resources - almost everyday I loose time and energy to argue for servers/boards/simulators

2. Acces to documentation - documentation is like an old and very precious spellbook and our distant peers are not eager at allto share their vault with us

3. Versioning system - "I hate Clearcase..."

4. Negotiation of deadlines - no negotiation.

Soreen's blog

I was very pleased to discover that Soreen has finally published his blog.
http://skrammer.blogspot.com/

I am quite sorry that I haven't talked to him for a while as we seldom see each other online.

Nice work, man! I am glad to hear news from you!

Weekend Home

I will go home this weekend. It will be quite hard for me as I will travel by train.
Despite that I have a car (I am a lousy driver) I will go by train because in this way I am saving a about two days as the train goes by night.

Interview @ Microsoft

I was interviewed by Microsoft today. It was a quite interesting experience.

Proof Carying Code (for the Brad fellow that interviewed me)is much more than the signing of the packages...

After the interview I went to "Shonyi" - a small restaurant in Bucharest together with Valentin and Florian.

Weekend @ Stana de Vale

I had a wonderfull weekend @ Stana de Vale. I went there with my colleagues in a Team Building session. I will leave some images to speak for it.