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A long time ago, an English professor taught the class a carol. Since then, every time I think about the sentence: Christmas is coming… I remember that carol. Now, as the title suggests, Christmas is indeed coming (almost knocking at the door… I have a thing for pointing the obvious) and it’s been almost 3 months since I got in the States. Many things have happened since, mostly pleasant.
Some time ago I wrote a post showing how to implement a generic binary search tree data structure in C#. In today’s post I will provide a way of extending the binary data structure in order to be able to use LINQ in order to query it. In order to be able to use LINQ over a custom data structure, all that we have to extend our data structure such that it implements the IEnumerable<T> interface. This is due to the fact that LINQ provides a set of extension methods that extend the functionality of types inheriting from IEnumerable<T>.
The Imagine Cup 2009 competition ended bringing 2 trophies to Romania. This year, we got the first prize in IT Challenge and in the Software Design competitions. It is the first time when Romania manages to get the first prize in Software Design and it represents the result of the hard work and ingenuity of the competitors as well as the people supporting them. (more…)
Summer has come and with it a new edition of the .Net Summer Rally training organized by the Microsoft Student Partners from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. This is the third edition of the course and I am very pleased to say that it draws more and more students interested in improving their coding skills.
As I tried to search something on the web today, I was puzzled to see that something was different. I usually use Live Search to find my way through the web, but this morning things were different. At first I thought that I had some sort of malware program that changed my default search engine in IE, or that I installed some software that changed it. I double checked it, but things were ok on that side. Next, I tried to find other clues on what might have happened and I turned my attention back to the search engine page. After a quick look at it, I noticed on the upper right the message: Live Search is evolving. Welcome to Bing. That was when I realized that (more…)
Microsoft announced at MIX ‘09 on March 18 the release of Silverlight 3 beta. One can download the release from here. Some of the new features that Silverlight will bring in this new release include support for H.264 format, new hardware accelerated graphics and animation features, better search engine optimization and out of browser support.
While reading some things on the Live Search blog, I came across a very interesting EntityCube which is a site informing us about some of the things that are going on in Microsoft Research related to search. Two particular projects sparkled my interest: EntityCube itself, but also Libra Academic Search.
Finally, after 4 and a half years I got to take the last exams at the University. These were fun times, but I look forward to event better times :). Now all that I have to do is to work on my diploma project and… have some fun. Ideally, now I should have more time to blog, and I am cooking a few posts for quite a while, but I delayed them due to lack of time (exams, projects, work, projects, work, work, fun, etc).
I’ve recently stumbled over an interesting article in which it is stated that an attacker can read the keystrokes typed on a wired keyboard from up to 20 meters away. One can read more about the article here. They created a custom device made of simple elements like a radio antenna and some other inexpensive elements.
Today Microsoft launched the public release of Windows 7 Beta 1. This is the next version of the Microsoft operating system that builds on top of the Vista platform. As it is mentioned on the Windows Team Blog, the official name for the Operating System with the codename: Windows 7 will be… (more…)
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