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		<title>Theory vs Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve recently come across an interesting article detailing an existing bug in the binary search implementation presented in Programming Pearls (Addison-Wesley, 1986; Second Edition, 2000). The article can be found here and it presents a bug that can easily be overlooked. Many of us may be very familiar with the problem and many a times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying a Laptop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I’ve tried to purchase a laptop for a friend from Sony Style. All was good initially. I was able to pay for it, got an order confirmation and a delivery estimate. I waited for the assigned time to receive the laptop. After the time has elapsed (and I still didn’t get the laptop) I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas is coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing an Iterator for Binary Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine Cup 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.Net Summer Rally 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.cornelrat.ro/?p=41</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Search is Evolving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silverlight 3 Beta</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search</title>
		<link>http://www.cornelrat.ro/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
 
EntityCube is a project that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Exams</title>
		<link>http://www.cornelrat.ro/?p=33</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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