# The elusive blogosphere

Posted: Nov 2, 2006, under IT today, Romania. Add a comment!

Blogging seems to have reached a new level of awareness in Romania. It's in the news, it's cool, and recently it's in the sights of advertising people. So it looks like a good time to debunk some of the myths surrounding the ever elusive "blogosphere".

# Cookie separation in modern browsers

Posted: Oct 31, 2006, under Standards, DHTML. Add a comment!

A short analysis of how modern browsers separate session cookies between their different instances.

# If you build it, they will come

Posted: Oct 27, 2006, under IT today. Add a comment!

Lots of websites built for a small investment become huge names with millions of users and get bought for many millions of dollars. What makes these sites so good? I think I can tell you.

# Special characters, on the fly

Posted: Oct 11, 2006, under ODP, DHTML. Add a comment!

Are you away from your regular computer or notebook and you find yourself in need to generate certain special characters for a webpage? The solution is simple: use a bookmarklet that will bind those characters to certain keyboard shortcuts.

# chml srucnoc: spam Google, win a prize

Posted: Aug 18, 2006, under SEO, Romania. Add a comment!

A Romanian Web-hosting and design business (CHML Web Services) came up with an interesting self-promotion plan under the guise of a SEO contest. The idea is rather simple. The company offers about $1,300 in cash and several hosting packages (from their own hosting services) as prizes. Each contestant has to join the contest with one single [...]

# The $100 laptop not good enough for Romania

Posted: Jul 26, 2006, under IT today, Romania, Technology. Add a comment!

The Romanian IT Minister, Zsolt Nagy, has advised negatively a project meant to bring the $100 laptop to every school kid and teacher in the country. His blatantly misinformed statement claims that the laptop's low hardware specs make it unsuitable for any real work and that it hasn't yet been "tested" in a practical environment.

# Web content gone terribly wrong

Posted: Jul 24, 2006, under Romania, Morals&Politics. Add a comment!

A political refugee's childhood picture has been used without permission by a newspaper in a context that implies, ironically, that she had been one of the children who have collaborated with the infamous secret agency "Securitatea" during the Ceauşescu dictatorship regime.

# Romanian copyright enforcement: level 2

Posted: Jul 12, 2006, under IT today, Romania, Morals&Politics. Add a comment!

In the light of the recent copyright enforcement operations in Romania, a counterfeiting and piracy international Congress suddenly apears in a grim, hopefully misguided, posture. Intention or incompetence?

# Code injection on the Web

Posted: Jun 30, 2006, under Security. Add a comment!

This article presents an overview of code injection on the Web, in general, and describes some types of code injection, in particular. The point of view is that of a PHP programmer, for obvious reasons: PHP is a loose-typed language and has features that can be easily misused by novices.

# Romanians learn about copyright

Posted: May 26, 2006, under IT today, Romania, Morals&Politics. Add a comment!

After having swept the rug from under the feet of legitimate IT businesses in Romania, the ever resourceful Romanian government now tackles another long standing IT-related problem: software and music or movie piracy among end-users. By force, naturally.

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