BNR exchange rates

Please select your desired exchange currency to see its chart and then modify the period range as desired. The default range is from 3 January 2006 until now.

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Curs valutar BNR

Selectati valuta dorita pentru a vedea graficul ei si apoi modificati durata dupa dorinta. Perioada initiala este de la 3 ianuarie 2006 pina acum.

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    Uses: Borland Delphi 7 VCL, Microsoft Access Database, User Accessibility Very technical project, using numerous tables from a database to estimate the average growth of a number of forests. I had developed it in Softwise Development company, having given by the client the tree characteristics (maximum age, average growth per year, indexes of growth etc) and the activities that must be done periodically to ensure...
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    Add Silverlight to Wordpress

    As I presented earlier, you can easily create a Silverlight video player and you can see it working pretty nice. Not to mention that it can play  a lot of formats and it is only 344 kb in size!  Now let’s see how this is possible and how can one do it on his website. From the start, Silverlight was meant to be as easiest as possible to develop and deploy. Also, the cross browser (running on all major b...
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  • Scripting.FileSystemObject

    While working on my new pet project, I encountered a situation in which I wanted to save some data to a file. From the Vista Sidebar Gadget point of view, you can do it pretty easy using Scripting.FileSystemObject. As in any Microsoft product, you should ask about necessary credentials. So find out that inside the gadget’s directory, you are free to create, delete, update files with no more rights required than the ...
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    iPhone Startup Tutorial

    This is the start of all iPhone Developers. It will be an extremely brief tutorial meant just for those which are at the absolute start of iPhone development. First checks: 1. System requirements: verify if the iPhone sdk needs are met. 2. Go to Apple’s iPhone Developer Center , then download the SDK. 3. As you’ll need some experience and code to work on, download the Hello World sample application. 4. Dou...
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  • How to create an favicon.ico and improve your website

    As a business card represents your business or your position in it, the same applies to a website. By using a Favicon to you will improve your website personalization and when users will bookmark you, the picture will always remember them about you. Thus, the favicon is critical to it’s identity. We might consider the favicon placed in a website is like your photo in your ID Card. As the photo enhances the...
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  • Usability

    Is Microsoft learning basic principles of Usability? Corrina Black, lead designer for the Silverlight platform, presents usability principles implementation in the newest Silverlight 3. She is focused very much on design, so no coding best practices will be heard here. Only good advices on how to create an appealing, easy to understand interface. She started by stating the design principles and explain them....
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  • XCode: Modal windows – Google maps

    From time to time, you’ll need to show in your iPhone application a view over the entire application without navigating and destroying your workflow of the application. I’ll present the mechanism of modal windows as it is implemented in Cocoa Touch. Lets take a real case: you have a view in which you want to input an address. Near the address you have a button which will show the user the Map centered...
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  • Wordpress - How to Delete Existing Post Revisions

    This is the second part of managing Wordpress feature of post revisions, for the  users who had disabled or turned off post revisions tracking or versions history feature. As you already know, this feature exists in WordPress (starting with WordPress 2.6). After disable it (of course, if you really need to do that), it also make sense to also delete and remove all existing stored post revisions. By doing so,...
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    Research on LASIK

    When starting such an important process as LASIK surgery (on which your sight is affected) it is crucial to get as many information as you can. You might want to bing it, to Google it and also ask your friends about it. Also discuss with professionals! You never know when you will find someone who already had it and can give their own personal impression. I found a lot of information on the Softpedia forum, in an...
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    Totalsoft

      Position: Senior Developer I had the pleasure of working in Totalsoft Charisma team between the February, 2004 and the November, 2005. In almost two years, I had the opportunity of working on a large variety of the company’s products, but mainly I was a key member in the team developing the Charisma Business Commander product. Charisma BC is the solution which brought TotalSoft’s recognition on the mar...
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  • Flash UI changes

    Since last week the Flash application changed- I added support for numerical keys for hitting. We mapped the numerical keys 1 to 6 to the 6 animals positions that can be hit. This way, it is enough to press a key to simulate the throw of a ball. The reason behind this application architectural change is that we needed an smart way to simulate the sensors that were hit, without actually having the entire setup in...
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  • Agile vs Waterfall

    Waterfall model: Predictive model Optimized for a single purpose Hard to change eXtreme Programming Reusability Easy to change direction But no idea of next 6 months ...
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    Import CSV file and query it with LINQ

    Assume that you have an plain text, old Comma Separated Values file filled with your precious export from a legacy system. How can you process it easily now? The first answer that comes to mind is to parse it and load it into a datatable and later process it by using DataTable.Select() method. But this approach has some limitations – like splitting data into several tables and then join them. One would imagine t...
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    1 month since LASIK

    So it’s been now 1 month since I had my LASIK surgery. In this month I had a very strict program with my drops provided by EyeStar center. I used them as prescribed. I believe that my eyes didn’t need so much artificial tears, but if the doctor says it is important you have to take them! During my reading of the file that I received from Eyestar I noticed that they prohibit very clear to rub your eyes...
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    Ruby on Rails & Agile development

       Starting from the Fall of 2002 a close collaboration begin between the RWTH Aachen University, University of Bonn, the Fraunhofer Institute Centre Birlinghoven Castle IZB and the University of Applied Sciences Bonn Rhein-Sieg . They joined forces to establish the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT) who, as a collaboration, ranked the first university in Computer Science...
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    LINQ wonder world

    I am sure that, if you are a developer, at some point in your career heard about and asked yourself: what is LINQ? If not, there’s no problem, you’ll find out now : LINQ comes from language-integrated query and it is a collection of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It helps developers by extending both C# and Visual Basic, adding native que...
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  • Wordpress – Database backup and restore

    From time to time, you’ll need to get a backup of your MySQL database and install it on a different machine – as I needed when reinstalling my Windows 7. I wanted to do something simple, as the last time. But now the database sql file is 11 Mb as opposed to merely 2 MB last time. But I thought that this would be a breeze for the MySQL interface that I use and enjoy – HeidiSQL. It’s free, easy to use and user frie...
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  • Brainstorming 2

    In a previous post I explained the facts that forced us to re-think our project idea. Basically, our cool idea of an iPhone tied to a skateboard to create a exertion game require too much programming time. So we searched another idea who is required to be simpler and easy to be implemented in the remaining time.So we got us a round table (the ones in BIT cafeteria are the best!) and put our minds to work.First step...
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    Create a simple HTML .MOV player

    As a Ruby developer, I work quite a lot with their “special” plugins called gems. The nice fact about the gems is that they bring lots of functionality. By example, there’s a gem for paginating a collection who takes just few parameters and not only that finds out how many objects the collection has, but also how to split them, generating the corresponding links and serving to the original container (that used to ...
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    "Windows Live Writer" won't upload images to WordPress

    I’ve used Wordpress for almost two years now and today I faced a big challenge: I couldn’t post my articles who contained images to Word press with my Windows LiveWriter application. Note: This comes after a long period in which I didn’t upgrade the plugins of my Wordpress application ( I had 11 of them pending upgrade). Also, I had a full system reinstall (you know, the one with formatting the system drive). After ...
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    CursValutar

    Uses: Borland Delphi 7 VCL, HTTP, HTML Parsing, JavaScript, PHP server side script The program parses web pages from Romanian National Bank site (www.bnr.ro), offering the latest currency ratings, among with a currency calculator, a very useful converter. The program was designed by me in Softwise Development company as a low resource program, hidden in the tray bar of Windows, while periodically checking BNR site...
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    Mergus Product Manager

    Uses: Borland Delphi 7 VCL, Microsoft Access Database, User Accessibility This application was developed by me for Softwise Development to accomplish the needs of a client in administering its furniture chain of shops. So, as Project manager, I have designed a solution, keeping in mind the possible evolution of this enterprise. I was using a system of managing clients and suppliers, the available furniture, the...
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    Rhetorik und Präsentationsworkshop

    On 9th and 10th of June I had two days of Presentation and Retoric workshop. Our teachers were Anton Schweizer and Christopher Schleiden, both being Microsoft Student Senior Partners. We were 5 students(unfortunately, one is missing from the picture), most of us Junior Students Partners. We were also preparing our first workshops. This training combined theoretical and practical knowledge, helping us in creating a...
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  • How to add a nice jQuery slider

      This weekend fun was adding to my website the cool sliding control from Jérémie Tisseau website. That pretty it was, I immediately started thinking it as a container to my BNR exchange rate page. The coded worked perfectly, with few modifications. Firstly, Wordpress uses the $ operator for Prototype library, so if you want to add your jQuery library the invocation to Wordpress Firebug will report the error “...
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    DocVault

    Uses: Borland Delphi 7 VCL, Windows API Data security is the priority of this program, mainly used for sending important data trough unsecured mediums - like internet or e-mail. The program uses state of the art algorithms in encrypting area (MD5, RSA algorithms with encrypting on different key sizes) and was developed while working in Softwise Development. The program is creating a file, the result of encrypting...
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  • UIImageView setImage problem

    While working for this semester’s CSCW lab project, I encountered a strange situation: no matter what I did, the UIImageView didn’t load the image. After some digging on the Internet about this, I found out that first thing to look for is whether you're sending the setImage message to the UIImageView instance you expect. Being newbie in XCode and Apple’s technologies in general, I forgot to use...
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Archive for March, 2009

URL Rewrite = mod_rewrite

Mar 29th

Posted by Radu Poenaru in Conferences

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SEO tools and mod_rewrite were out for a while. They do amazing things, like enabling humans to have a crisp view about the contents of a link. Unfortunately, until IIS 7 Microsoft didn’t had nothing comparable as default, but some companies struggled to offer this basic service.The two options were the rather cheap IISRewrite and the free ISAPI Rewrite Filter.

Mr Thomas Deml, Lead Program Manager in the IIS team, responsible for Security, Performance, Shared Hosting, presents in his overview about how SEO can be added to your application in his breakout session in MIX 09

Come learn SEO best practices and More >

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Usability

Mar 23rd

Posted by Radu Poenaru in Conferences

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Is Microsoft learning basic principles of Usability?

Corrina Black, lead designer for the Silverlight platform, presents usability principles implementation in the newest Silverlight 3. She is focused very much on design, so no coding best practices will be heard here. Only good advices on how to create an appealing, easy to understand interface.

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MIX09 Scott Hanselman’s FILE|New Project …

Mar 22nd

Posted by Radu Poenaru in Conferences

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Scott Hanselman had a presentation at Mix 09 conference – File | New Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC. This was in its unique style – fun,  rich in content, tricks, advices but most of all was fun.

This year he managed to create a new type of presentation – without the actual presentation! No more constrained to some slides, just him, Visual Studio and the audience. Yes, the audience – who seemed to absorb any words spoken there, helping Scott with few advices in some key points.

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Adamo by Dell – contralaptop to MacBook?

Mar 21st

Posted by Radu Poenaru in Others

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The newest line launched by Dell, having as target the MacBook fans,  seems to meet the expectations. Slim, slick, powerful, with quite big battery autonomy, seems the perfect response to the Mac version.   Since I can’t compare the systems more that by looks, seems that Dell slaps the Apple in face – it is the first time when a device really levels to the looks of an Apple MacBook. Crisp screen, clean design, lightweight – seems that the managers have a new shiny toy at their disposal. I will let you discover the rest…   Or directly on Dell More >

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Scripting.FileSystemObject

Mar 8th

Posted by Radu Poenaru in My work

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While working on my new pet project, I encountered a situation in which I wanted to save some data to a file. From the Vista Sidebar Gadget point of view, you can do it pretty easy using Scripting.FileSystemObject.

As in any Microsoft product, you should ask about necessary credentials. So find out that inside the gadget’s directory, you are free to create, delete, update files with no more rights required than the ones that the gadget already owns.

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Working in Fraunhofer Institute of Technology

Mar 2nd

Posted by Radu Poenaru in My work

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Starting today, I work as a Student Helper in Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. The branch from Sankt Augustin, which I joined, is focused on the research of human-centered computing in a process context. I will activate in the Cooperation and Community Support department, which deals with the research and development of community portals, (mobile) communities and cooperation, Internet-based groupware, cooperative knowledge management, application service providing for cooperative work and virtual teams, rating and recommender systems and cooperative learning environments.

The head of the department is Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD and I will work closely with Mr. Nils Jeners, researcher in FIT. More >

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