Radu Poenaru
I am a Senior Software Engineer and I really love programming, no matter if it is C#, SQL, LINQ, Javascript, ASP.Net, Flash, Action Script, Flex, Borland Delphi and not to forget Peoplesoft and Navision, and lately Apple's iPhone Cocoa Xcode and InterfaceBuilder. This place contains valuable tips and tricks for improving your knowledge and improve your user's experience! Be welcome to follow me on Twitter, subscribe to my feed and post comments.
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SharePoint 2010 – a technical overview for software developer
Mar 9th
Recently I started looking for jobs, because my master thesis will come to an end and I am too dynamic to loose time after graduation searching for the perfect job.
Since I am a certified ASP .Net 3.5 professional, I started looking in this direction – but almost anyone associated ASP with SharePoint. Since I didn’t had any clue about SharePoint, I enjoyed very much the opportunity to take part in a technical workshop on this theme.
So on a very beautiful day of 8th of March (yes, on the Woman’s day), I woke up and traveled to Köln, where the workshop was held. At 10 AM the workshop, presented by Šenaj Lelic, maguro DataAssist GmbH and seconded by Peter Kirchner, Program Manager ISV for Developer Platform & Strategy Group.
The workshop was focused on different features, starting with a technical overview of SharePoint 2010 which prepared the audience including the presentation of new features in SharePoint 2010 which were interesting for us, developers.
My first day at CeBIT
Mar 3rd
As part of the Microsoft Student Partners I was invited to take part yet again from a Social Media Reporting team. This time is the CeBIT, a huge conference about consumer electronics. We arrived yesterday, on 2nd of March, to prepare ourselves for the challenge.
In the morning we just scouted the area, looking for interesting places to blog, tweet and make movies about. If you haven’t been to CeBIT, you should understand that it is really HUGE – there are around 30 big display areas in which you can be lost without a map.
There were a lot of nice prizes there : More >
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – a business overview for software developer
Feb 8th
I am a certified SQL 2005 Technology Specialist. While this means a lot from a professional point of view, the new technologies come toward us, developers, too fast sometimes. It is quite a while since SQL 2008 was launched, and now SQL 2008 R2 brings its novelties. One good developer must keep up to date with its skills, otherwise the quality and quantity of his or hers work will suffer. New technologies means usually more productive developers – and I wish to stay on the wave instead under it.
Improving Coding4Fun’s AboutPrompt
Feb 4th
While creating the Windows Phone7 version of my Master Thesis project, I needed to show some custom dialogs. Since Coding4Fun has some very nice dialogs, I explored the way that they might be customized to fit my needs. I needed a quick solution to a pressing problem.
I got in touch with this controls through WinPhoneGeek’s article Coding4Fun Toolkit for WP7 Overview and Getting Started, where he presented from the eagle’s eye the controls in the package. I was interested more in AboutPrompt control, but unfortunately he didn’t had it presented in the detail. More >
Adding new Social icons to the Mystique theme
Jan 8th
I use my blog to record and share my knowledge, but also to present to possible employers my skills. I use it like a marketing tool for my persona. For this, I need to make available not only the RSS and Twitter account, but also resume profiles like Xing, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Since I am using WordPress and I know a little bit of PHP and MySQL I wanted to customize my current theme.But some time ago I’ve read that they don’t encourage you to customize directly the chosen theme, but instead create your own child theme, with the desired customizations. This way, when the theme will be updated, you won’t loose neither time nor brains trying to redo all the modifications.
7 easy steps to use Webmatrix and WordPress local development
Jan 6th
Almost all good developers that I know have some kind of repository of their code. Mine is my blog, this blog. Stay with me and you’ll find out how to easily be able to create your local version of WordPress, customize and test your plugins.
For´this you’ll need to follow the next steps:
- Go to Webmatrix official website and download the Web Platform Installer which will install for you not only Webmatrix itself, but also a lot of useful tools like an integrated webserver, Internet Information Services Express, PHP interpretor and its connectors just to name a few. But you can also use it to add new features like ASP .Net MVC3! More >
Applications for Windows Phone 7 Contest
Dec 7th
In my latest Windows Phone 7 workshop that I presented in UniBonn, I promised that we will have a contents. By now two people created and submitted their applications. What makes me happy even more than their interest is the fact that they used techniques not presented in the workshop – location services, WP7 sensors, persistence in IsolatedStorage database as alternative to IsolatedStorage file.
While reading the code, I realized that would have been better to have a two day workshop in which to also present and demo other features of the Windows Phone 7 like geolocation and its mocking, shakes, tile updates, push notifications being only few of the examples. But fortunately there is still time, so I will plan this for my future workshops.
Here they are in their submission order:
Imagine Cup STC 2010 day 2
Dec 6th
Back to the Student Technology Conference 2010 – second day – again I had a full schedule: attending web development session and after lunch the company startup coaching event. After a nice over-night sleep, I was full of energy to continue attending the presentations! You can read about the first day here.
First I went to the Axel Schulz’s presentation about Cloud computing, where he presented us the options that we have when using the Cloud system – Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), Platform as a Service (PAAS) and Software as a Service (SAAS)
Imagine Cup STC 2010
Dec 5th
Microsoft Student Partners organized this weekend a very cool event, meant to make easier for the students to enroll to Imagine Cup 2011 and have also good results at it. The agenda was pretty condensed, having 3 tracks in 2 days. The tracks were wisely organized, allowing each one of us to focus on its own area of interest.
But don’t imagine that all was about technology. It really was more than this – we got coaching also for improving presentation skills and creating a business plan – Microsoft offers not only BizSpark project for startups, but also coaching so this startups would turn into a success!
So in a beautiful yet snowy winter morning me and two or my MSP colleagues left Bonn in Frankfurt direction. After two hours and some stops for unfreezing our car’s windshield (the owner forgot to put in some anti-freezing liquid such that the sprinklers didn’t work because of the frozen water along the tubes) we arrived in the beautiful Castle Hoechst.
There the organization of event was perfect: we were surrounded by breakfast. Coffee, tea, cakes, fruits – everything one needs to start a good day. More >
Follow-up of Windows Phone 7 workshop
Nov 28th
After presenting my latest WP7 workshop, I have quite a few nice impressions: all students were eager to learn, to discover, lots of questions were asked. We created a nice Twitter application based on the default Panorama template, learning about XAML and its advantages, how to use Blend to enhance the user visual experience, how to help our designer colleagues by creating mocked data such that while we develop they design on real data, how to use MVVM – in one word, a real startup in Windows Phone 7 developer career.
And, as usual, we didn’t finish at 16 as proposed because the enthusiasm of the participants. Eager to know, eager to learn- how can we possible fix a deadline?
The thing that spiced up our workshop was the nice contest that me as representative of Microsoft Student Partners and our Microsoft leaders setup for our colleagues: the chance of winning a Microsoft Certification Voucher!
Underneath are some pictures from the event:
