People are always talking about trends. Before starting to write this article, I did not have the curiosity to understand the deep meaning of the word. And as the best source is always the Dex , I started reading the simple and trivial explanations presented there. A trend represents a natural predisposition for something, a tendency, an attraction, a conscious action toward a defined purpose. Another definition describes the trend as an evolution of someone in a certain sense. Starting from this formulation I thought about what would be the connection between the trend and my work field

The Archimedes project is made of a mixture of innovative, integrated and ambitious measures for a clean environment, energy efficiency, lasting urban public transportation and, therefore, a meaningful impact over the politics for energy consumption, transport and environment protection. AROBS Transilvania Software has offered a complete solution – hardware and software – for the fluidization and creation of an enhanced comfort during the process of ticketing for public transportation in the city of Iasi, the beneficiary of this European Project.

Dependency Injection (DI) is a specialized form of Inversion of Control(IoC) – a broader OOP concept where objects are coupled by an external source at runtime – usually a container – also referred as IoC container. Using IoC we can select specific implementation of the dependencies at runtime which is a major advantage when dealing with Unit Testing for example. Injecting mock dependencies becomes trivial leading to easily test the application in isolation.

There are new processors coming. Two cores seem to be past, even on mobile; GPUs can be used for computational operations, and they have many cores - 1500+ these days, how do we use them all? What’s next, how do we keep the development pace with this shiny new hardware? Clouds are getting bigger today, we have processing clouds and data clouds, they can handle more requests than the human mind can imagine. We have lots of concurrent users on a single server, which needs to be fed with data. How do we handle so many requests?

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” said Confucius. These would be the words that describe Marius Corîci the most. In 2003 he started doing business in the plumbing industry and co-founded ITS Group, a franchise for Romstal Company, the biggest plumbing installations retailer from South-Eastern Europe. In 2007 he moved into Artificial Intelligence field and founded Intelligentics, a group for Natural Language Processing. Now, he is very focused on infosec and got involved in all the biggest independent security projects in Romania

iCloud is a set of interfaces and services provided by Apple, for sharing data among different instances of the application running on different devices, in an easy to use and safe manner. To be able to work with iCloud, first you will need an App ID configured for iCloud. In the XCode project entitlements should be enabled and also iCloud needs to be set up on the deployment device (iCloud app cannot be tested on a simulator). Detailed configuration steps are not subject of this article, details can be found on https://developer.apple.com.

Meet Gogu! Gogu is a funny character, cynical at times, an introvert to whom the interior monologue is an alternative to the real life. With Gogu’s help, we explore different aspects of a project manager’s life trying to find and suggest solutions easy to understand and to apply. As Gogu would say: “almost common sense”. We invite you to follow Gogu and send him your comments and suggestions.

Since 2002, from the release of Minority Report (directed by Steven Spielberg) in which the main character John Anderton (Tom Cruise) interacts with a computer using a glove and different hand gestures, the technological world started talking about a new way to use computers, where a Natural User Interface – NUI would replace the traditional ways (mouse and keyboard) of human-computer interaction. During the following years, different projects and similar concepts were announced, but only after seven years, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 (E3), Microsoft announced Project Natal, focusing on the idea that „You are the controller”

Beginning of 2008, the company I was working for decided we need to become agile and use Scrum. I didn’t quite understand why we should change our way of working especially that we used to follow SDLC (software development life cycle): requirements, design, implementation, testing, maintenance and releases were scheduled at 3-4 months intervals using waterfall.

Functional Programming (FP) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming) is an old concept developed in the 1950s when Lisp language was created. It has its roots in” lambda calculus”, a formal system in mathematical logic, first formulated by Alonzo Church in the 1930s (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ Lambda_calculus). The functions are the main element in FP. Programmers generally work with immutable data structures and pure functions. Functional languages usually provide a set of tools that make it easier to work with functions.