I attended Microsoft’s TechDays Professional Developers Summit in Bucharest on December 9^th last year and it’s high time (it’s been almost a whole month now! Sorry about that!) to jot down some impressions on the thing. Overall it was a fun and engaging experience...

Every year in June takes place in Zurich one of the most important conferences in the Java community. This year Rares Barbantan attended all three days of the conference and in this post are described some of the impressions and information he gathered during his stay.

The Business Intelligence systems collect data that present a coherent picture of the enterprise at a point in time, integrate and process it in an analytical mode. The resulted information, presented...

I was talking the other day with some colleagues of mine about the hurdles that they need to overcome each week in the development, and I could not help thinking about how much the software...

ISDC was invited to hold presentations at .Net Summer Rally 2009 event, organized by Microsoft Student Partners UTCN. We had two sessions. Yesterday my colleagues Dani Bica and Tudor Turcu presented ORM concepts, with demos...

As I said on my previous post I was given the opportunity to be at DevDays in The Netherlands. If you haven't read it, I suggest you start with it. You...

Together with my colleague, Daniela, we've had the opportunity, offered by ISDC, to be at Dutch Microsoft DevDays ‘09. The conference was held in The Hague at World Forum Center, a...

Context What is Sakai? The Sakai Community develops and distributes the open-source Sakai CLE, an enterprise-ready collaboration and courseware management platform that provides users with a suite of learning, portfolio, library and project tools. Why...

As most of you probably know, ISDC was the host of the last RONUA (www.ronua.ro ) meeting, organized at 21 november 2008. Even if the main theme was "TechEd 2008 Review", due to the speed...

On 13, 14 January Transylvania JUG has facilitated a presentation on Scrum in Cluj-Napoca, the speaker was Gerald Williams, advocate and practitioner of agile practices and Certified Scrum Master (owner of http://www.scrumlabs.com and  http://www.projectlabs.co.uk/ ). At presentation...

Intro Despite the fact that  SOA and real-time integration have evolved, many interfaces are still flat file-based and therefore best processed through a batch mode.  Nevertheless, there is no de facto or industry-standard approach to...