Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Last week I took part in in the establishment of the Hungarian Open Standards Alliance, as a founding member, and became vice president of the organization. The Alliance will focus on promoting open standards in the Hungarian IT industry, both in the commercial and government procurement areas. Founding members include ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Having spent 3 months as artist in residence at The Arts & Genomics Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, also collaborating with the Waag FabLab in Amsterdam gave me a good opportunity to work in different fields than usual. Working in a biology lab in a sterile environment, working with a ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Now is the second time, that the fundamental difference and source of all major conflict between an engineers and managers approach is revealed to me as I'm reading Kaizen and The Art of Creative Thinking by Shigeo Shingo: engineers, they want to 'fix' problems, while for managers, it's sufficient to ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
A project I'm doing in my spare time, called Corpora has won the opportunity last week to appear at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale in the Hungarian Pavilion.
Very thrilled and excited to show our project at such a prestigious venue.
The project is interesting from an architectural standpoint, but is ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Yesterday I had the rare opportunity to have dinner with Craig Larman and Bas Vodde at Kőleves here in Budapest - two demi-gods of Agile Development & Scrum. I've been a long time fan of Craig's books, and have several editions of his Applying UML and Patterns title.
It was very ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
After having trouble setting up my selection of CH joysticks to work with X-Plane on my Gentoo Linux based laptop, I did some research. It seems that the issue is a well known one: on 64 bit Linux systems, joystick control events are not passed through to 32 bit applications. ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
The December Budapest New Technology Meetup went on fine yesterday. We had a nice series of presentations, ranging from an android robot to flash streaming server. Moreover, our very own Gergely Kis also had a presentation on the Google Android project.
Now we only have to wait until January for the ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Steve Wozniak stopped by in town yesterday afternoon at the Millenáris Park, Budapest. The steadily growing EU Edge Mac contingent went to see him in person and listen to him reminiscing about the fascinating story of life at Apple in the early days. He also gave us some ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
On Satruday I held a small lecture on the Regional Conference on Embedded and Ambient Systems, where I presented my earlier work using MoteIV T-Mote Sky motes utilizing Zigbee wireless mesh networking. I have used these small motes in the Copora installation at the Yamaguchi Center in Yamaguchi, Japan earlier ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Today was the day I gave away my beloved NeXTstation Mono computer to the Hungarian Museum for Science and Technology. It was a hard decision to make. I started learning computer languages like C and Objective-C on NeXTSTEP OS as well as using a professional graphical user interface and ...
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