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 key figures of the Hungarian branches of major IT companies, such as IBM, Novell and even Google.
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Jun
05
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 3D fabber is all refreshing and inherently physical. Creating something that somewhat resembles an early version of photography using living bacteria.
But now I'm back, ready to take on commercial-grade software engineering challenges that we tackle here at EU Edge. I was missing this field actually, working on pragmatic problems, making people's lives happy.
Apr
04
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 'manage' them - that is, have them under control. The first time I encountered this comparison was reading The Hacker's Diet by AutoDesk founder John Walker.
The solution, as most of the time, is in between.
Feb
26
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 also very interesting technologically, as it involves cellular automaton models, Zigbee wireless mesh-networked sensor motes, Augmented Reality viewports among other things.
Feb
23
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 exciting to speak with these guys and to absorb the knowledge and wisdom they hold. Craig's repeated reference to the 14 principles of "The Toyota Way" really reminded me of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of 5 Rings.
"I'm not worthy" is all I can mutter :)
(And thanks to Stefan for inviting me in the first place) :)
Dec
22
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. And X-Plane is such - a closed source application, available in 32 bit binaries only.
Despite the issue being raised earlier on the linux-kernel list, this was not yet fixed in the kernel. So I posted a patch again, hoping for the best.