Random musings in IT

  I just ventilated some of the frustration about lazy and worthless recruiters in a previous article. To prove a point, today I've received the emblematic call, where the caller committed so many of the annoying mistakes, I was not even annoyed by it, it was amazing! (Sorry about misusing the…

This is the tenth article in the attempt to form a blogging habit They say you cannot teach old dogs new tricks. It has been proven wrong many times, but the idea is, that once you have your own ways, it's hard to deviate from them. Last summer I had plenty of time for experimentation. I've also…

This is the ninth post in my attempt to form a blogging habit. As I promised in the article about recruiters I follow up with some of my favorite real life interview stories. tl;dr The (mis)conduct of an interview can give an insight of how the company works. If you see too many warning signs,…

This is the ninth article in the attempt to form a habit. One week after the start, and I feel it's time for some retrospective. In the past days, I have been posting eight articles on various topics. So far it was quite easy, as I was rolling a few ideas ahead of me, for a while. It is becoming…

This is the eight post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. Recruiters and headhunters have always had to find inventive ways to poach talent. As demand for experts in the IT sector increases, it is getting more and more difficult to get the open positions filled. Since the demand for…

This is the seventh post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. Starting up your GTD system in Freeplane is quite easy, all you need is an inbox, a place to put your projects to,  a place to put the items for review, and optionally a place to place your archive tasks. It only takes a few…

This is the sixth post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. When you mail order something really cheap from China, you must prepare to make compromises, or even some modifications. That was the case with this HDMI to VGA converter as well. I got it as a shot in the dark, as I didn't know…

Thanks to Miguel Molina's translation efforts, the add-on is now available in  Spanish! As usual the add-on is available on the release site, or on GitHub. You can use this direct link to download the add-on.

I really hated having to switch languages, when I switched to writing from Hungarian and English. Many times I was writing mail, or working on an article in English, when a Hangouts message popped up where I had all my words underlined by the English spellchecker. Finally after over a year in…

This is the fourth post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. The last couple of months, I've been looking for a new position, after a short sabbatical leave. In these months I've realized, how underdeveloped the state of enterprise architecture is in Hungary. In this article, I'll try to…