Time dude is a full 3D flying shooter, game which appeared because a handful of enthusiastic people who also have a passion for gaming – artists and programmers – asked themselves “what if we created a game ourselves?” Helped by a powerful engine, professional software and bubbling over with high spirits, we started what seemed the simplest and funniest way to spend your time: shooting prehistoric cartoon people from a plane made of wood and straw. The game does not require previous experience with its type or any other game. All you have to do is fly your shuttle on the screen, by using only one finger. The story says that John Q.

In the IT domain – as, in fact, in any business area – you will find yourself in the position of signing contracts with your partners (contracts for website development, software outsourcing or application development, etc.). But, sometimes, until you get to the moment of signing, you have to negotiate certain aspects of the contract with your partner, in order to reconcile your interests. As you probably already know, contract negotiation does not necessarily involve applying a classical method or formula. But, most of the time, the process of reaching a common point, accepted by both parties, is different for each case.

“Ssiga –ssiga…”, Gogu smiled when remembering his holiday and he abandoned himself to the reverie: turquoise sea, fine sand beach, pine trees and sun on a permanently blue sky. God, I’m sure this island is the Heaven on Earth…
“What are you hissing about, Gogu?... Has any blonde memory come to haunt you? I thought you said you were having troubles with the Golf project … But you’re smiling, like you have no work to do.” Misu’s words broke Gogu’s reverie.

Bucharest, September 3rd 2014 – How to Web, the most important event dedicated to innovation, entrepreneurship and technology in South Eastern Europe, reaches its 5th edition this year and will take place on November 20 and 21 in Bucharest. Having a new format, this year’s conference will bring world renowned technology professionals in front of an estimated audience of more than 1000 persons. Moreover, the best 32 startups in the region will compete for the 20.000 USD cash prizes offered at the 3rd edition of Startup Spotlight, competition and orientation program for early stage technology teams.

Until now, we have talked two times in the pages of Today Software Magazine about TYPO3, the open source enterprise CMS that conquered Germany, once last year when preparing for the first edition of the “TYPO3 East Europe” conference, and in the August edition, when my colleague Tomita Militaru presented TYPO3 Neos, the new CMS that comes with the promise to make a revolution out of the content editing experience.

The management world we are living in is constantly evolving. New frameworks, new methodologies are invented, re-invented and adapted in order to satisfy the need of a very dynamic market. Every time something new appears, first we fight against it and after its value it’s proved by some pioneers we are ready to make that thing the new religion for us.

In this article I’ll talk about the storage system that integrates the best with the needs of a datacenter. To debate the pros and cons when choosing a storage solution for a datacenter I must write a short classification and history of storage systems first. By their location, the storage systems are classified into two categories:
A. Local Data Storage: these filesystems reside on a local peripheral device:

Apple is known for always trying to impress with the best quality in their products and services. They have done it again, once the new programming language called Swift was revealed. It has been in the works for the past 4 years, and while it started as a side project for Chris Lattner, an employee of Apple, it has easily gained trust with the top execs of the company, having assigned a great team to help finishing it.

This article is strongly connected with the one about the HipHop virtual machine, published in the issue nr. 21 of this magazine. When Mark Zuckerberg wrote the first source code lines for Facebook, he had to choose a programming language in which to develop his new social networking site. He chose PHP because, as we all know, it has a very fast feedback loop: you make a change, save the file, press F5 in your browser and you can instantly see the effect. This is possible because the programmer doesn’t have to go through any compilation step. Another reason is that PHP is dynamic: it doesn’t ask for explicit types for the variables within the code.

If you are a ‘true’ developer, then you’ve heard about ‘Clean Code’ written by Robert C. Martin. In many companies, this book has become part of the developer’s bible. In combination with ‘Clean Coder’, I would say that these two books are mandatory for all developers. I will start a series of articles related to this topic. If you’ve already read this book, then it is a good occasion to refresh your memory. For others, it is the perfect moment to discover how good code should look like. All the main ideas are from ‘Clean Code’. You can look at this series of articles as a summary of the book itself.