tudy .ro – Tudor Damian
I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
Bing!
May 31st
So the wraps came off “Bing” and Microsoft’s Live Search replacement (and hopefully worthy Google competitor) was finally announced. Unfortunately, the service isn’t actually live yet. However, we’ve still got this introductory video:
Cool Microsoft Forefront ads
Jul 3rd
If you like the color orange and like to see IT geeks beating up on zombies, secret agents, ninjas and aliens, head to the Forefront site. You’ll also find a free public beta download of the integrated security software that was released quietly earlier this year. But honestly, even just the zombies, secret agents, ninjas and aliens are definitely worth your while. 
Office Ergonomics
Mar 31st
Amit Agarwal from the Digital Inspiration weblog dug up a great interactive slideshow covering the ins and outs of good workspace ergonomics.
The presentation is full of workspace tips we’ve heard before, but the interactive element, which explains why a position is good or bad, is very helpful. The pain and stress risks section also offers a lot of great info, especially if you’ve dealt with repetitive stress problems in the past. 
Brand new to .NET programming?
Mar 10th
Microsoft’s new Beginner Developer Learning Center is designed specifically for absolute beginners to programming. Learn the basics of Web or Windows development using step-by-step tutorials and videos that will guide you through the tools, technologies and languages to create your first projects. They even have a Kids’ corner there!
Imagining the tenth dimension
Jan 12th
In string theory, physicists tell us that the subatomic particles that make up our universe are created within ten spatial dimensions (plus an eleventh dimension of “time”) by the vibrations of exquisitely small “superstrings”. The average person has barely gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: how can we possibly imagine the tenth?
The flash version of “Imagining the Tenth Dimension”, a book by Rob Bryanton – provides an interactive set of animations with narration and sound effects which explain the basic concepts from chapter one of the book. You can also check it out on Google Video.
Quite a fun ride!
A fun puzzle
Aug 15th
Found an interesting puzzle on the web today. Managed to solve it in about 15-20 minutes, with the help of google, wikipedia and personal knowledge. Pretty fun nonetheless!
View websites as graphs
Jun 29th
A friend of mine gave me a link to an interesting turnaround on how to “view” a website. First, the website structure is parsed using HTMLParser, then the tags are displayed in a tree view using Processing and Traer Physics, using the following color codes:
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
You can visit the page describing how it works and check out a few samples, or you can generate your own graph. The source code for the applet is also available.
Here’s the graph for tudy.ro:
Quite nice, I would say: lots of divs and links, a small table (the calendar) in the upper left side, a few scarce images here and there… You can clearly identifiy the main text on the page by all the paragraphs and the blockquotes. Awesome stuff!
