Easily testing some seemingly hard to test code
Working on the "find the middle point of a polyline" task, I hit a wall in terms of unit testing my code. This wasn't like most of my other tasks - I just couldn't properly visualize the GivenWhenThen of it. How am I supposed to accurately unit test this thing out then?
Problem solving exercise: find the middle/centroid of a polyline
Recently, I got a task to add some direction arrows on a set of polylines that were drawn on a map. After quickly testing some code, I found that the most esthetically pleasant option would be to place this arrow in the middle of the polyline.
Growing up in post-communist Romania - thoughts on learning English
“Where did you learn to speak English so well?” my boss asked me one afternoon, as we were searching for a bike part he just lost in front of our office building. “By watching TV”. He laughed, I laughed. “No really”, I continued though, “I used to watch cartoons for 4-6 hours every day when we first got cable and the cartoons were always in English”. Of course, I studied English in school. Twice a week, for 11 years, but the answer to the question of where I learned it “so well” will always be “on Cartoon Network”.
Simple Undo/Redo system in Javascript based on the Memento pattern
There comes a time in every developer's life when they have to implement a undo/redo functionality.
The ".ro" Gold Rush
In a gold rush, you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes
A tale of two markers
That should have pointed to each other. But didn't.
viorel {dot} me
Born and raised in Romania, I grew up wanting to be a journalist. I somehow ended up studying PR and Communication, which was great because it made me realize that what I _really_ wanted to do is write software.