Solving tech problems

Working hard is not guarantee for prosperity

It is very important where we invest our life energy every day and to measure that every week (what we have done and what we have gained). Working hard on unimportant things in completely irrelevant when we talk about the prosperity because there is no added value. Spending time on quarrelling, worrying is complete waste of time, so don’t do this. The most important thing is to set the goals and then work hard on the steps that can bring you more closer to achieving these goals – this is…read more

Copy-Paste Stopped Working on Remote Desktop Connection

This happened few times and is annoying when you can not Copy-Paste among Remote Server and your Local Machine How to fix when clipboard stops working at RDP? Open RDP to your server and login Open Task Manager (right click Taskbar and select Task Manager) Go to the Processes Tab Find rdpclip.exe Click End Process Go to the Application Tab Click New Process Type rdpclip Click Ok After that, Copy and Paste should work normally again. How do you fix this permanently? There is no cure for permanent fix but…read more

Product oriented companies and why marketing matters

I was involved in one Cloud oriented startup that earns money by selling monthly and yearly subscriptions. Whole team with CEO included were devoted to create technically superior product for their current and new customers but none of them liked to work on promoting benefits of their product, so marketing tasks were not on the priority list. They are all aware that this is the bad thing but none of them was willing to do marketing tasks, so, apparently they needed to hire one good marketeer. Product grew organically but…read more

Is Apple iOS7 copying Windows Phone Metro Design?

Looks like, on the first view, that Apple, in the newest iOS7 update, made the icons simpler, more 2D, abandoned skeuomorphism and they look now more like colourful Windows Phone Metro icons. It is a risky move and regarding that iPhone is their main business (by revenue) so Tim Cook will maybe copy Gil Amelio saying: “Apple is like a ship with holes in the bottom leaking water. My job is to get that ship pointed in the right direction.”) It is really amazing how one man can make such…read more

MongoDB vs MS SQL Server Comparison

We are using both databases for our projects and we can finalize some thoughts on both of them… Mongo Facts Free – official website is here and you can download it here Because it is using NoSQL concept it is really extremely fast when it comes to the inserts into database. It is almost fast as writing directly into the disk. It is at least 10 times faster when doing inserts. Because is is using NoSQL there is no scheme, you just store your object into database (JSON serialization is…read more

Levi’s (Levi Strauss) brand is missing the big opportunity

Levi’s is a well known brand, strong everywhere, also in the Eastern Europe (but they are not aware of this at all). I remember when I was a kid and went once during the Winter vacation in former Czechoslovakia (todays Slovakia) at Visoky Tatry mountains and one girl I met pinched my leg (and Levi’s trousers I wore) and she was completely out of herself touching for the first time the trousers she wanted so much. At that time Czechoslovakia was behind the iron curtan of SSSR (Soviet Union and…read more

Windows 8 Annoyance

There were a lot of talks regarding the WIndows 8 first screen optimized for touch devices and yes, I don’t like it at all also. Just trying to skip it as soon as possible and come to the desktop. Touch devices with Windows 8… Anybody buying this? Satisfied? Personally it would be useful to have Surface PRO – thin as iPad with cover as a keyboard as a travelling machine from which you can do interesting work or system administration when you are out of the office. I don’t like…read more

Do not let others to ruin your dreams

I talked with my friend and he told me that he is desperate because he feels that he can achieve much more but in organization where he is working all his nice idea are rejected. So, there are two options: to let it go and continue living like that in this organization or to change something. The main problem is that he really believes that from his ideas organization can benefit but nearest co-workers are telling him that this will be hard to achieve, and that they don’t see any…read more

Relocating (changing the country) and finding your dream job

I got inspired to write this post because my good friend is thinking to leave the country and town in which he was born and where he lived decent amount of time. He didn’t contacted me directly but our mutual friend asked me for the advice to help him with information, experience so he can do this without much stress. I was in similar situation about 10 years ago when I left the Novi Sad (Serbia). Your will is crucial The most important thing is your decision and your will…read more

Problem with SEPA payments and standard

Banking and Finance

SEPA means Single European Payments Area and includes countries in the European Union and some other countries where payments in EUR are enabled. Within the region, SEPA payments basically work as a domestic transactions, as they are carried out in the single currency (€). Talking from the view of programmers that will need to implement this standard… The idea of standardization was good and it should make life easier but in implementation they failed. While searching for XML standardization of SEPA payments I found too many different sources, and no…read more