About me

October 27, 2005 | Filed by Marius under: about
My name is Marius Alin Popescu.

I am a Romanian programmer, working in France (since 2001), mostly in Delphi. I thought a lot before beginning to post in … English, but hey! this is the new lingua franca so I will use it for most of my posts. However I am interested too in Romanian, French and European events and politics. I am married, having two daughters, I like music etc.
So I guess I might be blogging sometimes about those too.
I am blogging in Romanian at escu.wordpress.com (generic personal blog) and dece.blogsome.com (kids say).

I think I should make clear the purpose of this writings, but this is not very clear to me either :).

After this (almost an) year of blogging it seems that I blog mostly about web tech stuff, thinking about a new web i.e. using the current one better. For now let’s just say I am looking to find new meanings (or understand the existing ones) of the web development.
Working in Delphi for all this time (almost 10 years now) got me a lot of experience in the (database) desktop software. For the last 3-4 years, however, I tried to focus on the web side of applications development. Coming from a mostly desktop oriented programming, I had/have an interesting though sometimes painfull experience on my web development conversion, which is not completed yet and doesn’t seem to become completed any time soon.

Of course, sometimes I’l just go rant about something, sometimes I’ll write more developed thoughts, ater all this is just a blog ;)

Oh, and I am currently working at PC PAL, near Paris (France) as a Delphi software developer (healtchcare desktop and web applications).

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Blog split in two

October 12, 2005 | Filed by Marius under: general

I decided to make some changes in my blog. I am splitting it in two distinct blogs:
The present one (http://mapopescu.blogsome.com) will remain in English, dedicated to web development, with a new tagline: “The web desktop”.
The posts in Romanian have moved to http://dece.blogsome.com, where I will continue to post stuff in romanian, related to kids mostly.


[romanian]
Am decis sa despart blogul acesta in doua: unul care va ramine in engleza, despre tehnologii web etc (http.mapopescu.blogsome.com) si altul ce va fi scris in româna, dedicat in mare parte copiilor (http://dece.blogsome.com).

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Websnap and AJAX

October 10, 2005 | Filed by Marius under: web dev, ajax, delphi

So, after some bitter comments about Delphi’s Internet technologies, I’m back to something more … let’s say happy.

I must say that from the 2-3 sites where I tried to use AJAX with Websnap the experience was rather good. They were sites already in production, done with Websnap’s classic components, plus internal stuff.

The need was for me to explore how this AJAX-thing can be used and for the clients to gain some speed or responsiveness where possible.

In the AJAX-driven world, on the client-side there are some new challenges. Like the AJAX communication, the UI dynamics etc., stuff not needed or mostly covered by the designer till now. From the Rails worls I used prototype , a very simple to use and painless to integrate javascript library. It is conceived to integrate a framework, so go get it :)

For the interface dynamics I used the much praised yellow fade technique, even if I used something more appropriate for the sites’ color scheme, plus a lot of the code from the prototype library. The rest was almost all written from scratch.

I think this is th way to go for starters, you must find an area that has to be improved and use AJAX. Or rather found areas that could be rewritten using AJAX. Either way, beware of the rocks. There are some.

Anyway, it was a rather pleasant experience. I think Websnap could be used as a base for a AJAX-driven web framework. I see very easy some of Marco Cantù’s ideas fit very well - like the XMLAdapter or his XML documents framework he recently talked about. Also, the ClientDatasets ar every fit, as they can render as XML very easily.

My ideas are not very clear and I’m afraid Delphi’s recent years of hickups (let’s just stay at this calm, friendly word) will force us to seeother lands, more fertile, more friendly … I begun to study Rails this summer and it felt so good. I saw the Castle project rising in the ASP.NET world too, and all of these ar every good ideas.

I don’t know if there are some Delphi users that passionate to start an open-source web framework, but I surely love to see one.

*Update*: _Mon Dieu_, “Marco Cantù”:http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/web20.html just hit it in the head again :)

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