Peter's Blog

Excel isn’t maybe great, but it’s useful for many things.

Being engineer/programmer is generally a blessing, as most of the time one does what one likes (loves) most.

Periodically I see following tweet where author of Sep praises it for being the fastest .NET CSV parser.

From edition to edition I’m less ashamed to show my code, even if I’ve failed to solve a challenge.

If only people would use this phrase more often instead of “it’s impossible”.

I have a personal git server for several years now, but I’ve used GitHub for “brag” code.

My first computer was Atari 65 XE.

JSON files shouldn’t contain a lot of data, but sometimes they do.

As per memoQ’s help page this is what causes your Translation Memory to store duplicated translations: Translation memory may have duplicate entries after the import: This happens if the translation memory allows multiple translation for each source segme…

Another year and another adventure.

Somebody has shared this image with me as supposedly funny.

Recently we’ve had some huge Translation Memory to cleanup.

When I want to contribute to some repository on GitHub I always check Issues section first.

After Advent of Code has ended I’ve started looking for another challenge and found weirdtext.

As I’m lone, self-taught “programmer” I miss challenges and cooperation in my life.

Some time ago I’ve tried my skills in coding golf competition, and had a second place, at least for a while.

I keep saying that you never know when some knowledge would be useful.

I’m working with memoQ (CAT tool) for more than four years now.

We have this publicist in Poland, Daniel Passent, who’s one of the greatest to me.

When you’ve created some solution which is essential to the company you work for, it’s tempting to make it as proprietary and as little documented as possible for obvious reason of job security.

Recently I’ve revived my subscription to Wired.

Some time ago I’ve created a tool which was testing our Translation Memories (TMs).

Agile is the hype these days and there’s probably no single startup which isn’t using this approach right now.

I’m interested in computers since I’ve learnt that they exist.

BOM is a Unicode character, U+FEFF byte order mark (BOM).

This year alone I’ve written more than thousand lines of code for various libraries.

I’m very interested in computer security.

Word document is still popular format in localization industry.

I’ve had a problem where I’ve needed to clean some stuff from files and then upload them to the server.

memoQ is great product, I’m saying it a lot.

Overselling happens when you have a server which can handle 10 users, but you’re selling it to 15, because you assume they’ll not utilize all resources assigned to them.

I’m currently using JekyllRB for my blog which maybe isn’t bad, but I don’t like it much just because I don’t like Ruby.

That’s the title of great essay written by Neal Stephenson, so I’m lending it for my post.

I work a lot with memoQ Server, great translation tool.

Working in localization industry involves a lot of searches in the TM (Translation Memory), or TMs even.

I’m a big fan of learning.

Recently I was posed with the task of backing up Translation Memories (TMs) from memoQ server into TMX format.

I know that guys who say that book was better than the movie are annoying, but today I’ll be such guy.

From time to time on various groups/forums which I follow appears the post like “Learn how to convert format x to y”.

I’ve bought OnePlus One over a year ago.

I’ve had enough of waiting for CyanogenMod 12 to arrive for my OnePlus One, so I’ve installed OxygenOS instead.

Recently I’ve finished Python course on codecademy and I’m hooked.

I was using Evernote few years back and then switched to OneNote.

If you’re using VPN which is based on OpenVPN, or anything other than Microsoft’s native VPN client where you have this magical “Use default gateway on remote network” option.

I’ve seen the first movie and it was great.

It was Sunday afternoon, I’ve had my son on my lap watching excavators on his part of the screen (and people ask me why I need big monitor).

There are few actors and directors about whom I’m able to say, “Well, this guy (sorry, no girls here) has never released a film which was bad, I’m watching new one without any review, it must be good”.

I prefer not to know much about the book before I read it.

Once Upon a Timethere was a man and his wife.

I’ve switched to Android 4.2 recently and noticed one quite annoying problem.