Gettin' back

It's been a while since I've written at least weekly on this, but I am getting back.

Mainly because I have to write more on my Romanian blog.
Anyway, I'm getting back on writing on this blog, so there will be 3 main categories with information I like to share:

Web Development
General information, mostly PHP, web frameworks like CakePHP and Zend Framework, issues I face, tutorials  

eCommerce
Technical articles about platforms like osCommerce,  Magento, Prestashop.

ERP Consultancy
Lately I've been involved in some projects regarding the process of choosing and ERP, implementing an ERP system, business analysis and so on. So I will share this with you.

I will also post personal stuff, so please bear me.
Any feedback is welcome.

Horia Negulescu - senior country manager at Epicor Software Romania gives up his position for managing events

I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Negulescu at a meeting. As almost always he came there directly from the airport and he seemed to have experience in doing such things: airport - business meeting - other meetings at his office / work - back on the plain and so on...

This kind of life really affects your family life. You are almost never around....

So after 11 years with Epicor he declared for Business Standard:

Fiecare are nevoie, din timp in timp, de o schimbare. Eu am simtit aceasta nevoie dupa 11 ani. Am mai multe planuri, dar toate la timpul lor. Deocamdata, vreau sa aloc un Pic mai mult timp familiei si celor doi copii ai mei

and the translation (hopefully accurate):

Every man needs from the to time a change. I felt this need after 11 years. I have many plans, but every things has its time. For now, I want to dedicate more time for my family and my two children...

I wish all the best for his new path... His place was taken by.... Diana Lungulescu (ex: sales and marketing manager) ... This came as a suprize for me... Congratulations for her new position at Epicor! Another thing I found interesting in the article was the fact that the main players in Romanian Business Software market are: SAP, Oracle, Siveco and Wizrom... I understand SAP, Oracle has some large clients, but Siveco? (maybe the contracts with the government got this position for them) and Wizrom ?!?! I don't quite understand this...

Convergence 2007 Day 1

Monday, we arrived about noon in Copenhagen. Wanted to take the train/metro to the hotel, but the system was down... We searched for a taxi. A verry interesting thing is that most taxi are Mercedes (E-Klasse, C), later we saw a Crysler 300C and a VW Passat. The charge is between 10 and 15 kr (1 eur is 7.3/7.4 kr). We paid 12.5 kr per km. Was about 30 euros to get to the hotel. The conference is held at Bella Center, which is quite close to the airport. The first day is Partners Day, so I had no access. We got to the hotel; one room for non-smoking wasn't ready yet, so got only one room and we said we will come back later to get the other one when is ready. After more than a half day on the road, went to get someting to eat. A nice restaurant close to hotel (in Vesterport) was the chosen place. Had some chineese soup (chicken, mushroom, sweat and spicy) and I had some salmon steak with patatoes. Really good, but the lunch got to be quite expensive (about 25 euro). And of course drunk Tuborg. Went back to the hotel, got the other room and went for a walk in Copenhagen... First we went by metro to Bella Center. Surprizes in Copenhagen: - when you take the metro, you get the tickets, but you are not forced to use them; you can get in without any restrictions; from time to time there are some check-ins; - the front of the metro has no "driver", it's glass and you can have quite a view staying in the front; - lots of people on bicycle; youngs, middle age, older people, all on bicycles; - there is no traffic, verry few cars (found out later that the cars are very expensive: 2-4 times more than in other countries - VW Touareg is about 1.5 mil kr ~ 200.000 euro); - everyone speaks English; better or worse, no matter the age everybody understands and speaks English; It's an amazing city. Anyway, got to Bella Center, registered, got a nifty bag and marketing materials, a pen from a partner and a notebook (paper notebook :D). Walked in Copenhagen, almost got to the Little Mermaid, but got there when the area was closing, so we were turned around; got home around 21, and went to sleep. Pictures taken will be posted later...