// home

Fresh out of the oven:

The blog of Kristóf Kovács: Latest post

So you want to build a better search engine

Lots of hungarian (and I presume other countries has the same situation) startups are trying to build search engines nowadays. That's what they believe in, and who am I to doubt them.

Just musings...

  • This syntax-highlighting plugin does such a beautiful work, I'm seriously tempted to blog more program code. :) #
  • My brief take on the "help, the electronic media is killing us!" screaming: If you are a "breaking news"-based (print or electronic) outlet, Twitter & co will kill you. It was nice knowing you. If you are bringing news analysis or situational analysis to the table, stop trying to charge for your archives! Charge for fresh content, show older for free. If you write content that has value for a long time (i.e. NOT based on the news), THEN charge for you archive. It's not that hard. #
  • To make MacVim zoom in both directions, open a Terminal window, and enter: defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMZoomBoth 1 #
  • I finally put my "kkrc" script and the accompanying .rc files (.vimrc, .screenrc, .zshrc) on github, under the BSD license. Check it out at kkrc.git! Feel free to fork it if you don’t like my defaults, and update the .rc files with your ones. #
  • Hey, I worked for this guy who is in the Economist's "face value" column! Not for him personally, of course, but I was on the team that developed Meinl Bank's web-trading system. #

Hello, my name is Kristof. I'm a specialist.

Kristof KovacsI love one thing: solving interesting problems. This made me interested in computers more than 25 years ago, and later, in starting my own businesses. I have a diverse background in technology, having worked in software development and project leading roles for Fortune 500 and other companies.

If you are in a difficult, unusual or (nearly) impossible situation with programming, software architecture, security or project management, I can help you. Just ask!

“We help where others cannot” (Swiss Luftwaffe’s motto)

Previously, on this blog:

Drop-in XCache emulation with memcached
February 18, 2010
By Kristóf
Exploiting web development worst practices: file upload
February 1, 2010
By Kristóf
Exploiting web development worst practices: file inclusion
January 25, 2010
By Kristóf
Exploiting web development worst practices: SQL injection
January 18, 2010
By Kristóf
Merry Christmas to all readers!
December 24, 2009
By Kristóf
Businessmen’s guide to open-source licenses
December 5, 2009
By Kristóf
Cloud power!
November 20, 2009
By Kristóf

Keep in touch!