My name is Marius Bancila. I am a software developer living and working in Timisoara, Romania. This page tells you a litle about me.
I could say I entered the world of computers at the age of 12 when my parents brought me my first personal computer: it was a Romanian model called CIP 03, with 64 KB RAM and a Basic-based language stored in ROM. Not a state of the art computer, but enough to capture my attention and change my future. When I was little I dreamed to become a football player; later on I wanted to become a doctor, but during high school I decided that I want to go technical and entered the University Politehnica of Timisoara. By that time my CIP 03 was covered in dust and I was playing Warcraft 2 on my Pentium I.
I am currently employed at Visma Software, a Norwegian based company developing ERP solutions for the Nordic market. Before this I worked for Star Automation, a Canadian company building HVAC solutions and Siemens VDO.
I don’t recount every single programming or scripting language that I used to code in, but I can enumerate C, C++, Java, JavaScript, LISP, Prolog, Pascal, C#, VB.NET, F#, MC++, C++/CLI, HTML, php, CSS. Of them all, C++ was always my favorite, but C# is catching momentum, and I believe that it’s more productive than C++ (due to the right libraries build on the .NET framework, which we can easily use).
I am an active member of several online developer communities. codeguru.com is the one that receives my most attention, and where I act as a moderator of the forums and reviewer, known as ‘cilu’. You can find many articles of mine published on the site. More recent communities that I actively joined are MSDN forums, where I’m known under my real name, and ronua.ro where I’m one of the people handling the C++ forums and I’m also posting under the nickname ‘cilu’. In April 2006 (and then again in 2007) I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (shortly MVP) award in the Visual C++ category for my on-line activities making me one of the 15 Romanian MVPs.
In 2007 together with two friends and fellow MVPs for VC++ I have found CODEXPERT, a romanian community for C++ programmers. Our website (www.codexpert.ro) offers the community technical articles (and of course the possibility for everyone to publish articles there), a forum with many members that are experts in the field, and a wiki where members can contribute with content useful to the community. You don’t have to be Romanian to join us, but all resources are in Romanian. Nor you have to be C++ oriented.
However, computers are not my only interest; other areas include physics, astronomy, cosmology, history of old civilization and reading. My favorite books include Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Maitreyi by Mircea Eliade, Quo Vadis by Henrik Sienkiewicz and Tess d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. I enjoy listening especially pop-rock music and I’m a fan of Dinamo Bucharest and Manchester United.
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