20110830 Demoscene @ Salt Lake City

I was going through the directories in the BlasterSound BBS archive, finding out what hidden jewels are in there and lo and behold!, I found one of those: a demo by a group from Salt Lake City, Utah! The demoscene is generally considered to be a mostly European phenomenon, so manifestations in other continents are [...]

20110531 Rules are made to be broken, right?

On cache There’s an Android API which allows any application to access a reserved directory for temporary files, such as application and cache files. The developer manual has this to say on the cache topic: …you should always have a reasonable maximum, such as 1 MB, for the amount of space you consume with cache [...]

20101111 Marcan strikes back (re: Open Kinect / freenect)

I was happily in my happy world, when mrdoob mentioned that someone had hacked the Kinect and thus won the $3000 that were offered for the first person who did it. And he added: isn’t this the same guy that wrote the laser demo? Indeed, he’s the same 20 year genius! Whenever I see news [...]

20100614 Debunking Smarty myths

I have found yet another article condemning the use of Smarty because… [...] When you add a template language on top of this the template language has to be interpreted, converted to php and then interpreted as php and outputted. This doubles the amount of work that the cpu has to do to return the [...]

20100601 They are outsourcers

Victor Martins via ps linked to an article by Matt Legend Gemell: What have you tried? In the article, Matt performs an exhaustive analysis on the reasons for this recent phenomenon: asking directly for the solution instead of trying to solve the problem. He goes on for some paragraphs trying to convince readers and potential [...]