Author: Simo
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Indeterminate progress is not progress
The progress paradigm Before, you could open your computer, do your stuff, close it and enjoy life. Remember when loading a program, like a word processor, took a minute or more? Today’s applications and websites typically employ a model where there’s a backend process that either runs locally on the same machine or on a server somewhere.…
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0xdec4c8
Putting together some simple 3d for fun once again. Made a little cube, put the vertices and indices together, made a couple of array buffers and rendered a cube. Now usually to make a cube, you’ll need at least 8 vertices and index lists for the triangles or quads for the six sides. A triangle…
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Hungarian Notation
Years ago, I got a task to add features to the source code of an existing application. It originated in a company that was seemingly obsessed with win32-style programming and Hungarian notation. After a while, the m_lpsz, g_u32 and s_aul prefixes started to make sense, and almost immediately after that, they stopped making sense. Here’s what…
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Poor man’s photo backup, part I
A photo library, around 100 000 photos, not really professional but nice-to-have photos. Some of them are blurry, unfocused, or just plain horrible photographs. No time to browse through everything and only keep the really good ones. Aging hard drives and you badly need a backup, but 300 GB is just too expensive to store in…
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Create ringtones from YouTube
Most of the methods online for creating ringtones from YouTube seem to involve shady websites with ads and registering accounts, if they even happen to work. So here’s a simple workflow for choosing what you want and creating a ringtone in a matter of minutes. All of this assumes you have a Mac, if you…
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Streaming basics
As a quick crash course on video and audio streaming, here’s some nice facts and articles. The tool of the trade is RTSP, like it or not. There are methods of streaming through HTTP, but to make something that supports multiple streams or any sort of negotiation, it’ll always come back to RTSP. RFC 2326 – Real…
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Unity version of MonoDevelop on OSX won’t run
…that is, if you are not running your system as admin. MonoDevelop assumes that everyone who uses OSX use it as admin. The way to fix this is to give you rights to the folder it wants to install its Mono library stuff into: /Applications/Unity/MonoDevelop.app/Contents/Frameworks/Mono.framework Give your user write permissions to that folder (and anything…
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Some more music
Here’s one old track remastered and another new piece: Cabo Blanco (2012 remaster): Cabo Blanco (2012 remaster) Detective Story: Detective Story