Entries from December 2005

Ruby on Rails : First look

Comments   4   Date Arrow  December 30, 2005 at 8:54pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Yes, the hype got me! I don’t know if you noticed it, but lately everyone seems to be talking about Ruby on Rails. No matter what web stone you peek up, you find Ruby-on-Rails under it. Until now the only thing I knew about Ruby was that it is a language closely related to Python. It follows some […]

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3D reconstruction from photographs

Comments   5   Date Arrow  December 28, 2005 at 3:26pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

I just realised that all this time I talk about my thesis, while I never took the time to describe what I am doing!

So in my masters thesis I try to do three-dimensional reconstruction. Actually I was trying, because now it works. The goal is to create 3D models of scenes from photographs. The idea was to […]

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Shopping for man and woman

Comments   0   Date Arrow  December 27, 2005 at 12:53am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

First of all… Merry Christmas to you all. I know it is a bit late but better now than never. I was unable to post the last days, since I was on vacation.

I was shopping with a friend of mine on Christmas eve and while we where on the men’s department of a clothing store, […]

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I hate compiler/grammar/language theory

Comments   0   Date Arrow  December 13, 2005 at 4:28pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Lately I was forced to study some papers on compiler theory. You know: context-free, context-sensitive, boolean grammars etc. God! I forgot how much I despise all that. Even if I’m doing parsers from the first time I started programming, I can’t stand all the formalism of grammar theory. Creating compilers is actually something that I enjoy. I have to […]

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