Entries Tagged as 'Programming'

Python Easter Egg

Comments   1   Date Arrow  April 19, 2008 at 1:14am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Since Easter is coming, here is an easter egg for you :

If you type from __future__ import braces in Python..

You get :

SyntaxError: not a chance

:D

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Ray Tracing into a Sparse Voxel Octree

Comments   4   Date Arrow  March 22, 2008 at 3:00am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

And just when you thought you were through with tracing things all over the place… John Carmack strikes back with a mortal blow with something about ray tracing into a sparse voxel octree!!

The article doesn’t really say much (nothing actually) about the algorithm, and this is where the fun/fuss starts! I can’t wait to see […]

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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies

Comments   0   Date Arrow  February 6, 2008 at 1:05am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

According to this press release, nVidia will acquire Ageia Technologies. Yeap! The well known physics software and hardware vendor. In my mind this means that the future nVidia based accelerators will support physics acceleration, too. It will basically mean the death of the PhysX processor, since the GPU can do that easily with no […]

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Software Engineering Proverbs

Comments   1   Date Arrow  October 6, 2007 at 12:50am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Must read..

One I really liked :

Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: QA testers don’t change anything. They just report that it’s dark.

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My Βabbler Coldfusion

Comments   2   Date Arrow  September 28, 2007 at 8:31am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

If you where a compiler and you would like to express yourself about an index that was mistakenly out of bounds what would you say?

I would say something like this : - “Line 342 : Index out of bounds”

Read on to find out what Coldfusion would say!!!

In function ListGetAt(list, index [, delimiters]), the value […]

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Double Check Your EXCEL

Comments   1   Date Arrow  September 27, 2007 at 10:30am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Do you trust Microsoft Excel to do your financial plans? Do you count on it for business matters? Do you even use it as a calculator?

Think again… since Excel can’t even multiply correctly!!

I wonder how they accomplished such a thing! What kind of COM, CORBA and VB should you be calling for a multiplication to […]

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Getting Started Again… True Megatexture

Comments   2   Date Arrow  August 28, 2007 at 1:45pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Greetings everybody!

It been a long time since this blog was updated, I know! Well I was kind of busy lately. Looking for a job, finding a job, then doing the job and finally trying to get some free time for summer vacation and free time projects. You know that getting a new job always makes […]

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farbrausch

Comments   2   Date Arrow  April 22, 2007 at 3:33pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Just watch this :

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30244

Anything said is wasted….

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The wait is over… Sylphis3D is open source!

Comments   11   Date Arrow  April 11, 2007 at 5:29pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

I just release the source to Sylphis3D! Check out the story at the Developer Network.

The wait is over! Sylphis3D is officially released under the GNU GPL ver.2 (with the classpath exception for those that need closed source solutions). The engine weights at around 45000 lines of source code written in C++ and Python.

The source code […]

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Tomorrow the Release

Comments   2   Date Arrow  April 10, 2007 at 10:58pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

The time has come… tomorrow is the release day of Sylphis3D as an open source project. I’m very excited for this new begining! This is going to be my biggest contribution to the open source community until now.

The source that is going to be released counts ~45000 lines of code in C++ and Python counted […]

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