I had a diploma and degree version of a multimedia course in the summer, where half the course was about HTML5 technologies. The major assignment was for students to implement a functional animation of a data structure and/or algorithm. There were a few of them to choose from. It took me a while but finally …

SVG has been a nightmare over the last decade. It used to be that every implementation is different, no one software created files compatible with any other software. These days the situation is a lot better, but I’m still suspicious of SVG. But I’m thinking of using it for a Processing.js project, so how do …

A bit of background: we are trying to port a game written in Adobe Flash to HTML5 using Processing.js. Flash An SWF (Flash) file is placed inside a page using HTML <object>/<embed> tags. The size of the SWF as displayed on the user’s computer is dicated by the width/height attribute of the <embed> tag and …

Wow, Linus himself used ISO Master and mentioned he liked it in a blog post (or whatever that Google+ thing is), I am so flattered! I would post a thank you response there, but I don’t feel like signing up for an account (yes, I am very happy living without most google services).

Grumble grumble, me back to NFS from SSHFS (previous post). Turns out that: root has no permissions to do anything on the SSH mount, which sort of makes sense but I wonder if it’s security through obscurity. Regardless – I need root to be able to do stuff in there like “make install”. For some …

For years I knew about the security issues related to NFS, but there wasn’t really a solution to that and I didn’t have a multiuser environment to worry about so I lived with it. More recently though I’ve experimented with sshfs and found it to work really well. So I figured why not try to …