I don’t think I’ve ever had a summer as successful as this one in terms of vacations. I went to Newfoundland and back on my motorcycle, and I went on a 5-day canoe trip in Killarney. Now what could I possibly do to compete with that in the coming winter…
Continue reading How to spend your vacation properlyFor quite a few years I resisted the temptation of setting up a wireless network at home. Story after story suggested that WiFi is a crappy, unstable, and awfully insecure set of technologies. Finally though things seemed to have settled down, and with WPA2 the wardriving stories ended. So a couple of years ago I …
Continue reading Wireless security.. rightI was planning to go on a long trip on my bike, and I needed to bring luggage. The trip was long enough and I needed enough stuff that putting it all in a backpack wasn’t doable. I shopped around for such a rack but didn’t find anything at a price I was willing to …
Continue reading DIY motorcycle rackI’ve been working on this project part time for a while now, and finally it started bothering me that I couldn’t google the requirements document. That is so because I haven’t publicised it yet, so here you go: The first step has been to create a requirements document, which I’ve done, on a wiki like …
Continue reading Fractions driving game in HTML5 instead of FlashSome of the photos from my first jump, from the 28th of April 2012. Amazing experience!
Continue reading Because life is shortNew post added to Linux Stuff: Brother HL-2270DW on Slackware.
Continue reading Brother HL-2270DW on SlackwareAs part of an exercise in a course I was taking I was required (or at least strongly encouraged) to create a Twitter account and learn to use it. I figured why not, might as well see what it’s about, maybe there’s something I’m missing. After a few days I decided I wasn’t missing anything …
Continue reading How not to get a new userI 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 …
Continue reading My awesome students: Winter 2012 HTML5 DSASVG 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 …
Continue reading Processing.js SVG support testerA 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 …
Continue reading Scalable HTML Canvas / Processing.js sketch