Posted in DFKI, Development on Jul 31st, 2007 2 Comments »
I created a simple Dōjō / SVG benchmark to test how many rectangles could be drawn and moved in a second, and if the numbers are high enough for real time graphics.
You can find the benchmark here
My private results so far (but please beware, the usual problems with microbenchmarks apply):
Opera 9.21 feels as [...]
Posted in Development on Jun 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
… am Arbeiten. Warum müssen Projektenden immer so *!§*”§/(”!§ !” sein ? Ich glaube langsam, der Begriff Deadline bezieht sich in Wirklichkeit auf die Entwickler, und nicht auf die Software.
Btw, ich hab grade den Müll von einem Ballisto, vier Twix, fünf Knoppers, und einer Achterpackung Orbit Winterfresh entsorgt. Kennt einer von Euch zufällig Nutty von [...]
Posted in Development on May 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
I spent some hours creating a binary version of the wxMac (wxWindows) framework. You can find the results here :
http://blog.xeoh.net/projects/wxmac
I’m not sure if it works. At least along with the application I intended it to use for it didn’t, because of bus errors in the OpenGL part. Maybe the other modules are okay, I [...]
Posted in Development, Verschiedenes on May 19th, 2007 4 Comments »
Mal wieder ein Reminder für mich, und den Rest der Welt. Sollte in einem PDF-Dokument der OCR-Dienst mit den Worten
Diese Seite enthält Text der gerendert werden kann
den Betrieb einstellen, kann man versuchen das Dokument als TIFF-Dateien zu exportieren, aus diesen wieder ein PDF zu erstellen, worin dann die OCR gehen sollte. Acrobat zickt [...]
Posted in Development on Apr 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Because this is the second time I ran into problems with these bad class version, here is a solution once and for all. Find your Eclipse application, show it’s package content, edit
Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini
and put
-vm
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/bin/java
into the first lines. Solved it for me.
Posted in Development on Feb 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
Javalobby recently posted an article discussing Bruce Eckel’s idea about Java on the browser side.
You can read about the problem on the sites above, so I just want to post a possible solution. My main points are :
0. Keep Applets for the “real serious stuff”.
1. Introduce JavaBE, a Java Browser Edition.
2. Every valid [...]
Posted in Development, Science on Jan 8th, 2007 4 Comments »
Maybe some of you know the pretty funny Wordpress Challenge Plugin which I also use to protect my blog.
A reader of mine, ma, brought me to the idea to figure out how difficult it would be to break the vanilla plugin the brute force way. As vanilla I consider the standard challenge a [...]