Charilaos Kalogirou

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Symfony, Ruby on Rails and Django : The unsual review (Part 1)

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on November 1, 2008

I spent the last week trying out web frameworks. I thought it was time to move on from my own hacked PHP scripts to something more elaborate. The first framework I was really eager to checkout was ofcourse the under every stone Ruby on Rails! The main reason was all the talks about it, along […]

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The Google When it All Started

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 26, 2008October 17, 2010

I was looking for older versions of my home page in the web archive when it occurred to me that I can’t remember how the Google search page looked when the project started! So I hit www.google.com and traveled back to 1998! I had forgot how the web looked back in 1998… No CSS, no […]

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Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 13, 2008

It seems that hackers started to attack the everywhere-in-the-news-collider! According to this article they successfully managed to crack the cmsmon.cern.ch web site! The headline of the site sponsored : “GST: Greek Security Team”, which advertises

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Picasa with Facial Recognition

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 2, 2008

According to this post at CNET Google has implemented facial recognition in to the latest version of their photo management software Picasa! Finally! I always loved to be able to search photos by people, but tagging all of your photos can bring you close to madness! p.s. Only wait until they use this technology on […]

Music Personal

Videoclip for Goddess released

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 1, 2008

I am so excited to inform you that the video clip I was talking about earlier was released! As I said the video clip was created to accommodate the release of the song “Goddess” as a single. This single is the first taste from the upcoming album “The Universe Expands” from Dol Theeta. The whole […]

Personal

Trying out Twitter

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 1, 2008August 1, 2008

Hola, my dear friends! I’m going to give Twitter a try after all… care to follow?

Programming

Python Easter Egg

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 19, 2008

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 😀 😀 😀

Open Source Personal

Hollywood Directors Beware!

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 24, 2008March 24, 2008

With great pleasure I inform you that my first video clip is complete! No I am not singing.. I just created the video for the upcoming single from Dol Theeta – the second brain child of Thanasis Lightbridge. Part of the three band project of his, of which we only experienced Dol Ammad until now. […]

Game Development Programming

Ray Tracing into a Sparse Voxel Octree

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 22, 2008

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 […]

Game Development Hardware Programming Uncategorized

NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 6, 2008February 6, 2008

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 extra […]