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Ruby on Rails : First look

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on December 30, 2005December 31, 2005

Yes, the hype got me! I don’t know if you noticed it, but lately everyone seems to be talking about Ruby on Rails. No matter what web stone you peek up, you find Ruby-on-Rails under it. Until now the only thing I knew about Ruby was that it is a language closely related to Python.

ELKS : Baby Linux refusing to grow up

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 1, 2005October 1, 2005

Recently there was a spike in the ELKS mailing list. For those that don’t know what ELKS is, let me tell you that is is basically Linux-86; the port of Linux for the 8086 and 80286 processors. An email with subject “HELP WANTED” caused a thread of responses. The mail came from Miguel Bolanos with […]

Open Source Programming

C++ STL and the Lack of Update in Heap Implementation

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 7, 2005December 31, 2005

A friend asked me some time ago if the implementation of the heap data structure in the STL has update functions. He couldn’t find any documentation about an update_heap() function. He was as sure as I was (some time ago) that

Open Source Sylphis

Blender, beast under 5MB

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 24, 2005August 24, 2005

I’ve been watching closely Blender since it became open source. It was when I was looking for a modeler to be used with Sylphis3D. I must say it is a modeler that catches the eye. You see very impressive renderings, stunning videos and when you try to download the program you realize that we are […]

Open Source Programming

Quake III Engine Source Released

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 20, 2005August 20, 2005

id did it! The source to the famous Quake III engine is out. The ftp site at id software is full of downloaders… get it while its hot!

Open Source Programming

Quake III source to be released under the GPL

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 14, 2005August 14, 2005

John Carmack noted at his QuakeCon speech that the source code of Quake III will be released next week! Gamespy coverage Even though Quake III is old technology (it is 5 years old) this is big news. A lot of hobby programmers will take it and push it to the limits, which is always fun […]

Master Thesis Open Source

An other contribution to OpenSource

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 22, 2005October 14, 2005

Ok… after a lot of hard work, I managed to implement RQ decomposition in SciPy. It was a rather bad experience. I hate Fortran and I had to mess with it. Patch is send to the scipy-dev mailing list and I’m ready to continue my work. But wait… it is Friday!!! I’m off!!!