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Orientation Film One : The AutoSleep App

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 19, 2011

Ok, you must see this! My dearest of friends, Thanasis Lightbridge, made this awesome cult retro film for AutoSleep. It’s all there… secret laboratories, crazy vocals of rebelion, giant-reptiles-attacking-earth-style announcements, retro cinematography, wicked pyjamas, epic soundtrack, peaceful high pitch snoring … and many more! 😀 😀 😀

iphone Software

AutoSleep Music Timer hits the AppStore

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on December 22, 2010February 20, 2011

Hello! I just released a new application on the AppStore and wanted to share the joy! 😀 The application is called: “AutoSleep Music Timer” and its purpose is to help all those people (like me) that need music to fall asleep. So what it basically does is: turn the music off automatically when you fall asleep! […]

Game Development iphone Programming Software

Optimizing script language performance with custom memory allocators

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on November 29, 2010November 29, 2010

The last weekend I did some exploration on the script language execution performance. Specifically on the memory allocation side of things, and I would like to share my findings. Script languages and memory usage As you probably know script languages (most of them at least, like Python, Lua, etc) have the tendency to make a huge […]

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. […]

Programming Software

Double Check Your EXCEL

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 27, 2007September 27, 2007

Do you trust Microsoft Excel to do your financial plans? Do you count on it for business matters? Do you even use it as a calculator? Think again… since Excel can’t even multiply correctly!! I wonder how they accomplished such a thing! What kind of COM, CORBA and VB should you be calling for a […]

Open Source Software Sylphis

24 hours and 3GB later…

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 12, 2007

Its been almost 24 hours since the release of Sylphis3D and the sourceforge shows that 3GBytes were downloaded already about 10 e-mails expressing unbounded appreciation and some very nice comments. People are already jumping in to help with the website, doing changes and cleaning up the mess! I would like to thank every one of […]

Game Development Open Source OpenGL Programming Software

The wait is over… Sylphis3D is open source!

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 11, 2007

I just release the source to Sylphis3D! Check out the story at the Developer Network. The wait is over! Sylphis3D is officially released under the GNU GPL ver.2 (with the classpath exception for those that need closed source solutions). The engine weights at around 45000 lines of source code written in C++ and Python. The […]

Game Development Open Source Programming Software Sylphis

Tomorrow the Release

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 10, 2007

The time has come… tomorrow is the release day of Sylphis3D as an open source project. I’m very excited for this new begining! This is going to be my biggest contribution to the open source community until now. The source that is going to be released counts ~45000 lines of code in C++ and Python […]

Game Development Open Source Software Sylphis

Opensource License

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 5, 2007April 5, 2007

The last days I’m spending most of my time considering open source licenses and what would be the appropriate license for Sylphis3D. I must say that it is a very brain-melting procedure. I can see now why I could never became a lawyer! I initially started considering two licenses, the GPL and the BSD. These […]

Game Development Open Source OpenGL Programming Software Sylphis

Sylphis3D goes open source : BSD or GPL ?

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 28, 2007March 28, 2007

I think this is good news on the doorstep today! Yeap! After long thoughts I came to the decision to finally open the source code of Sylphis3D. This is going to be a big step for the development of the game engine and