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Adobe weaves some Alchemy
I've mentioned them in the past because they're not just into Flaah but C/C++ as well. As a bit of an experiment through Adobe Labs are
providing Alchemy, a technology...
Does a Neural Network Weigh Up?
Many moons ago when I was writing commercial wargames, AI for the computer player was always a difficult thing to do. Mine were coded solutions, eg the AI had to...
Setting up Subversion Server on Windows
At my previous job, we switched to using subversion (hosted on Linux) from an existing proprietary, old fashioned and quite clunky version control system. I remember the techy guy there...
Reading PDF Files in C++
There are a number of utiities with source code for writing PDF files (including Max OS X where it is the native Metafile format) but not so many for reading....
Peeking Under the Hood; NIB Files Exposed
I continue to work on my iPhone application and out of curiosity today copied the .NIB file for it over to my Windows box. I'm still feeling my round the...
Programming Challenge 17 Properly Marked
Congratulations to Aliaksei Sanko of Belarus who came first with his C++ entry that took 0.0654754 seconds, beating Joshua Warner of the USA by under 4 thousands of a second....
The (Not) Joys Of Marking
I had hoped to have Challenge 17 marked tonight but a plethora of stack overflows and empty output files (well full of zeros) has delayed me a little. The stack...
More iPhone Source Code Appearing
I've added two more links to the iPhone code library. The first is an ingenious Objective-C Class explorer that lets you view the various libraries on your iPhone. The second...
A Faster Algorithm For Indexing - FastBit
Apologies, the marking of Challenge 17 has been a bit delayed but will be completed soon. Until recently I didn't know that the US Government (Well Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)...
Cairo Graphics - Open Source 2D Rendering
As part of my iPhone development I've been looking around at C and C++ libraries. Though the iPhone has extensive graphics capability e.g. through Quartz and Open GL ES, the...
Developing Games Part Time While Working Full-time
I'm doing that myself but here's another example of someone creating a game. Using C# to power the asp.net website with SQL Server, developer Aaron Murray has created in his...
Low Cost Microsoft Software for Startup Businesses
Slightly off topic, but not content with giving away the free Express Editions of Visual Studio, SQL server etc, Microsoft is now offering a three year almost zero cost MSDN...
Xiph.org releases Theora 1.0
A codec is a pieces of software that can both code and decode video hence the name, just like modem is short for modulator demodulator. If you've seen any video...
NetHack - from ASCII to 3D
NetHack, a descendant of Rogue is one of the oldest games around, having just reached 21 years old and is still in development at version
3.4.3. It's a hack and...
Studying iPhone development at Stanford or Online
This year's course actually started over a month ago (September 23) so it's too late to join, but it's an interesting syllabus and worth a glance plus there are some...
Programming Challenge Time Again
This weekend is the deadline for challenge 17, so you have until Sunday lunchtime to get your entry in. From tomorrow Challenge 18 is live and it is to generate...
It's a Basic Interpreter but...
The Pagetable.com website have been writing some interesting software in C. How about a Commodore Basic Interpreter (from a CBM-64) that compiles on Windows, Linux and Mac, and written by...
Cracking a Secure Card with Crapto1
A few months back there was quite a fuss when it was revealed that the security on a contactless smart card using the MIFARE Classic chip could be easily circumvented....
A Quick Reminder of Programming Challenge 17
This is due up at the end of the week and I'll mark it over the weekend. We've got five entries so far so more welcome! If you've forgotten, its...
31 Free iPhone Apps with Full Source Code
Well 25 so far with six to go. The website appsamuck.com is publishing 31 individual applications, each with full source code and graphics for the iPhone. There's a variety of...
