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Name: Mauro Persano
Member since: 2005-03-31 16:27:10
Last Login: 2009-07-03 21:20:38

Notes: Mostly self-taught programmer living in São Paulo, Brazil. Corporate code monkey by day, wannabe free software hacker by night. By the way, English is not my first language (such a convenient excuse).

Contact: m (at) fzort (dot) org

You won't find me in any of the "social network" sites. Sorry.

Projects

Lead Developer on aamath
Contributor on xlockmore
Lead Developer on vulcan
Lead Developer on GKrellM Sunlight
Lead Developer on wmgoban

Recent blog entries by fzort

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23 Jun 2009 »

MAKE TIME

I'm permanently going off-line on IM services. That stuff is too much of a time sink. I'm still reachable through e-mail. Thank you.

23 Jun 2009 »

Spammers seem to be scripting their attacks. Let's face it, that's not too hard. Maybe we need catchas.

20 May 2009 »

Wolfram Alpha is making me feel in the future. Fun.

19 May 2009 (updated 19 May 2009 at 14:10 UTC) »

Looks like there's a movie coming out about Hypatia of Alexandria, the 4th century Greek mathematician and astronomer who, unfortunately, is less famous for her actual works than for being torn to pieces by a Christian lynch mob led by pious bishop Cyril (who would later become Saint Cyril).

I'd be ecstatic if the movie showed mathematics, but the synopsis at Wikipedia suggests that the odds of that happening are slim. Still, I'm all for movies about martyrs of reason. There's a trailer.

Speaking of mathematics, Wolfram Alpha is out.

16 Apr 2009 (updated 16 Apr 2009 at 23:50 UTC) »

Stuff I've been doing outside work

I haven't posted in a while, so here's an update.

Game coding: I'm writing yet another game. This time I'm working with some talented artists, so who knows. I won't say much about it except that it will feature audible explosions in the vacuum of space. Here's a debugging screenshot of an octree (that stuff really helps). I wrote a firing pattern scripting system, inspired on BulletML, but using Scheme. Here's a screenshot of an editor for a 2D shmup, featuring my hacked OpenGL GUI toolkit.
Prolog: I played a bit with Prolog, after reading on the 5th Generation Computer project. A really interesting piece of computing history I didn't know about. Prolog is mind-explodey.
Learning Japanese: it's apparent that my crappy English is at a local minimum and will hardly get any better, so I decided to try something different. Memorized the kana, thanks to Kanatest (I should send the authors a postcard). I'm learning on my own, using this book/CD set, which isn't bad. I'll try to take the JLPT Level 4 by the end of the year.

I'm also studying for a few more Sun certifications, but I guess that counts as work.

Mindless hyperlink propagation

Wolfram Alpha: I hope this goes Skynet and takes over the world.
Metacrap: oldie but goldie by Cory Doctorow.
Fast Geometry Hashing for Automated Astrometry: solving the interesting algorithmic problem of figuring out from which part of the skies a picture of some stars comes from.

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