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15 Nov 2007 (updated 15 Nov 2007 at 12:14 UTC) »

Please keep your images out of Advogato's recentlog. I'm sooooo interested in the 18 pictures of whatever you had for lunch in your trip to Disney World.

Speaking of bandwidth, the Moon images and videos taken from Kaguya's HDTV camera look incredible. The "Earth-set" video is so beautiful.

On other news, I haven't had a lot of hacking time lately, been studying for a stupid Oracle certificate in my scarce non-work hours. Stupid, but hopefully it will make my resume more sellable.

14 Nov 2007 (updated 21 Apr 2009 at 21:02 UTC) »

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8 Nov 2007 (updated 8 Nov 2007 at 11:22 UTC) »

Yay. A google search suggests that my little project was packaged for at least four obscure linux distributions.

ingvar: stay away from ProjectEuler. It's made of evil! (I'm mpersano there. Solved 110 problems. I'm clean now, though.)

New version of vulcan released. Live long and prosper, or something.

5 Nov 2007 (updated 5 Nov 2007 at 10:22 UTC) »

I'm adding some gratuitous eye candy to vulcan. This makes things even more confusing than they already are, but I've been meaning to experiment with that stuff for a while. It will make screenshots for sites such as freshmeat look a bit nicer, but I'll probably make it an option that will be turned off by default.

More importantly, I replaced the 3d models with free ones, taken from the xscreensaver mode "endgame" (which, in turn, took the 3d models from glChess). Not only are these models free, but they also look much nicer than the ones I was using.

New version to be released Real Soon Now.

StevenRainwater, thanks so much for all your hard work!

Released a new version of vulcan, sporting an improved user interface (screenshot).

I was going to add an impromptu rant on the suckiness of Java generics, but what's the point.

25 Oct 2007 (updated 25 Oct 2007 at 17:21 UTC) »

Released version 0.5 of vulcan. There was a lot of new things I wanted to add, but it was taking too long, and it's almost a month since the previous release, so I just removed some stuff and packaged.

Here' s an interesting paper by Oleg Kiselyov. From the abstract:

The present examples as well as available theoretical and experimental results pose a question if OOP is conducive to software development at all.

He shows that you can't enforce the Lyskov substitution principle using standard OOP tools, and proposes a strict, group-theoretic definition of subclassing. Interesting read, but I can't help feeling that the whole thing is an excuse for Oleg to show off his wickedly clever Set-as-subclass-of-Bag C++ code. :)

After more than a year, a new release of vulcan.

I shall release earlier and more often from now on.

Looks like Linus has something to say about C++.

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