I have started looking into PHP libraries that might help with the task of building the new World Series of ‘Tubing site. I have tried to get into CakePHP, but the number of keywords and magic spells that you need to know frustrates me to no end. This says something about where I am in [...]
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Optimizing Your Mac
So I was having trouble watching The Office on hulu the other night due to an extremely slow network connection, but then I decided to look closely at my network traffic for a little while and see what I was actually sending/receiving. This was very enlightening. Excited about the information I found, I decided to [...]
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openCV planar object detection
Tonight I was playing around with some code that I found in this thread about natural marker AR made with SURF. It’s pretty neat stuff. This is building on some other stuff that I wrote just to do tempalte matching using a class I made: cvSURFImage. (cvSURFImage.h cvSURFImage.cpp) Most of this stuff comes from the [...]
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Chipmunk and openFrameworks
Chipmunk is a great physics engine for use with openFrameworks because it isn’t weighed down with any graphics support. The documentation is pretty sparse, but I am starting on a little wrapper working and incorporated the ofxDelaunay addon by plong0. There are still a lot of things missing, like springs and joints and stuff. But [...]
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HousingMaps save location
I’m looking for an apartment again, which means that I am spending a lot of time on housingmaps.com. It’s a great site. Much easier then my Earthify. The one problem is that it doesn’t remember the location and zoom level of the Google Map when you bookmark a search. This is annoying because part of [...]
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Red5 on DreamhostPS
This weekend I installed Red5 on my DreamhostPS account. Note: You do need Dreamhost PS to run Red5 because it is a persistent process. Non-PS accounts don’t allow persistent processes and it will be killed. Here is what I did: I made a new user – just to keep all of the red5 stuff quarantined [...]