Robot wall climber

An interesting article about a climbing robot is here.

console/window hybrid application

Some message board postings discuss a console/window hybrid application in C#. I'd like to see if adding a console interface during development to a program that is normally a gui might help with debugging.

functional programming

According to this article, closures and anonymous lambda functions are related to functional programming. I'm still gathering information about this. It does not look easy enough to use yet.

Talking Signs

More information about the Talking Signs project may be found here.

closures

This article discusses closures a bit. Perhaps it is one of the reasons for some people switching to Ruby. I heard of anonymous classes before and perhaps they are related to this topic, but I don't use them and am not familiar with when they should be used.

SanDisk Boosts SD Card Speed by Fifty Percent

SanDisk Boosts SD Card Speed by Fifty Percent.

The New SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition SDHC Line Easily Supports Continuous Shooting Performance in Nikon's New D90 Digital SLR Camera

Concurrency Friendly Data Structures

This article describes how linked lists and balanced trees should perform within a concurrent program. To me it sounds like something fundamental that should be learned, but I have avoided doing concurrent programming for quite a while now.

Problem with Windows XP SP 3 upgrade

Error message after you upgrade a computer that uses a processor other than an Intel processor to Windows XP Service Pack 2 or to Windows XP Service Pack 3: "STOP: 0x0000007E"

You receive a “Stop 0x0000007E” error message after you upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 on a non-Intel-processor-based computer

RIAS

Talking Signs Remote Infrared Audible Signage project:
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/RIAS/

This technology is designed to substitute for missing visual cues for those with limited or no sight.

Gram-Vaani

How Community Radio Becomes 'Voice of the Village'

Researchers developed a low cost hardware and software platform for doing radio and wish to deploy it in India.

Houdini Apprentice

Side Effects Software is offering a program called Houdini Apprentice for free. I tried out the 64 bit version for Ubuntu 7.10 on Ubuntu 8.04. Initially it had some GUI problems but a quick search of the forums helped by suggesting a change to the threading for the interface. The windowing still seems a bit unstable with the refreshes sometimes, but it is usable now. My friend and I tried to render an animation on the dual core machine and it did well relative to a pc with a single core processor.

world's biggest 3D display

world's biggest 3D display

Cellular Automata

A game of life applet on the web is related to cellular automata. This should be looked into later.

Joel article about Hungarian notation

The Joel on software blog had an article on Hungarian notation. I don't use it, but he has some ideas that might help make use of it in a sensible way in the future. It helped me with an assembly language project at school when I had handles and pointers to deal with, but I'm looking into learning higher level languages now. He describes a rebellion against it starting around the initial .Net release time. He also mentions something written by Raymond Chen about exceptions hindering the safety of code. I've read people use exceptions differently in Python versus C#, but I need to actually find some code to see the difference. I'll need to look into this further later.

LiMo & android

Some other platforms planned for programming mobile phones are LiMo and Android. An article about them is at arstechnica. Android will be used by an organization called the Open Handset Alliance (OHA).

Chandler 1.0 released

An article noting the release of Chandler 1.0 and describing some of its history is here.

Python development for Nokia S60

Nokia has a web site for development for the Nokia S60 here. It sounds interesting, but I don't know much about it yet. I've seen stuff mentioned about iphone development as well. I'm leaning toward the Nokia platform currently since it sounds cheaper and this would be done as a hobby project.

Moe the hedgehog

I'm helping develop a site for Moe the hedgehog.

picture of 27 hd monitor computer setup

A picture of a 27 hd monitor computer setup is on the web. The comments note that apparently the picture shown on the monitors is a desktop image with a menu option altered to "you wish".

invisible sphere

A invisible sphere monitoring device is mentioned at this site. It is kind of funny to see it labeled as invisible after seeing it.