For the past 6 months or more, I've been seeing many codes hosted at sourceforge.net as well as other hosting sites "Move to GitHub". A mere Google Search with the phrase "Moved to Github" returns several results containing the text moved to github. This is very confusing for me, and I'm wondering, why exactly are people moving? Does it mean that…
I am wondering if there is a simple tutorial that covers the basics of how to initialize rotation, translation and projection matrices, and how to multiply them, and how to get the screen coordinates afterwards for a 3d point.
Idealy, the tutorial comes with compilable code and is not dependent on any 3rd party library.
Searching the internet,…
I am trying to build an iOS app that connects to a PHP+MySQL web service. My question is how often should I check for user's authentication to get data from the web service. My app requires a login at start up, but I am wondering if how often should I check if he can still validly get data from the web service. Should I check for his username and…
I'm currently playing with LISP (particularly Scheme and Clojure) and I'm wondering how typical data structures are dealt with in functional programming languages.
For example, let's say I would like to solve a problem using a graph pathfinding algorithm. How would one typically go about representing that graph in a functional programming…
I know there are already various topics discussing what we can do to get managers to buy into good development practices, but I was wondering if there are any specific things we can do to explain to designers that Web Development is more than just turning their design into a website.
I want to try and push them to design based on…
Does anyone know if authorize.net's SIM rids you of having to be PCI compliant? The payment form is hosted on authorize.net's site and they're processing the payment.
I know you can do a relay response which basically puts some of the transaction details in a url that goes back to your website(to display a receipt). I'm not sure…
Im having problems connecting my wifi in Ubuntu 13.04
So i was wondering if filling in the data manually ie: the IPv4, IPv6, the SSID and BSSID info etc. I did try this before but maybe i put in the wrong data or maybe not enough
Would that make it work??
I just dont know how to find out some of the data you need to put in or…
The increased visibility of your website due to high link popularity and search engine placement optimization can mean so much, especially if you are promoting a product or service through your website. If you are new to the business of link building, you might be wondering how to get started with it and how search engine…
I am trying to build a thin client remix using debootstrap. I have been successful but am wondering about one thing.
When I install linux-generic as per linuxlivecdcustomizationfromscratch
It asks me where I want to install grub. I know the package grub is needed if you install Ubuntu off the live cd, but why is it…
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What are the chances of Google's Go becoming a mainstream language?
Recently I've started experimenting with The GO programming language by Google.
Its a programmer-friendly language having the simplicity of Python.
I was wondering whether companies other than Google would also start…
We have this site which is named Vialogues (Video+Discussion web based application).
https://vialogues.com
It has been around for sometime on the internet and we have also submitted sitemap.xml to search engines. However when we search on google or bing or yahoo using the keyword Vialogues, We are given results…
I'd like to know what is the best way to add overall height to the accordion example in the link below.
I would like to make the ul sub-menu class taller, I would want the extra space to show as just empty with no list elements.
http://vtimbuc.net/gallery/pure-css3-accordion-menu-tutorial/
I think it is…
So I was just wondering on how to give a scene I am rendering a hand drawn look (like say Crayon Physics). I don't really want to preprocess the sprites and was thinking of using a shader. Cel shading supplies the effect I want to achieve, but I am only aware of the 3D instances for it.
So I wanted to ask…
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I'm wondering if it's possible to get UFW to list the configured firewall rules even when it's not enabled. I only have ssh access to the server at this time, and I don't want to enable UFW if there's not a rule configured allowing ssh. However, since UFW is currently not enabled, I just get an…
I'm trying to convert some DirectX code to Ogre3D and was wondering what the following translates to:
pDev->SetTextureStage(0, D3DTSS_TEXCOORDINDEX, 0)
pDev->SetTextureStage(0, D3DTSS_COLORARG1, D3DTA_TEXTURE)
pDev->SetTextureStage(0, D3DTSS_COLOROP, D3DTOP_MODULATE)…
Hia I just installed 12.04 on my old ibook G3 (since i wiped the HDD)
Now luckely i have a wifi-ethernet bridge on my pc to give the ibook intertnet
but even when it is connected to eth0 (LAN) it keeps asking to connect to eth1(Wi-Fi)
the router is using WPA2 Personal with AES
I was…
I have a IIS6 web server with 100+ sites on it. Recently, I was forced to renew my wildcard SSL certificate which all the sites use by creating a new CSR request rather than a renew CSR request. I have installed the certificate and can update each site one at a time to use the new…
I have recently started using Ubuntu 13.04. The other day I found the Firefox browser blocked by malware. The website was from Europol and said that it had blocked the browser and that 'everything' had been encrypted.
have uninstalled Firefox. I can still access files but I was…
A comment on this question: Calling A Method that returns a boolean value inside a conditional statement says that you should use !boolean instead of boolean == false when testing conditions. Why? To me boolean == false is much more natural in English and is more explicit. I…
My XDMCP sessions display fine until I login. I've checked all logs and settings for this and can't find anything wrong, this works fine on other systems so I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the underlying hardware or an application that loads when logging in.
…
About many games you can say "oh that's the Unreal engine for sure", "this was made by upgrading GTA 4", etc. We can often recognize the engine used for a game just by looking at its graphics (disregarding menus and such).
I'm wondering, why is this? All game engines use…
I am going to dual-boot install Ubuntu1 10.04 on my laptop with Windows 7. I was wondering
what filesystem types (such as ext2,
ext3, ext4, ReiserFS and whatever might come
into mind) are recommended for
various possible partitions (such as
/, home, /boot, swap, and…
I was wondering if there was an application or something that would allow me to view a workspace in the corner of another workspace?
For example if I had a video playing on one workspace, I'd be able to view it in another workspace while working on something.
I know…
Often I hear the sentiment ...
"Why worry about performance, write slow code, get your product to market ... don't worry about performance. You can sort that out later"
The culmination of this sentiment is:
"... premature optimization is the root of all evil ...…