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Design, interactivity, multimedia .. just another day at work :)

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what if google adwords associated/sense associated products and current news? would that be something? instead of seeing an ad about something you searched, you would see an ad about something you will need.

"Sandy is coming" -> water filters, search and rescue tools, power generators, etc..

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TFL delays, just imagine someone truly taking advantage of this amazing opportunity!

Something within the lines of an app where you set up a "general route to work/home" and if any of the points in between has problems or delays you get an update advising you to take your alternative route 2 or suggesting a different one without issues 

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I bet You I can create an all business model around cardboard!

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Don't want to forget about this little one!

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Growing and growing and growing. I have been following sugru for about a week now and I am getting some very interesting ideas about the material and its uses.

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Keep in mind... return pointers are usefull

void somefunction (int inval1, int inval2, int *outval1, int *outval2) {    int x = inval1;    int y = inval2; // do some processing    *outval1 = x;    *outval2 = y;    return; }

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Variadic C functions (very helpfull :)

#include <stdarg.h> #include <stdio.h> int add_em_up (int count,...) { va_list ap; int i, sum; va_start (ap, count); /* Initialize the argument list. */ sum = 0; for (i = 0; i < count; i++) sum += va_arg (ap, int); /* Get the next argument value. */ va_end (ap); /* Clean up. */ return sum; } int main (void) { /* This call prints 16. */ printf ("%d\n", add_em_up (3, 5, 5, 6)); /* This call prints 55. */ printf ("%d\n", add_em_up (10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)); return 0; }

(source www.gnu.org)

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Organic materials are becoming more and more promissing...

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Profiling C

I've been doing some research on C language profiling tools, so I'll leave it here as a resource (unfortunatly none seems to be compatible with OpenTV's ocode):

Unix based:

GNU's gprof: http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/as/gprof_toc.html and example: http://kuscsik.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-benchmark-c-code-using-gcc.html

Valgrind: http://valgrind.org/

Windows based:

IBM's Purify: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/purify/

Insure: http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/insure.jsp;jsessionid=baa8DG3KsXDwi5?itemId=63

Rational Quantify (expensive, slow, but very detailed)

 AQTime (less expensive, less slow, a bit detailed)

Very sleepy (www.codersnotes.com)

Luke StackWalker (somewhere on SourceForge

Both:

Intel's VTUNE http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-vtune-amplifier-xe/

AMD's CodeAnalyst http://developer.amd.com/cpu/codeanalyst/Pages/default.aspx

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After fighting with MS Visual Studio a bit I finally got MSAFluids working this morning!! props Memo Akten for the code! 

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Chess (Germany vs Portugal and Portugal vs Anonymous)

In rare ocasions I've good games :)

Check this one out using: http://members.shaw.ca/lapides/pgnedit/pgnedit.html

[Event "Work day game (10 min Blitz)"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "17-02-2011"]

[White  "Anonymous (1140) from Germany"]

[Black  "Me"]

[Result "0-1"]

[Position White "Ke1,Qd1,Ra1,Rh1,Bc1,Bf1,Nb1,Ng1,a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2,g2,h2"]

[Position Black "Ke8,Qd8,Ra8,Rh8,Bc8,Bf8,Nb8,Ng8,a7,b7,c7,d7,e7,f7,g7,h7"]

[Topic "Petrov"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 {Petrov defense} 3. Bd3 {??} d5 4. Nxe5 dxe4 5. Bc4 Qe7 6. Nxf7 {!} Bg4 {!!} 7. Be2 {!} Qxf7 8. Bxg4 Bc5 9. d4 Nxg4 10. Qxg4 Bxd4 11. Be3 Bxe3 12. fxe3 O-O 13. Qxe4 Qf2 {+} 14. Kd1 Nc6 15. Nd2 Rad8 16. Qd5 {+} Kh8 17. Kc1 Qxd2 {!+} 18. Kb1 Nb4 19. Rc1 Qxc1 {+ queen sacrifice for mate} 20.Kxc1 Rf1 {#}  0-1 

======================Game 2

[Event ""]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date ""]

[White  "Me"]

[Black  "Anonymous"]

[Result "1-0"]

[Position White "Ke1,Qd1,Ra1,Rh1,Bc1,Bf1,Nb1,Ng1,a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2,g2,h2"]

[Position Black "Ke8,Qd8,Ra8,Rh8,Bc8,Bf8,Nb8,Ng8,a7,b7,c7,d7,e7,f7,g7,h7"]

[Topic "Philidor"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 {Philidor Defence} 3. Bc4 Bg4 4. d4 Bxf3 5. Qxf3 Nf6 6. dxe5 dxe5 7. Qb3 Qd7 8. Qxb7 Nc6 9. Qxa8 {+} Ke7 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bd5 hxg5 12. Bxc6 Qd4 13. Nc3 Nxe4 14. Nxe4 Qxb2 15. O-O Qxc2 16. Rfd1 Ke6 17. Qe8 {+} Be7 18. Qxh8 Qxc6 19. Qc8 {+} Qd7 {??} 20. Qxd7 {#}   1-0 

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The MAN!

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Or as I like to call them ... the Triplets :)

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Currently working on a facebook project involving some cool animations.. if jquery is the game, aviaslider is the name.

Oh and personal note, there are several API for c# facebook apps: facebook SDK, facebook Toolkit, Facebook .Net, ... I would go for the first one if I were you. I tried the 3. So here you go http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/ .

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Microsoft Lifecam Studio & Tripod support, aprox value (70+60+shipping) 150€, until now looks good for computer vision, but be sure to have a powerfull computer (graphics, ram, processor,usb 2.0,....).

I've got a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU, T7500 @ 2.20 GHz, 1.58 GHz, 3,00 GB of RAM,  Windows XP Service Pack 3 and I'm dieing in here!

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Some cool addons for of.. dont expect any support :P