Category Archives: Personal Rantings

Panorama Stitching

Posted on July 17, 2010 by BlackHC

I’ve finally come around to “clean-up” some old project I’ve had lying around for a few months and upload it. I’m talking about some Panorama Stitching code I wrote for our participation in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup. I’m suppressing all memories … Continue reading →

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Random Things

Posted on November 27, 2009 by BlackHC

It’s been a while since the last update. Here’s a small update on what I’m thinking about various stuff. Prototype Gameplay is okay I guess. Nothing I would spent too much time on though. It looks a lot worse than … Continue reading →

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Extracting Information from StudiVZ

Posted on October 19, 2009 by BlackHC

Some time ago somebody stole 1 million data records from StudiVZ, the German Facebook clone. I’m not exactly sure why people call the person a hacker who stole data, because it appears he simply wrote a tool that harvested the … Continue reading →

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My Bachelor Thesis

Posted on October 17, 2009 by BlackHC

For the last two months I have been working on my bachelor thesis at the Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization. It is about “Multi-Tile Terrain Rendering with OGL/Equalizer”´. The chair has a very nice Direct3D 10 terrain rendering engine … Continue reading →

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More Book Reviews and re: Design Patterns

Posted on August 18, 2009 by BlackHC

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture – A System of Patterns (PoSA I) I’ve finally finished Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture – A System of Patterns and I want to say a few words about it. First I don’t think, it’s a must-buy. It’s okay … Continue reading →

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Fast Forward

Posted on July 18, 2009 by BlackHC

I’ve quite a few things I’ve wanted to write about a long time ago and I actually started working on them and taking notes, etc. but never found time for one reason or another to write and publish the actual … Continue reading →

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Analysis, Cauchy-Schwarz and Reciprocal Sums

Posted on May 7, 2009 by BlackHC

Konkrete Analysis First I want to share some solutions for the exercises of a Maths book. The book is called Konkrete Analysis by Folkmar Bornemann and is written in German as are my solutions for some of the exercises. (I … Continue reading →

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What I (don’t) like about C#

Posted on March 12, 2009 by BlackHC

I’ve been using C# personally quite a bit lately and want to share with you a list of the things I like or don’t about it. First the things I like about it (compared to C++ and Java sometimes): The … Continue reading →

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How to make WordPress display Full Text in RSS Feeds

Posted on January 31, 2009 by BlackHC

… and why WordPress Moderators are obviously idiots Today I got an email asking me to enable full text RSS feeds – so far so good, only when I activated the “Full Text” option nothing changed – neither in FireFox, … Continue reading →

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Partial Integration and the Substitution Rule

Posted on January 10, 2009 by BlackHC

I only want to write this down to have a place to look it up: If we want to integrate , we can use: And if we want to substitute a function in an integral: (with ) or using a … Continue reading →

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