Update: see also PictureFlow running on different mobile devices.

Downtown is like a dead city.

As pointed out by Andry, Justin James’ 10 signs that you are not cut out to be a developer is an absolutely obligatory reading for anyone.

After using Motorola w205 for some time, here I would like to share common tips which might be useful for others new w205 users:

Update: see also PictureFlow running on different mobile devices, from Greenphone to HTC smartphones.

Still about PictureFlow, my CoverFlow-effect clone, I did give some thoughts on improving its rendering quality without sacrificing the performance and still doing it in software (no help from graphics card).

Another no-time-yet-to-finish-it pet project of mine is a media player, something like for media center or portable device. I code it in SDL, in a hope that targeting platforms like GP2x and Nokia N800 are easy. But knowing that Qtopia (soon) runs also on N800, I am thinking of moving the code to pu...

Starting from Monday, for few days Lidl Germany will sell some Thai stuff, mostly food and spices. While reading the flyer and also its website, I stumbled upon this:

Happy Eid Al-Fitr to all!

During my adventure to find an ideal mobile phone, I often get arguments like: well, if you don’t need a particular feature, just don’t use it. The counter-argument is easy: if I don’t need a feature, why should it exist after all? Reducing the complexity of software and hardware in a mobile phone c...

I know I should be doing something “useful”, but the fresh-from-oven OpenSUSE 10.3 is just too good to skip. Thus, I decided to waste a weekend to try it. In short: it’s very solid and attractive, without doubt the best OpenSUSE release so far.

It is definitely interesting to know Oslo, one of the most beautiful and also most expensive city in the world.

Within hours, I’ll be in a train to Berlin. This is my third trip to Berlin this year, the first was for KOffice weekend, the second was for LinuxTag. Unlike the first two, this time it’s not for “personal satisfaction” only because I’ll be attending this year’s ECOC (European Conference on Optical ...

Ultimatum is the last of the Bourne trilogy films. Here Jason was back, among others in Europe, on the search for his past. CIA tried to stop him by all means, but due to an internal conflict, some (including Nicky, again) tried to help him. You’ll be following his journey and his struggles with a c...

These are rainbow trouts, marinated with some drops of lemon, salt and pepper, vegetable oil, soy sauce, tomato ketchup, spicy sambal, covered in aluminum foil together with slices of vegetables (e.g. carrot and kohlrabi), and baked for 15 minutes at 200 C. Simply delicious.

This one also happens not so seldom.

(Found via ogmaciel.com)

(No, this isn’t about the Linus’ Tech Talk video on git).

One word: it rocks!

Who is going to pay almost $500 for a phone?

Aug 17 is Indonesia’s independence day.

Did you ever try to assemble and create a great product but lately much more better, powerful and yet cheaper components are suddenly available, and were they available sooner, your life would have been significantly simplified? Setting aside first that nobody can really predict the future, it is im...

This is a real-world problem, but could also serve well as an interview question. The task is to create two sequences of numbers which when plotted against each other (ala Lissajous curve) give the following (the knots are there to emphasize the points):

Did you ever experience the typical scenario like this before?

A fellow had just been hired as the new CEO of a large high tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. “Open these if you run up against a problem you don’t think you can solve,” he said.

Soldier 1: Just go and let me die in peace… Soldier 2: Do you want any gravy, sir?

Man: L.O. Waiter: L.O. Man: R.U.B.C. Waiter: S.V.R.B.C. Waitress: L.O. Waiter: L.O. Man: L.O. Man: F.U.N.E.X. Waiter: S.V.F.X. Man: F.U.N.E.M. Waiter: 9. Man: I.F.C.D.M. Waiter: V.F.N.10.E.M. Waitress: A. V.F.M. Man: R. Waiter: O. Waitress: C. D.M. Waiter: O.S. V.F.M. Man: O.K. M.N.X. Waiter: M.N.X....

If the download counter is correct, we have already more than 11,000 downloads for SpeedCrunch 0.7, the latest stable release. And this of course doesn’t include installation via package manager (from apt to pirut). Not bad, considered it’s just released over 2 months ago.

Coming back from Berlin, I just realized that I got that stream of ideas again, of all things just now when my TODO list is unbelievably long, filled with all those backlog items for Real Life, KOffice, my PhD, and assorted fun projects. Granted, probably filling the TODO is still much better than h...