Articles for February 2004

Rendering glyphs to bitmaps with the FreeType library Thursday 5 at 22:11
A small C program to create bitmaps of individual characters, using FreeType 2.
Orkut — now I'm in the club Thursday 5 at 22:33
After I asked, Andy invited me to join.
Hikaru's Go Tuesday 10 at 23:00
Some notes about Hikaru no Go, an interesting anime series about the game Igo or Go.
Converting TrueType glyphs to PostScript Sunday 22 at 15:50
A small C program for extracting outline information from a font for a single glyph and outputting it in an encapsulated PostScript image.
Text::VimColor version 0.08 Wednesday 25 at 22:50
New release which fixes three small bugs and expands the test suite.
Finally got my camera to work with Linux Thursday 26 at 20:06
A Mustek MDC 3500 digital camera works fine under Linux, but only with later kernels (2.6 at least). It's even possible to copy arbitrary files to the memory card.
Random thoughts about code quality, timesheeting and CVS Thursday 26 at 20:35
Discussion about what was involved in creating the latest release (0.08) of Text::VimColor, and why small changes to code can take a long time to implement. Could CVS help in tracking time taken on programming jobs?
Using Perl Inline C to access FreeType library Thursday 26 at 23:33
Some experimentation aimed at using FreeType from Perl, and using the Perl Inline module with non-inline C code.

Miniblog

(nuggets of inanity)

Tuesday Apr 24th 2007, 16:54 »: Just took the annual web design survey that AListApart do. I don't realy consider myself to be a web designer, but I have been doing a lot of HTML and CSS lately.
Monday Apr 23rd 2007, 18:23 »: Strange, there appears to be a bare-knuckle boxing match going on in the field outside my flat. Wish they wouldn't make so much noise about it.
Thursday Mar 1st 2007, 18:47 »: “In its written form, Hebrew has no vowels, making it the ideal language for texting.”
—Said in jest on some Radio 4 programme just now.

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