One of the cool buzzword these days beside parallel computing is GPGPU as in General Purpose GPU. The base idea of GPGPU is to allow a programmer to tape in the parallel processing capacities of a GPU to do something different than pixel crushing (even though it mostly boils down to that very application most [...]
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Zencomic 0.3 – « Holy Crêpe »
I’m proud to announce the next release of Zencomic, the comic strip-driven productivity enhancer that periodically makes your day funnier by showing comic like Dilbert or XKCD in a bubble. New stuff This release packs a fair number of internal change, UI polishing and a good deal of new comic providers for your pleasure. Comic [...]
PLinq is in
At long last, PLinq has finally found its way into Mono trunk as what can be considered a preview release. The code has seen a major rewrite compared to the initial implementation done during earlier Google Summer of Code which lacked flexibility and correctness. Public API is complete except some operator still not implemented. In [...]
Mono @ OpenJam.ie
The Ubuntu-ie folks are running a slightly tuned Ubuntu Global Jam here in Dublin on Saturday 27th March where basically everyone is welcome to drop by and slackwork on any project he wants. The event has been dubbed OpenJam and every Mono hacker/enthusiast/bystander is most welcome to register on the Mono Corner of the Signup [...]
FOSDEM wrap up
This is kinda late but better than never. This 10th edition of FOSDEM was a blast again. Got to see back good friends and meet new people. This year was a bit special too because we happened to have a dedicated room for Mono thanks to the work of Ruben and Stéphane. It was even [...]
Working on Mono with git-svn
CC by-nd by W. T. L. I won’t go here in depth on how to use git, the official hub has already tutorials to get you started. I’m more interested here in the workflow you can apply and the tools you can use when working on Mono with git-svn (although it can be mostly used [...]
A FOSDEM talk primer
(Shamelessly inspired from Stéphane) Since image processing is both trendy and a good candidate for parallel optimizations, I took the time to implement a little program that compute a part of the Mandelbrot set (a well known fractal) in a fancy way : Now for the facts & numbers : Sequential generation : 26.5s Parallel [...]
Mono happening @ FOSDEM
Mono room So if you weren’t aware of it yet, Mono is going to have its own dedicated room at FOSDEM. In order to spread Mono awesomeness, submit talks here before the 20th. You can even decide yourself how much time you are going to use so don’t hesitate to speak about a cool software [...]
WiFi power saving & kernel 2.6.31
As of Linux kernel 2.6.31 (currently available on Arch Linux for instance), due to a change in the iwl* drivers, the sysfs entries that were managing power saving on related WiFi chips was removed due to some power management-related bugs. As such, it’s impossible to manually set powersaving either using sysfs or via a command [...]
Wicd support patch for Banshee
Shameless plug to tell I’m alive . If you are using Wicd and usually stare at Banshee trying to download cover art or post to last.fm while you are disconnected, the following patch add just the support to fix this. Here is the associated bug report to get the patch integrated. In other news, school [...]