The GLA I (Glassomium one) is still a work in progress, but it’s so exciting seeing it come alive! The mirror mounts and camera still need to be put in place, the back needs to be covered, the IR lights need to be installed, a power supply circuitry needs to be built, fans need to be added and a few other minor details need to be taken care of. During the summer I came up with the design, then through the ACM […]
I have been busy designing a new application for Glassomium. I’m not sure of how I’m going to call it, but it’s going to work as follow: A user places his/her phone on the table. The table recognizes the phone, confirms the identity of the person. A menu pops out, providing the user with the ability to pull out pictures, videos, contact information and a business card. The menu responds to movements of the phone on the table. Other users […]
Everyday I have to deal with something way more challenging than discovering an off-by-one bug in a messy 2k lines source and that’s waking up. I love to sleep, what can I say. But a month ago I finally decided that my every morning agony had to stop and that there must have been a way to wake up in a pleasant way. So I decided to brainstorm on a few ideas. For sure I wanted music to wake me up, not an […]
Do you like my charger for the Playbook? No, it’s not because I lost the original, neither because I have so much free time that I’d rather take apart my tablet instead of buying a replacement cable. It’s because some engineer thought it would be clever to require at least 1 or 2% of battery left to start the charging process. Now that doesn’t make sense at all. Seriously? I haven’t used/charged my playbook in a month, so there’s no […]
I have finally settled on a name for the table top surface window manager that I’ve been working on. It’s Glassomium, a combination of the words glass and Chromium (the open source version of Google Chrome). I’m surprised that I was able to pull out a nice logo out of my rudimentary design skills too! https://www.glassomium.org
Lately there’s been some some excitement about the new Samsung SUR40 table which ships with the latest version of Microsoft Surface. Cool piece of hardware indeed, if I could afford it I would put it into my wish list. Another device, another SDK, another user experience. Am I the only person who is getting sick of porting applications for different platforms? For the past 5 years the “apps” world has taken over. We have created sophisticated games and applications for […]
I’m not a person that gives up easily. Soon after my interview experience with Microsoft I applied for a position in software development at Amazon and my resume was able to catch the attention of the people from HR. My first phone interview happened sometimes in December 2011. The usual technical questions that you would expect from big technology companies, given a problem go through the solution, do complexity analysis, write the code. I don’t actually remember how I did […]
If you have a spare old computer and electricity bills don’t worry you so much, what do you do? I decided to use mine as my media streaming server. I put my favorite music and movies onto it and initially I simply streamed them to the Wii in my living room and to my laptop. After a while I realized that when I’m cooking I also like to listen to my music (or web radio). So here came the idea […]
I’ve always been fairly satisfied with Programmer’s Notepad and PSPad for most of my simple projects with Ruby, Python or HTML. A few days ago browsing my G+ feeds I found Sublime Text 2. At the time of writing it’s still in beta and you can try it out for free, but the author does ask you to pay a small license fee for prolonged and constant use. Here are a few features that I think make this editor worth […]
So lately I’ve been taking some introductory classes that are part of my Electrical Engineering minor and I have to say that they turned out to be quite boring and never deviated from the typical “looking at graphs on the oscilloscope and calculating values on circuit diagrams”. Yet the subject is extremely interesting (and fun to play with), so I started reading on my own. I was particularly interested to read about programmable micro controllers, so I couldn’t wait much […]