July 2011
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Building OpenCV 2.3 on OSX 10.7 Lion
After upgrading to 10.7 (my 10.6 just refused to boot up one day, using odd looking kernel panic messages as a poor excuse for doing so), I decided to play with OpenCV.
First obvious step - compile it using CMake. First issue - “make” breaks around ~%50.
I got the following issue:
/Users/grisha/Downloads/OpenCV-2.3.0/modules/highgui/src/grfmt_png.cpp: In member function ‘virtual...
Let's do this again
I’ve been thinking lately - maybe I should get myself a tiny little blog to post tech stuff. I thought about using Google+ for that, but decided I wouldn’t feel comfortable using Google’s social network for that.
Thought process continued - let’s try tumblr, I’ve used it before and remember that it was pretty low effort. Upon logging into tumblr, I realized that I...
February 2009
3 posts
Free/Open Source Mobile Development @ Waterloo,...
Today I attend this great event organized by fosslc.org and FOSSFactory.org. Videocast of it should be posted relatively soon, look for it at the event’s page.
It lasted for about 6 or so hours (we went over time for nearly an hour), and was great fun!
I won’t go into details at this time (mainly because it is very late…), but here are some highlights:
I’ve met...
Twitter + is.gd bookmarklet
Here is a new bookmarklet. It uses http://is.gd to create short urls, and “types” them into your twitter status box. Drag it onto your bookmarks tab & start clicking:
twitterLink
Initially I wanted my twitter bookmarklet to use is.gd for its shorturl purposes. However, my first Twitter bookmarklet used tinyurl due my inability to find a jsonp api wrapper for is.gd.
Since I...
Twitter + tinyURL bookmarklet
For those of you who are tired of copying and pasting links whenever you’d like to minify the link and post it on twitter, read on:
Simply drag the following link onto your bookmarks tab: twitterLink
Woot, you’re done!
Now, whenever you’re on a site that you would like to post on your twitter, simply click your newly created twitterLink button
You will be taken to twitter...