A common thing you might want to do, when you developing an Android app, is to have a ListView of checkable items. For instance, you might want to have a functionality in your app to share something with a bunch of people, who you would like to select from a list of contacts. For common [...]

Hello everyone. In this post I will try to provide you with a quick example on how to implement push notifications for your Android app using MQTT protocol. I will NOT discuss here why an application might need push notifications or the advantages of Push over Pull. I assume that you know exactly what I [...]

This is another geeky assignment that I had to do as part of a grad course that I’m taking. I had to implement Peter’s Cromwell’s algorithm to generate celtic knots that you can find here. If you don’t know what celtic knots are, here is an example generated with my program:

In the end, I significantly [...]

I’m currently enrolled in a graduate computer graphics course that covers various non-photo realistic rendering concepts. One the things that I got to work on as a part of the course was a half-toning technique based on Weighted Voronoi stippling. Stippling is a way to simulate varying degrees of shading and tone in an image [...]

Yesterday Google has finally launched its highly anticipated project Chrome OS into the open-source world. The webcast of the presentation, which featured an early demo of the system, was available to anyone in the world. After the demo, Google News practically exploded with thousands of articles, where tech-savy critics tried to bash or praise Google’s [...]