Author Archives: Stavros Vologiannidis

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

April 14, 2008
In other words, how to rent an army of slaves on demand. Quoting from Amazon Web Services (emphasis mine): Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mecha...

Lego Mindstorm NXT self balancing robot

April 12, 2008
Lego Mindstorm NXT are a great platform for many things such as games, education etc. In the following I will described my adventures with the standard LEGO Mindstorm NXT package + a Gyro from hitech...

Trac, SVN quick howto on a linux Debian

April 10, 2008
In the following, I will present a mini guide to setup Trac 0.10.3 and SVN services on a Linux Debian stable. I needed a per project authentication both in trac and in svn. I just finished it, seems ...

Text Analysis inside Lucene

April 1, 2008
Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org) is a well-known Informational Retrieval (IR) library, implemented in Java, which allows you to add powerful indexing and searching capabilities to your application. ...

Scientific Workplace και Ελληνικά

March 23, 2008
Το Scientific workplace είναι ένα πολύ καλό εμπορικό front-end για το Latex. Θα περιγράψουμε ένα τρόπο να γράψουμε ελληνικά με το Scientific Workplace που βασίζεται στο omega του Γιάννη Χαραλάμπους. ...

Remote Procedure Calls in GWT

March 20, 2008
From google GWT RPC makes it easy for the client and server to pass Java objects back and forth over HTTP. When used properly, RPCs give you the opportunity to move all of your UI logic to the client...

Phun with physics

March 11, 2008
http://www.phun.at/ Quoting: Phun is a Master of Science Thesis by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLab, Umeå University. Phun is meant to be a playground w...

No Time to Think

March 9, 2008
Where is the space and time in which we get quiet enough to think in deeper ways? Which are the tools to enable us do that? Very interesting/good talk, extremely interesting subject, nothing really n...