Ruby Roulette

http://everythingbehind.com/post/164836782/could-spam-email-help-me-win-big-at-the-casino

Real time physics simulators

From http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/games.html

I want to "lure" my nephews and nieces towards science and engineering, and one of the things I've done towards that goal is to code some real-time physics simulators.

Waves... (they look much better when they move :-)

All the code I wrote is available below, and compiles under Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, Mac OS/x and Windows (with GCC/MinGW), with the usual...

Git

git

git reset --hard HEAD
git checkout master
for i in $(git rev-list --reverse origin..master) ; do git cvsexportcommit -W -c -p $i; done

$ git cvsimport -i
$ git rebase origin

$ CVSROOT=$URL cvs co module
$ cd module
$ git cvsimport
hack, hack, hack, making two commits, cleaning them up using rebase -i.
$ git cvsexportcommit -W -c -p -u HEAD^
$ git cvsexportcommit -W -c -p -u HEAD

http://blogs.frugalware.org/vmiklos?blog=7&page=1&disp=posts&paged=2

static checking tools

http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder/index.html#othertools

HTML 5 resources

HTML5 Canvas Experiment

by Sebastian Deutsch on August 3rd, 2009

94 Comments

Click here to launch the experiment! (beware: sophisticated browser needed)

HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of FireFox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new betas of Google Chrome and Opera, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. Most interesting: modern mobile devices like the iPhone or Android-based phones also support new standards in favor of Flash. The future looks bright for HTML5.

Time for us to play with this technology. We've created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it'll appear on the screen.

The original particle engine was ported from a Flex/AS3 project that we've created to javascript. We're using processing.js for particle rendering on canvas which is a very useful graphics library created by John Resig. The music will only be played if the browser supports the audio tag. To detect if the audio or canvas feature is present we use the awesome modernizr library. We could have used a fallback solution like playing the sound via Flash. But this experiment is about HTML5 – and who needs Flash anyway?

Big thanks to spokenlounge.com for supporting us and for providing the mp3 track.

If you want to dive into further ressources, then try:

- HTML5Doctor, great ressource about everything HTML5
- Official Mozilla Canvas Tutorial
- Carsonified linklist about HTML5

Open Source Windows Applictions

FileZilla, the free FTP solution
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Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows

T r u e C r y p t

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux

PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.

Compiler errors

http://www.digitalfanatics.org/index.php?title=CompilerErrors