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| Friday, January 22, 2010 |
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Wow, more then five years without an update..i've been lazy :) But i decided to put the two main papers i've written during university online for the interested. First, my project thesis: Implementierung und Evaluation eines fokussierten Context Graph Crawlers (in german), about the implementation and evaluation of a focused crawler, a webcrawler that tries to find websites of a given topic aided by a context graph, using computational learning to build a classifier that guesses how far a given website is away from a relevant page to decide if it should follow the links on that site. And second, my diploma thesis, A Visual Rendering of a Semantic Wiki Query Language (Abstract). The thesis first gives a survey of some of the most important and interesting visual languages for modelling, programming and querying. Then it details the conception, design and implementation of visKWQL, a browser-based visual query language i developed for the KiWi Project. visKWQL can be seen in action in the KiWi Showcase (not always available since KiWi is still in development). visKWQL will also be demoed at the WWW2010. |
| Wednesday, October 6, 2004 |
| Yesterday i finally had the last exam. I passed them all alot better then expected, but i'm just happy that the learning is finally over. And now i got almost two weeks free before the next semester starts :) |
| Wednesday, 07/21/04 |
| Hehe, just to show that i'm not completely neglecting this homepage i've just finally updated/rewritten the oh-so-informative About-Me page for the over-curious people who have nothing better to do than to read about-me pages from strangers on the internet ;) |
| Saturday, 07/10/04 |
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Hmm i'm too lazy...3 months and no updates...sorry :) But i have some important exams during the summer, so i guess it will take another few months until i have the motivation to spend time for something worth to put here...sorry again :) |
| Wednesday, 04/07/04 |
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Been a long time since the last update...sorry :) Only thing new for the site is a greatly extended links page. Other than that i've just been enjoying my holidays and learned C# and .Net, both of which impressed me alot. C# has actually become my new favourite language, and i've begun work on a little tool with it, which you can expect to see here sometime in the future, if i actually get around to finish it :) |
| Friday, 02/20/04 |
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so today was the last exam..and now holidays for two months! woohoo :)
we also decided to put our malefiz game online, so if you want you can download it here |
| Saturday, 02/14/04 |
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and so the semester comes to an end. the malefiz-implementation we had to code for our programming-project is finally finished. Yesterday was then the great contest of the AI players. 23 teams, 4 hours of matches, and our bot 'Braindead' not only made it's way to the great finale, a four-player match for the first four wins, that was displayed with a beamer for the more then hundred people present, but..WON IT!!! hehe good times :) and now only two more exams next week and then finally holidays! |
| Friday, 01/23/04 |
| ah well, all code updates will have to wait for another couple weeks...in one week our exams begin and the last one will be on february 20. But then i'll have two months holidays and hopefully some more time and motivation to continue raytracer and script-interpreter :) |
| Sunday, 01/04/04 |
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Well originally i intended to start working on the raytracer again in the holidays, but somehow i got obsessed with creating a script language.. :) I only worked a bit on it for the last week, and when uni starts again on thursday i doubt i will have much time for it until the semester-holidays starting mid-february, but i put the current code up on a new page anyway, since i haven't put up any new content here for months :) |
| Thursday, 01/01/04 |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! |
| Wednesday, 12/24/03 |
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! |
| Sunday, 11/09/03 |
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Hmm last night was really cool..at 6:15am today we came out of the cinema...after 7 hours of watching Matrix..:) I also thought Revolutions was pretty good, just the end was a bit not up to my expectations, but otherwise it was very cool. But seeing all three parts in a row was quite cool, this way you get the full picture, and parts 2 and three are just one long movie anyway. |
| Saturday, 11/01/03 |
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Ahh soon we will know how the trilogy ends...this week The Matrix Revolutions will finally air. After watching the trailers i really can't await to see it...the great final fights, Neo vs. Smith(s), Humans vs. Machines...it's gonna be great :) And i already have more than 50€ worth of tickets on my desk, since me and a couple friends are going to see the triple feature in Munich's 'Cinema' next weekend...Matrix I, II and III in a row, all in the original english version, beginning next saturday 10:45pm...watching the Matrix till sunday morning..that's gonna be a cool night :) |
| Monday, 10/27/03 |
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And there the first week of uni is already over...and it's quite ok so far, we have a script in almost any course, so i don't need to attend every lecture to take notes. Our programming project also seems to become interesting, it is a p2p multiplayer implementation of the malefiz boardgame. Last saturday i've been to the open day in Garching, the place near munich where a lot of university buildings and research centers are housed. We were actually allowed into the room with the 4TFlop supercomputer of the Max Planck institute for plasmaphysics. This is the fastest computer in germany and currently number 24 in the world. And i now have a photo (although it's turned out very unsharp) of me standing only centimeters apart from it! That's kinda cool :) We also could go into the building with the ASDEX Upgrade, germany's largest fusion-reactor ( Advanced Tokamak type, it's used to study fusion in a reactor of the size it is supposed to have in future fusion-powerplants, once they can keep their plasmas for longer then a few milliseconds :)) We could also take pieces of the reactor's old carbon-isolation with us...hehe it's quite cool to have something that was once in the immediate vicinity of 100 million kelvin hot plasma :) |
| Sunday, 10/19/03 |
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And there go the holidays...tomorrow my 3rd semester will start. I almost can't believe that it's already a whole year since i started uni. Oh well, but after so much free time now i'm actually quite happy that uni starts again, although this semester is going to be tough..here are the nice courses i take/have to take this semester: - Computer Science III: Operating Systems - Programming project (we will have to code some multiplayer game in java in teams of 5) - Analysis II ( multidimensional integration, multi-variable differential calculus, curves and surfaces in n-dimensional euclidean space and introduction to propability-theory ) - Discrete Structures ( i'm not really sure yet what this is about, but we have to take it, so... but it seems to be mainly about logics and the mathematics of trees and graphs ) - Ordinary Differential Equations At 6 hours/week each + homework + learning this is going to be really hard..especially after last semester where i only had to attend lectures twice a week :) Anyway, i hope to find some free time to do some C++ coding or some other stuff to be put here on the webpage, but if all i'll put here over the coming months is the occasional news item about uni-stuff you know the reason :) |
| Tuesday, 10/07/03 |
| wow it's only the first week of october and we just had the first snow..i can't believe it's only been a very few weeks ago that i was complaining about the almost 40°C weather :) |
| Monday, 10/06/03 |
| and again two weeks without an update...for lack of anything better here are some pics of a really cool evening sky from a couple days ago: 1 2 3 4 5 :) |
| Monday, 09/16/03 |
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damn..more then a month since the last update.. and i've just been really lazy during the whole time...with the weather so nice all the time i didn't spent much time coding or doing anything else worth showing off here, just been doing some small stuff and learning some SWING (the java GUI API) recently to be fit for our programming project next semester. Luckily it's still a month till holidays are over, but i'll have to use some of the time for other learning too...unfortunately one of the math courses i want to take next semester is at the same time as the Operating Systems course i need to take, so i will have to learn for the easier one(the OS course) solely from books and scripts anyway, so i will begin doing that now, to have more time during the semester for the other stuff then, like the massive amount of math-homework coming towards me from 3 different courses, and the aforementioned programming project (which will be some java board game we'll have to to in 5-people teams). Something else: i recently finished reading 'Heroes Die' from Matthew Woodring Stover, and can really only recommend reading it to any fantasy or sci-fi fan. Well worth your time, especially if you are tired of all the classical fantasy with their common 'perfect good vs. perfect evil' plots. Right now i'm reading a true classic: Bram Stoker's Dracula :) Unfortunately i have seen so many movie-adaptions of it that i know the plot quite well, but it's still a good read, and just one of the books you have to have read at least once in your life if you're a fantasy or horror fan. Today i've also finally ordered Neuromancer. I have the e-book sitting on my harddrive for 2 years and started reading it 3 times, and despite i really love the beginning i'm always unable to keep reading it from the screen after a few days. It's just not the same as a real book, and i can't await holding it in printed-paper form in my hands :) |
| Friday, 08/09/03 |
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It's too hot. Way too hot. In the last couple of days the temperature here was about 35°C during most of the day and weather forecast says there's no change in sight. TV news just said that today was the hottest day in germany since the beginning of record keeping! I really hope this heatwave will end soon...one just can't do anything else then hanging around all day when it's so hot. I'm just glad i have holidays and don't need to leave the house during day :) Oh yeah, and before i forget: DEATH TO ALL MOSQUITOS!!! |
| Thursday, 07/31/03 |
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Ok, after all this page is supposed to be about programming, so after a long time i'll write something programming-related here, cool huh? :) Well i have to admit i'm kinda hopping on the bandwagon here, since i started, oh wonder, writing a software 3D engine(again, but this time i hope to complete it), which for some reason an awful lot of people seem to do currently (that is, since the publishing of Tricks 2 :) ) But unlike Mr. LaMothe i'll write the engine in a nice and clean true C++ way (which means OOP, STL, namespaces, templates, singletons etc.) and not in his 'C/C++' style that is basically C. I mean, he writes that this style is easier to grasp, but IMHO this is not true at all. Take for example vector addition..after declaring 3 vectors u, v and w he uses a global function VECTOR3D_add(&u,&v,&w); while in nice OOP code with custom operators this becomes w=u+v; i just can't see where that code is harder to grasp or in any way inferior to his C stlye. Especially since he keeps repeating that the book is for intermediate to advanced readers, there should be no problem with something as simple as custom operators. But other then that i like the book so far, and i prefer writing my own code from the theory in the book over just copying his code anyway. I also implemented the whole matrix-vector part a bit different, since i prefer the standard-mathematical Matrix*Vector multiplication instead of his Vector*Matrix style. This means i have to transpose most matrices and revert the multiplication order when concatenating matrices, but after 2 semesters linear algebra with always applying the matrix as an operator to the vector this just seems more natural to me. Anyway, i brushed up and partially re-coded my old vector/matrix/plane/quaternion classes (when i first wrote them i didn't care about such things as const-correctness, exception-safety etc. but this has changed now :) ) and got DDraw to work again (i think it's been two years since i last used it) (yep, it's gonna be a software engine, but somehow you need to get access to the video-memory, and GDI is just too slow). I also coded a nice framework, so that it is for example possible to exchange the whole hardware-communication part by coding a new class and changing a single line in the existing code, since i might want to try the speed of framebuffer-access with D3DX instead of DDraw later on. All in all i wrote about 3000 lines so far(including comments that produce a really nice documentation including UML diagrams and callgraphs with doxygen) that produce no visible output whatsoever now :) So i can't show any screenshots now, but they will follow as soon as i have implemented the poly rasterizer :) |
| Saturday, 07/19/03 |
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It is done! Today was the last exam, and now i've got holidays! Woohoo :) |
| Saturday, 07/12/03 |
| Well, the first exams are over, only one more on next saturday and then holidays! I can't await it :) |
| Sunday, 07/06/03 |
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And once again nothing new for the page.. Unfortunately it's final exam time, and thursday will be linear algebra exam, so i'm currently learning my eigenvalues and hyperplanes... :) But only two more weeks, then it's over and i'll have ~3 months holidays! hooray! :) |
| Tuesday, 06/24/03 |
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Wow! My new computer was delivered yesterday..damn it rocks :) All those programs that needed a whole minute to start up on my old comp now are there in 2 secs, i don't get constant disc full and not enough RAM errors anymore...it's just cool :) I didn't play any games or stuff yet, so i'll yet have to see the features of the Radeon, but the sound is just awesome! A subwoofer really make such a difference...it's a whole new feeling of listening to music! And i can't await to watch a DVD and experience the THX sound :) Well i'm happy :) |
| Friday, 06/20/03 |
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Yay for Dell..they already shipped my new computer...problem now is that UPS is really slow and it will be Monday before i'll get it..oh well just 2 more days :) Today we made a trip to the Castles Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau and i took my sister's digicam with me and made a couple photos...you can view them here: The Bavarian King's Castles |
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And again quite some time since the last update..and again i have coded nothing worth putting up here...mainly MIPS assembler progs and cheap java stuff for uni :) But i've been reading up a bit on some advanced C++ concepts, that i'll finally be able to implement once i can use VS.Net and it's neatly standard-compliant C++ compiler :) Also, since we had to use javadoc for our uni-assignments and i really liked the idea of having nice code documentation in html format, i decided to change my C++ commenting style too. I've decided to use Doxygen, and so far i really like it. With the dot tool it even generates images with class hierarchies and file-inclusion graphs! And i have finally ordered my new computer last week..today the order confirmation from Dell came, and the pc is supposed to be finished and scheduled for shipping next monday..and i can't await it :) Finally a stable OS, finally being able to play a decent game again, finally being able to install VS.Net, finally being able to play around with vertex- and pixelshaders, finally not having to constantly worry about a full disk and no free RAM anymore, finally... :) Here is a little comparison of my old and my new comp ( hey, this is my homepage, i can brag here as much as i want :) )
nice, eh? :)) ah well, only one more week to wait... And now i'm also a member of the IGDA! The best with this is, that membership is only 35$ (-10% from gamedev.net :) ) for me and includes the GDmag subscription, while the subscription alone would cost me 99$ a year! Wow, that was the longest news-item ever on my homepage, so i better stop now :) |
| Wednesday, 06/04/03 |
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Well yesterday VisualStudio .Net 2003 arrived....and i really have to say that Microsoft rocks! When i got my VisualStudio 5 Student Version 5 or 6 years ago i paid 125$ and got the bare minimum of VisualStudio 97, just three discs with Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual J++. But now my Academic version of VS .Net 2003 is the full VS .Net 2003 Pro package! Complete with the MSDN on multiple discs, printed docs (even a couple huge posters with listings of all namespaces and classes of .Net and such stuff) and student tools, and that for only 100$ instead of the 1200$ it costs for non-students! And i even got the english version and not the weird translated one again :) Now the only problem is that my computer is far from fulfilling the requirements to run it, but if all goes well i'll get my new pc next week, so i can look forward to install it and code C++ in the new IDE and with the new ( and way better ) compiler :) Hehe and when i'll have m new pc i'll finally be able to run Eclipse (my Java IDE of choice) without waiting two minutes for it to start and then not be able to run anything else cause it's completely clogging up my system :) |
| Thursday, 05/29/03 |
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Ah well today i spent quite some time in front of the keyboard...i made a list with the books i recently read, and thought that since people coming to my page are mostly programmer-types and programmers usually are sci-fi/fantasy fans like me, i could as well make the list a bit fancier and put it up here. They are all books i enjoyed a lot when i read them, thus they are well worth checking out! There are also some less known books on my list i hope i can make a bit more popular with it, since they definitely deserve it :) Follow this link if you are interested: my book recommendation page. And wow, sorting trough all those books and reading the synopses brought back memories...i almost wish i had the time to read them all again :) |
| Tuesday, 05/27/03 |
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My webhost updated it's service...now i have 50MB more webspace and 12 instead of 4GB monthly bandwidth! I'm only using a fraction of even the 4GB right now, but it's still cool... :) |
| Saturday, 05/24/03 |
| Well what can i say...the Matrix really ruled!...best action-scenes ever! Really cool...especially the highway-scene..wow. It just left too much open and the ending was too abrupt...now i need to wait another couple months till part 3 comes out and we can see how the story ends :) |
| Friday, 05/23/03 |
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After a long time i added something to the C++ Tips & Tricks page and made it easier to navigate. And only 3 more hours until i'll finally see Reloaded! Yay! :) |
| Thursday, 05/22/03 |
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Well obviously i underestimated the number of people who want to see the Matrix in english...the whole movie theatre is booked out already :( But at least we now got reservations for tomorrow evening, so it's only 24 hours more till i'll finally see Reloaded |
| Wednesday, 05/21/03 |
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Yay only 20 minutes till the 22nd - the day on which The Matrix finally hits germany!!! And only 19 hours and 35 more minutes until i'll be watching it!!! woohooo! :) And we are going to the 'Cinema' here in munich, where they show the original movie, and not the stupidly cut, terribly translated and bad vocalized german version! Hehe i can't await it :) |
| Wednesday, 05/21/03 |
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And again something not programming related: One of my interesting 'hobbies' is Crystal Growing. I currently don't have any good looking self-grown crystals here, but i made a page about the topic anyway, showing the results of some interesting 'mistakes' one can make when growing them. See the page here...perhaps You might even get inspired to try it yourself :) |
| Sunday, 05/18/03 |
| I have collected quite a number of funny pics from the web over time and decided to put them online...you can browse them here |
| Saturday, 05/17/03 |
| Wow, long time without an update...and i don't have anything new really...so i'll just take this opportunity to say: Bah, germany sucks! All over the world the Matrix is in the cinemas since 2 days, but here we need to wait another week for no apparent reason :( I want to see Reloaded NOW! :) |
| Sunday, 04/20/03 |
Happy Easter everyone!!!
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| Wednesday, 04/16/03 |
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And another year went by...since two days i'm 21. And life's really looking good: uni courses are so easy currently that i'm only going in for maths two times a week and learn the rest at home, which leaves me enough time to enjoy the good weather outside (i finally began reading lord of the rings :) ) and code some stuff (soon more about it). Then i finally decided to buy a new computer very soon (i'm running a 500MHz machine with Voodoo3 since 4 years....)...i can't wait to finally see pixel and vertex shaders in live-action on a Radeon9800 :). And since the new pc will come with WinXP i'll finally be able to upgrade from my old Visual Studio 5...and it's a very nice coincidence that VisualStudio .Net 2003 comes out here in a month! Most people have to pay 1200 euro for this piece of development-goodness(finally partial template specialization in C++!), but me being a student will get the Pro version for only 100 euro :) so it's really good times to come :) |
| Tuesday, 04/08/03 |
| Just to let all europeans know: Tomorrow it's Digital Download Day Europe! According to a TV show just aired here if you sign up there and live in germany, france, the UK, spain, the netherlands or italy you have one week to download 300 mp3s FREE and LEGAL, so use the opportunity! :) |
| Monday, 04/07/03 |
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Argh, i can't believe those 2 months of holidays are already over. Tomorrow uni starts again. But at least this is gonna be a relaxing semester with only 3 courses (6 hours per week each): Linear Algebra II, Informatics II (Introduction to OOP and Java) and Technical Foundations of Informatics, which is all gonna be really easy i hope :) Not all times are settled yet, but if i'm lucky i get to have each monday free...yay :) And in only 3 months i'll have holidays again, so it's not entirely bad, although it still sucks how fast the past 2 months went by :) P.S: Thank You to all the people who mail me (or post in the guestbook) with comments on the page, i really appreciate it! |
| Thursday, 03/20/03 |
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sorry again for not updating this more often, but we have finally spring now and good weather, so.... :) But i've continued learning java and begin to loose the aversion i had earlier more and more since the language has some really nice features. I especially like the whole thing with Interfaces..pretty nice. I only miss C++'s multiple inheritance and templates and pointers ;) I've also been playing the ultimate RPG, Progress Quest a bit (definately worth a visit). I was pretty intrigued by the Hall of infamy (list of cheaters) and how people got there, so i tried around a bit myself...and was actually able to make the first two level 99 characters on the Oobag realm (look here: My characters are Burning_Ice, Burning_Ice2 and wohoo) Hehe i 'hacked' Progressquest :) But don't ask me how i did it, since i'm a nice person and already mailed Grumdig how my little exploit works and how he can prevent it in future versions of the game. 
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| Wednesday, 03/05/03 |
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Hmm somehow i can never stay with one project alone...i'm coding the raytracer, the ASM/VM and the 3d engine all parallel...ah well everyday something different :) And now i started with Java. Since we'll start using it in Uni in a month i took a look at it and must say it's better then i thought...i basically could start writing in C++ and got no syntax errors..really nice how similar Java and C++ Syntax are. I already made a small fire applet...look here :) I'm using Eclipse now, which is a really cool IDE to develop in java with, with plugins available for everything you can think of. Really recommendable. And yesterday i was looking trough a 5+ years old stack of diskettes...and actually found a working binary of my first 'game' ever...the ultimate Böla Race. Wow, i wrote this 6 years ago in good old Turbo Pascal...and this game could easily win the award for 'worst game ever'...yippie :) |
| Wednesday, 02/26/03 |
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Since a few hours Hugi #26 is out! Not many coding articles this time, but Hugi is still my favorite diskmag, get it here. And since my page is programming related i don't think many computer-illiterate AOL users come here, but if you are using AOL anyway: sorry, but someone's got your credit card number now! Read more about the bigget security disaster in ISP history and one more reason to leave AOL here. |
| Monday, 02/24/03 |
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Wow what an honor...in a past news item i have mentioned reading the book Decipher from Stel Pavlou, and the author himself has somehow found this site and posted in my guestbook! Thanks again Stel, and yes, Decipher was the best books i've read in a while and i'm really impressed by all the scientific facts and details in the book..must have been a hell of a lot of work researching so much stuff ( and a 6 page bibliography for a novel IS impressive! :) ). Anyway, i can only recommend this book! |
| Thursday, 02/12/03 |
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Hmm winter has really kicked in now, we have snow and below-zero degrees again since a week and of course i catched a cold...can't wait for it to go away so i can breathe trough my nose again :) I've long wanted to create my own little scripting language and yesterday i've finally begun work on it. I want it to be pretty dynamic and powerful so the first thing i'll do is build a decent virtual machine for it to run on. And since i don't want an interpreter but a compiled language i'll first design my own assembly language and write an seembler for it that produces bytecode that can be run efficiently on the VM. For the asm language i'm not going the easy way with a (too) simple stack machine, but i want power and speed so i'm orienting myself a bit on x86 assembly, but an emulator would be uneffective, so i'll allow for direct operations on the memory without registers or temporary variables. I think this is the most efficient way to do it, but the drawback is that it's trickier to write and will produce bigger bytecode ( for example in x86 assembly an instruction that pushes a register onto the stack is just one byte in size since there is a an extra opcode for every register push; but the same will be 5 bytes in my bytecode since i need one byte for the push opcode and 4 for the address which contents are to be pushed on the stack ) but i hope that won't be too bad later on. I just finished writing EBNF specifications for the assembly language and will now begin writing the assembler and then the virtual machine. If i ever finish this i'll put it on the site and perhaps even write a tutorial on it since i was (so far) unable to find a good tutorial on this topic myself. |
| Friday, 02/07/03 |
| Woohoo all exams done, the semester is over and now i have 2 months holidays!!! Life's good :) |
| Sunday, 02/02/03 |
| And the first exam is done. Was pretty easy...just some series convergency and function derivation stuff. Now just comp sci and linear algebra exams next week and then finally holidays :) |
| Friday, 01/24/03 |
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I wrote some poetry again :) Read it here: Rulers Of The Wood and The Eternal Cycle |
| Sunday, 01/26/03 |
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Well the end is near! The end of the semester at least :) Only two more weeks to go, then 8 weeks holidays. Problem is that next saturday will be the first of my three final exams. Saturday it'll be our analysis (i guess it's calculus in english) exam...such beautiful topics as convergency (Cauchy series anyone?), differential equations and more...ah well i don't think it'll be too hard, but come on...saturday morning is just not the time a sane person wants to write a math exam at :) Something different: since i'm out of school and don't have to read that shit that is considered good poetry by our teachers anymore, i'm getting more and more into american and english poetry of the 19th and beginning 20th century. I read some e. e. cummings, and although i don't have the slightest idea what he's trying to say his poems are somehow cool :) Universe next door is especially fascinating. For something really strange: visit this page and listen to cummings himself reading 'why must itself up every of a park'.... But if poems are understandable i like em more, so i recently read some stuff from Lord Byron. I really like his work, seeing as he has a style similar to Poe. Anyway, inspired by this i tried my own poetic hand once again and you can read the results here: Never To Forget You and Timidity. Hope you like em :) I also thought about submitting something to Passions to get some feedback, but of course they have to update their database right now, and are taking no new submissions for a while. So, enough for now, have a nice weekend everyone! |
| Friday, 01/17/03 |
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I just had the idea to whip up a little php page to show all the quotes from which a randomly chosen one is displayed above the news together on one page, so go here to read them. I also added a page with some of my favourite poems here |
| Tuesday, 01/14/03 |
As you can see on the image i took all my l33t obfuscating skillz to make the sml bf interpreter something 'special' :) Code is on the docs page |
| Monday, 01/13/03 |
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Well our homework in computer science is a bit too easy/dull so i decided to write something 'useful' in SML: a BrainFuck interpreter! (Actually i stole the idea from a friend who did the same thing today, but it was kinda slow, so i decided to write my own one..and it's a couple thousand times faster hehe).
I admit i 'cheated' a bit on it since i used mainly SMLs features for imperative programming and no functional concepts, but else it's just too slow and unefficient, so... :) ) Anyway, check it out on the documents page! |
| Tuesday, 01/07/03 |
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Well the holidays are over, today uni started again, and today we finally have snow....it's really dumb how we had 12°C at christmas and now that holidays are over and i have to get out every morning again the streets are full of ice and snow. But at least it's looking 'winterly' outside now, and it isn't too cold (only -5°C) so it's cool. And of course the best thing of all is, tomorrow in one month the semester will already be over....only 19 more times to go and then 2 months holidays. yay :) Unfortunately i didn't code anything at all in the christmas holidays and this month will be full of homework and learning for exams, but eventually i will find some time to continue all that stuff i began to write :) And on another note, if you're looking for a good book to read, check out Decipher from Stel Pavlou. I'm half way trough it and i'm loving it..a good mix between sci-fi, science-thriller and more. Short Synopsis from the back of the book: "Ten thousand years before Christ, there was the Flood... Now, twelve thousand years later, a confluence of events affecting both the Sun and the Earth point towards repeat performance. A small group of scientists must decipher an unknown language discovered in Antarctica to make sense of the sudden awakening of ancient sites if humanity - and it's home - is to survive the ultimate catastrophe. They have one week left..." If you ever wanted to read a book where modern and hypothetical science ( gravity waves, light computers etc. ) meets myth ( Atlantis, Pyramids etc. ) then get this book! :) |
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