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March 2009 - Posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:06 AM

14 Things Every Software Engineer Should Know

In no particular order - Common Design Patterns – Design patterns are tools to let us solve common problems.  Knowing your design patterns can make the solution to a problem easy. At Least One Assembly Language – One can program quite well without
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:32 PM

Face Detection with dotImage and OpenCV

We had a question in our forums about face detection via OpenCV .  I had looked at OpenCV a few weeks ago and had a small amount of time to burn, so I decided that this would be a fun project to tackle.  The API for OpenCV is sane and their
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:42 AM

Make It Feel Like Syntax

I chose my career wisely.  I can tell because at least once a week I run across a nifty small thing that makes programming feel new again.  It’s not that I’m a sucker for novelty, it’s more that when I see something particular clever that makes
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Friday, March 13, 2009 12:05 PM

Fun With Math in 3D

This post is about the relative efficiencies of two different approaches to calculating triangle area in three dimensions. Atalasoft has an add-on that can decode and rasterize DWG CAD files.  I’ve been doing some playing with the underlying data
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