Here's a quick pro tip for (more) efficiently skipping frames while reading video input in OpenCV: OpenCV comes with a grab that does almost exactly that:
capture.grab() # go the next frame, but don't waste time reading it So you can even write a very short little function ...... Read more
A short intro on how to clip object in KineticJS, the JavaScript animation library. You'll see it in action in my soon-to-be-released Chinese-learning game PinyinMaster!
One feature that is curiously lacking from the KineticJS JavaScript animation library is the ability to clip or mask shapes. For this reason, ...... Read more
I don't always try to improve the SEO of the IronZebra blog, but when I do, I make it quick and I make it count. - Most Interesting Man In The World
That's ...... Read more
Two weeks ago, we soft-launched a project I've been developing, called progr.es. A few days later, the client I've been developing progr.es for posted a thread on reddit startups that generated quite a lot of discussion.
The feedback (and stress-testing!) we received from that has been invaluable, and ...... Read more
For most of last week, I did not have a DSL Internet connection at all due to a broken physical line to the network. After the network errors were fixed I switched to a new ISP account, and all was well. Or so I thought.
My connections ...... Read more
I recently wrote a short two-part series of posts for the progr.es blog on how I made some of our infrastructure decisions and overcame some of the trickier technical challenges in building the progr.es real-time process management web-application.
The first post is titled progr.es Behind the ...... Read more
Jade is a great template engine built for Node.js, and I recently had the pleasure of using it in a Node.js project. The built-in Django templating engine and Jinja2 have always served me well when it comes to templates for Django and Flask, respectively, but I quickly fell ...... Read more
