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A difficult bug to trace..!

Posted: 18th June 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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During the last 2 weeks some major things happened in Greece including the second round of elections etc. I spent most of the time stuck and trying to trace a bug in RemoteVariables ( which I am currently developing ).. For testing the under construction library I wrote a test suite which performed 100 variable [...]

Old games , new games , tablets and Linux ramble..

Posted: 3rd June 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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I am a relatively young but both “old” gamer The first games I ever played on my first computer ( a Windows 95 PC ) where shareware , like SinkSub , Microman , Comet Busters , Zeek the Geek .. Needless to say while they were simple both from gameplay and graphics perspectives they were [...]

RemoteVariables!

Posted: 30th May 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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During the last weeks I finally found time to work on one of my older ideas ( 2 years old ) about a networking library that wouldn’t expose any network calls to the programmer..! From my experience writing small games and web server services network connectivity using sockets is very nice and efficient indeed , [...]

FOSSCOMM 2012

Posted: 14th May 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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Just came back from fosscomm 2012 xD Interesting topics , great people and lots of fun.. Our group fossaueb was especially adventurous with lots of happy accidents like some of the dudes missing the train stop at Serres , walking in circles trying to find the conference and other things.. Noteable sessions were the ones [...]

A T-ring and a Nikon-D7000 mounted on the telescope

Posted: 3rd May 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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Today I purchased a T-Adapter made from bresser along with a Nikon adapter for my telescope ( MEADE DS-2102MAK ) The T-Adapter was orignaly meant for the ETX-90/125 but fitted just fine and after some focusing it allowed the camera to produce magnificent quality pictures.. Unfortunately I ran the battery dry after an hour or [...]