Archive for February, 2010

Document image segmentation

26th February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

SMAP and TSMAP Segmentation Software
Document image segmentation
(tags: publishing algorithm)

One of my patents just got granted. "Image layout constraint generation"

24th February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

Patent US7668400
One of my patents just got granted. "Image layout constraint generation"
(tags: my ip patent)

Wired and Adobe's concept of what a digital version of Wired would look like on an iPad.

22nd February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

Wired Magazine goes Digital
Wired and Adobe's concept of what a digital version of Wired would look like on an iPad.
(tags: publishing design)

Part of the answer of how to remove objects from PDF.

16th February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

Re: [iText-questions] Finding / Removing Object from PDF
Part of the answer of how to remove objects from PDF.
(tags: programming)

Reddis and Akka — two interesting technologies for fast, light-weight distributed programming

15th February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

redis – Project Hosting on Google Code
A key-value database that claims to be very fast, and has bindings in many languages.
(tags: programming database scaling code)

Akka Project
Promising-looking framework for distributed programming in Java or Scala.
(tags: programming library java scala)

Decluttered API documentation for the iText PDF-manipulating Java library

15th February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

The iText library is a great resource for generating and manipulating PDF files. However its API is very complex and there is a notable lack of good online tutorial material. So you often must resort to plowing through the Javadoc-generated API documentation trying to figure out how to use the library.
Doing that, you [...]

Debunking Airnergy with some back-of-the-envelope calculations

14th February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

I have seen several reverences to Airnergy device by RCA that claims to recharge a battery by harvesting WiFi signals from the air.
That sounded a bit fishy to me. Let’s look at some numbers. First, how much power does a WiFi hotspot put out? According to moonblinkwifi.com a typical output is 200 mW.
Now [...]

50 Most Frequently Used Chinese Characters Presented in an Easy-to-Learn Way

13th February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

I created this list of Chinese characters for my own benefit in trying to learn them. I took Jun Da’s list of most frequently used characters and added a Google image search to provide some mnemonics. I added tone-color and exaggerated tone marks to the pinyin to help remind me of the the [...]

Scalate: a lightweight alternative to the Lift Scala web framework

3rd February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

Scalate
So far, Lift has been the only Scala-specific way of creating web applications. Scalate offers a lightweight alternative, though purists will shudder at how functionality and presentation are mixed willy-nilly.
(tags: programming)

links for 2010-02-01

1st February 2010 by eamonn No Comments

ePub Zen Garden
Nice example of how different CSS can be used to display ePub format nicely on the web. However this formatting does not seem to be respected by e-book readers (or at least not Adobe Digital Editions).
(tags: books publishing ebook literature css design)

San Francisco Planning Department : Citywide Zoning Map (Color)
This nicely designed [...]