The Hortus Sanitatis (Latin for The Garden of Health) is an encyclopedia about the natural world that was first published in Mainz, Germany in 1491. It features 530 chapters on plants, 164 chapters on land animals, 122 chapters on flying … Read more
BlazingMQ is a distributed message queueing platform with focus on efficiency, reliability and a rich feature set for modern day workflows. Carefully architected and written in C++ from the ground up with no dependency on any external framework, BlazingMQ provides … Read more
Daniel Kao @diplateevo @getgrav Just might be one of the biggest game changers in web CMSs. Ryan Little @ryantereu Only just began using @getgrav as a cms, but their documentation alone is swoon-worthy: friendly, thorough, well-designed. Dayle Rees @daylerees I’ve … Read more
The language of CSS has had an explosion of new features and improvements in the last few years. As a result, feature parity between browsers is at an all-time high, and efforts are being made to continue releasing features consistently and synchronously … Read more
Image processing plays a crucial role in numerous fields, ranging from computer vision and medical imaging to surveillance systems and photography. The implementation of image processing algorithms in programming languages like C has become increasingly important due to the need … Read more
In the mid-twentieth century, modern art and design represented the liberalism, individualism, dynamic activity, and creative risk possible in a free society. Jackson Pollock’s gestural style, for instance, drew an effective counterpoint to Nazi, and then Soviet, oppression. Modernism, in … Read more
If you take someone with intermediate knowledge of computing in the right areas, and ask them how an x86 machine boots, they’ll probably start telling you about how the CPU first comes up in real mode and starts executing code … Read more
Before I started doing research for Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) group at FEE CTU, I saw SAT solvers as academically interesting but didn’t think that they have many practical uses outside of other academic applications. After spending ~1.5 years working … Read more
In tough economic times, everyone looks for ways to lower costs without impacting productivity (heck, if we’re doing wish lists, let’s improve productivity, too). And this is one of those times, with many companies making the hard decision to lay … Read more
There is little doubt that many ancient civilizations had good navigational and sailing skills given the long history of the sea. Ancient civilizations built several maritime routes and traded goods like spices, gold, silk, and many other commodities after realizing … Read more