Osama’s Blog

I’m addicted to ProjectEuler.net … you solve math problems by any means possible, then you will have access to the problem’s forum thread where users share insight on the problems and some even post code (some are Assembly Language wizards that solve a complicated problem in just a few CPU instructions).

The site describes itself as:

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.

I use several tools to solve the problem

• Pen and Paper
• My Brain
• Research problem using Google
• Maple
• Delphi
• Perl
• Erlang
• … more?

 Here’s a nice link….

Serge?s Blog » Blog Archive » The Evolution of a Programmer

When a user interface is so intuitive, that even a one-year-old can use it.

PhillRyu.com – The Power of Good UI Design

(yes, this is about the iphone)

This is interesting… look at it … the toolbox looks almost exactly like the one in  CS3.

How Adobe’s Photoshop Was Born | SiliconUser

From the dumbest piece of software in the last post, we go to the coolest … Microsoft should have done this in windows …

In windows there’s no easy way to see the size of a folder… (in Linux I would du it), but even in the detailed view in windows explorer it only shows the sizes of files, leaving the size column empty for folders, here’s the solution: Folder Size for Windows Explorer .

The stupidest piece of software ever… I’m only linking to it to decrease its’ Google pagerank : 3D Mailbox.

Amateurs do incredible things, I think that people who don’t know what they’re doing are better innovators, they don’t have the baggage of knowing the official way to do it.

When Linus Torvalds started working on Linux, he was a student who knew nothing about operating systems.

When Sergey Brin and Larry Page started Google, they created a computer cluster like no other, based on cheap PC motherboards, and built expecting and embracing hardware failure.

 Have a look at this new technology, it allows to model faces in 3d from a single (2d) image.

Amazing 3D rendering technology

I just posted a few photos from this trip on flickr…

still sorting and tagging them…