Evernote is a greate online note taking service but the ads on their interface are bugging me because they take up space and create a distraction. The easiest way of getting rid of the add on the web interface is by adding the rule
*evernote.com##div[class*="SidebarInfoContainer"]
to the filters in the blacklist tab of adblock for chrome.
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Block the ads in evernote
06-Aug-10Crimson – A HTML5 Game
21-Jul-10Just finished coding a demo version remake of the game crimsonland from 10tons. It runs in the browser using the canvas element for graphics rendering, and some Js for the AI of the NPC’s. Checkout the dedicated page for the game here for a video and screenshots and play the game it self.
GMail as a TODO List
11-Jul-10By enabling some Gmail labs features and with the help of a label and filter you can use gmail’s web interface to manage your todo list. Here’s how:
First create a label called TODO by clicking settings then labels.
now create a filter by going to settings, filters that will match the word TODO it the subject. [...]
Abstract – Poker is a game of incomplete information which contains elements that hold a challange for artificial intelligence agents due to the nature of the game. These challanges are examined along with the methods used to solve these problems and different approaches for building a strong poker AI agent.
full article
The Design Of SPATE
22-Jun-10Abstract –
Computer based poker agents are a current hot research topic with many
universities producing publications and implementations about their advances
on the subject like the University of Alberta which produced Poki
and Vexbot. Also many hobbyist computer programmers
are implementing different agents and are constantly arguing on forums (such as http://www.pokerai.com)
which approach to implementing the perfect player is [...]
Abstract – This report will review four different artificial intelligence agents implemented to play the game of Texas Hold’em poker. Each agent applies a unique approach to the problems presented in creating a powerful poker player. The report will summarize the challenges in these approaches, the implementation and results of the agent if available. [...]
Installing the mysql gem under windows 7
17-May-10This one is a note so that I don’t have to struggle again:
The mysql client that ships with the latest mysql doesn’t play nice with the mysql gem. Even after gem install mysql you still get the annoying error that says
!!! The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please
install the mysql gem [...]
The keynote is here
Here’s my blabber:
Alexanders thoughts on patterns and how they come to form a living structure can be adapted to software to some extent. CA, not being an expert in the field even mentions mappings of what he calls “centers” to software objects. Objects in software can
be grouped in a few equivalence classes [...]
This one had me struggling for a day before I could actually get these guys to play nicely together. So here’s the setup and what I was trying to accomplish:
Standard maven 2 project layout
Spring MVC + IoC
Hibernate ORM
The project layout had the spring xml bean definitions under the WEB-INF directory. Which later proved to be [...]
Zoundry desktop publishing
15-Jan-10I’ll be trying out some desktop bloggers, and this is the first one from http://www.zoundryraven.com