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Although I am gainfully employed at present, in the past I have made a good portion of my living in freelance work: websites, Facebook applications, database tools – even the odd carpentry project. The most essential skill involved in freelancing any field? Communication. But the next most important skill is the ability to accurately estimate...
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swiftcoding > Bidding a Freelance Contract
Posted 28 October 2011
swiftcoding > Logarithmic Spiral Distance Field
Posted 21 June 2010
I have been playing around with distance field rendering, inspired by some of Iñigo Quílez’s work. Along the way I needed to define analytic distance functions for a number of fairly esoteric geometric primitives, among them the...
swiftcoding > The price of progress
Posted 21 January 2010
I recently installed the beta of Microsoft Office 2010, and the first thing that struck me is how it performs noticeably worse on my 3.0 GHz quad-core AMD gaming rig, than Office ’98 performed on a now 12-year-old PowerBook G3, powered by a little 250 MHz PPC processor.
You can probably guess the next stage of this little anecdote… Office...
You can probably guess the next stage of this little anecdote… Office...
swiftcoding > RFC 1149 implemented
Posted 12 September 2009
This one goes out to all the networking students in the house:
Wired reports that a firm in South Africa successfully demonstrated that data transmission via flash drive equipped carrier pigeon is faster than their existing internet service...
Wired reports that a firm in South Africa successfully demonstrated that data transmission via flash drive equipped carrier pigeon is faster than their existing internet service...
swiftcoding > simplui 1.0.4 released
Posted 17 August 2009
New in this version:
- Support for multiple windows
- Java-style flow layout
- Full batching
- Numerous performance enhancements and bug fixes
- Minor theme tweaks
- setuptools/easy_install support
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