Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Soar Workshop 28

Friday, March 14th, 2008

The Center for Cognitive Architecture at the University of Michigan and Soar Technology, Inc. are pleased to announce the 28th Soar Workshop will be held Monday, May 5 through Wednesday, May 7, 2008, in Ann Arbor, MI beginning with a dinner on May 4. Greg Trafton (NRL) and Paul Benjamin (Pace University) are the invited speakers this year and will be talking on cognitive robotics.

Improving Code

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Bob pointed me at this interesting article offering general advice to programmers. It seems like testing is near the top of every one of these lists I look at. We have tests in the Soar project but there is much room for improvement.

Patching Mediawiki

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Parts of this are documented all over the Internet.

  1. Back up database, files
  2. Download patch to mediawiki root
  3. Inside mediawiki root: patch -p0 < patch-file
  4. Inside maintenance subdir: php update.php
  5. Check Special:Version

Upgrade guide, downloads.

Quote of the Day, OpenGL edition

Friday, February 29th, 2008

glBindBufferARB is the most thoroughly undocumented function on the Internet.”

Breathalyzer software analyzed

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Source code for a specific machine has finally been released. (Via)