In Traction - Latest Comments

Re: OneNote: a hidden Microsoft Office gem

Traveller_Adventure — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:05:24 -0000

What a useful post here. Very informative for me..TQ friends...

Cheers,
porcelain coffee mugs
(Coffee Mug Online Shop: The Best Coffee Mug Store)

Re: Small update on face detection post

housedesign — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:27:49 -0000

Nice post..

Re: How to efficiently perform a literature review

craigs1 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:17:19 -0000

Good read. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

Re: Small update on face detection post

craigs1 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:16:22 -0000

Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

gabox — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:15:26 -0000

hi i want to put the window's webcam in other program both under python, but i dont how to do it, the project is a program with bottons and they controll a robot and the robot get the webcam, by the way im using linux mint 6

Re: How to efficiently perform a literature review

craigs2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:09:03 -0000

Well done. I hope others enjoyed this as much as I did.

Re: Small update on face detection post

craigs2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:07:44 -0000

Nice post there. Raised a few things I hadn't thought about before. Thx.

Re: AVI 2008

craigs2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:05:42 -0000

Well done. I hope others enjoyed this as much as I did.

Re: blog@CACM

Holsters Guy — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:22:41 -0000

When i first read that i thought he said he didnt know he had a PHD, haha thanks for the read.

Re: AVI 2008

tutor1 — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:04:59 -0000

Probably one of the hardest things anyone can do is try and learn something new. Congrats to anyone who tries.

Re: New homepage

jozilla — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:28:42 -0000

Thanks Ruben!

It's the first time someone mentions that it looks like Facebook, although the header is indeed quite similar :-) I'm not an expert in web design, but it will do for now. The design can also easily be changed with a few touches of CSS.

I agree that everyone's needs are different, so a perfect system that works for everyone will be hard to achieve. PmWiki serves my specific purpose very well.

Thanks for mentioning 'CMS Made Simple', never heard of that one before.

And I will try to blog some more again in the future. In the meanwhile, have a look at my Twitter page :-)

Re: New homepage

ruben — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:49:26 -0000

I couldn't agree more ! Great new homepage, although it looks a bit like facebook :-)

In my opinion there is no such thing as 'the ultimate CMS that fits all needs' (although there is a 'Drupal'-hype which makes you think it exists).
Anyway in the future maybe have a look at 'CMS Made Simple', it's just a great CMS which you can adapt using PHP and the lovely template language 'Smarty'. I think Drupal is a great CMS, but only fits best in medium-sized (preferably uni-language) websites. Personally I think Drupal isn't that great for the management of websites which have huge navigation structures...

Hope to see some new things soon!
Cheers
Ruben

Re: blog@CACM

jozilla — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:40:22 -0000

Indeed. Many HCI researchers also do research related to other fields (software engineering, machine learning, cognitive psychology, electronics, ...), although they don't necessarily contribute in those areas. I agree that there is no hard classification.

I think cross-pollination between fields is very valuable, and should be something to strive for. The example of Tim Berners-Lee inventing the Web (together with Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau by the way) is indeed an interesting one. It is often stated that many of the greatest inventions or insights were based on a mix between different disciplines. Another example I find interesting is the one of Alan Kay who pushed object-oriented programming forward and developed Smalltalk based on his insights from biology (complex organisms consists of billions of communicating cells or 'objects' in OOP terms). He also explored the work of Jean Piaget on constructionist learning in developing Smalltalk (and currently Squeak and Croquet) as an educational tool.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Daniel!

Re: blog@CACM

Daniel Lemire — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:03:57 -0000

I don't use the HCI methodology or publish in HCI venues, but I still do some HCI:

Collaborative OLAP with Tag Clouds: Web 2.0 OLAP Formalism and Experimental Evaluation
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2156

Tag-Cloud Drawing: Algorithms for Cloud Visualization
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DS/0703109

Anyhow, I don't believe in "having an area." People have skills and interests. We can cluster people... but there are no hard-code classification.

If people stuck to their areas, Tim Berner-Lee would have been stuck in Physics. Instead, he branched out into knowledge management and invented the Web.

That is maybe the lesson in the Patrick Baudisch quote.

Re: OneNote: a hidden Microsoft Office gem

jozilla — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:47:45 -0000

Indeed, it's strange that they don't promote it that much. I think OneNote is very useful for college students for example.

Re: OneNote: a hidden Microsoft Office gem

mmo — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:41:45 -0000

I was actually really impressed with Office Onenote as well. The first time I discovered it was when it came preinstalled on my Toshiba Laptop. I've never even heard of it before then. Why doesn't microsoft promote it at all? It's a GREAT piece of software imho.

Re: OneNote: a hidden Microsoft Office gem

5593907 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:07:32 -0000

I also started using onenote and have fallen in love with it. It's a huge timeasaver when you are grabbing data from a number of sources.

Re: New homepage

jozilla — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:21:03 -0000

Thanks! Of course "a whole day" was a bit exaggerated :-)

Re: New homepage

Wim Leers — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:20:23 -0000

Looks great Jo! :)

Always use the tool that fits the job best. Otherwise you end up with too much overhead. If your site needs less structure, then Drupal is indeed overkill.
"A whole day of editing content types" is an overstatement though. Maybe the first time it'll take that long, but after that, it's just a matter of a couple of minutes. Unless you want to do *very* advanced things of course.

Looking forward to your blog posts! :)

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

Simon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:26:28 -0000

Hello, Sir
I'm from Asia. I'm just starting to learn openCV.
Is there any opinion or advise from Sir as an expert to me to start learning opencv

Thank you very much.

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

jozilla — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:38:15 -0000

You need to have OpenCV installed. I guess that is the problem. I didn't try it on Windows yet since there's no D-BUS support, but in theory the face detection code should work.

I will probably release a first version of the code in the following weeks, so stay tuned!

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

Venkat — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:32:16 -0000

When I tried runing the above code in windows xp, encountered the following error.

D:\SW\CamFD>python test2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test2.py", line 2, in <module>
from CVtypes import cv
File "D:\SW\CamFD\CVtypes.py", line 42, in <module>
_cxDLL = cdll.cxcore100
File "C:\Python25\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 423, in __getattr__
dll = self._dlltype(name)
File "C:\Python25\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 348, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found

Any help regarding this will be great!

Re: OneNote: a hidden Microsoft Office gem

ffxi gil — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:02:16 -0000

It's a great idea,it runs on multiple platforms,I liked it very much.
Thanks

Re: OneNote: a hidden Microsoft Office gem

Maria — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:16:14 -0000

Probably late on the bandwagon but I had a "Wow. This is splendid!" reaction when I finally took the time to look at OneNote. For projects and tasks as well as research I've been juggling Google apps, as well as Outlook tasks and cal, good old .txt files with .LOG tags added to the start as well as Tab groupings and sub groupings in IE and Firefox and don’t forget regular folders.

OneNote has impressed me so far (compared to many other MS items that frustrate me so) and actually made me exited to really start using it! A rare thing for software… and after using it for a few days I feel my brain starting to unfrazzle if ever so slightly... and I'm baffled by why MS isn't pimping this rather solid app out.

Re: Small update on face detection post

Mauro — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:39:29 -0000

Where can I find the final script (with a status icon)?