There are some things which I assume you know, and which are outside the scope of this tutorial. C This tutorial discusses code. Almost all of the code discussed is written in C. It is therefore safe to assume that if you don’t have a good working knowledge of C, then you’re likely to get…
An experiment in online authoring — my image programming tutorial
I don’t view myself as an author — I’m a programmer. I have however written a few articles and conference papers in my time. Here are the ones relevant to this topic area: September 2001: Australian Unix User’s Group Annual Conference Proceedings, Open Source PDF handling with Panda and PandaLex (not online at the moment,…
Sick Twinkle Tux
Herm. Twinkle Tux just had one of it’s transformers fail. I’m not sure if it was because of temperature (it was a warm day and I had left Twinkle Tux on all day as I got slack), or if it was just due to fail. Luckily I had a hot spare, so Twinkle Tux is…
Bio for AUUG 2004
Michael is an ordinary committee member on the AUUG board, as well as serving in a similar position with Linux Australia. He has been administering networks, systems, or writing code professionally since 1996, and currently works for a major Australian ISV. He is also extremely active in his local LUG.
Bio for OLS 2004
Michael Still released his first Open Source project in July 2000, and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a Tux out of fairy lights. Michael has focused recent efforts on janitorial patches to the kernel, as well as the mandocs build…
Bio for LCA 2004
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases based on Open Source for an Australian government department. He currently works for TOWER Software, who manufacture a world leading EDMS and Records Management package named TRIM. Michael is also the developer…
More graphics from the command line
IBM DeveloperWorks published a follow up article to the original article. [icbm: home]
Biographical information for Mikal
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases for an Australian government department. He currently works developing a commerical software product for a multinational company. Michael is also the developer a variety of open source projects, which are documented at…
Biographical information for Mikal
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases for an Australian government department. He currently works developing a commerical software product for a multinational company. Michael is also the developer a variety of open source projects, which are documented at…
The making of Twinkle Tux
As a hobbyist Linux kernel hacker, it struck me as obvious that the first thing I should make is a Tux made out of fairy lights. Tux is the official Linux mascot. There’s a page documenting how I made Twinkle Tux if you’re interested.