Did you ever come across the finding that even if the order of letters in words is changed just slightly you will most likely be able to read the text without much problems? I think that this is so interesting that I invested a considerable amount of time writing a software that reads a text, changes the words and outputs the result. Easier said than done, this post tries to explain what I’ve been working on.

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Quite some years after the iPhone was introduced it still seems that everybody wants to have one to send email messages. But what if you just can’t afford it? In this short post I would like to show how to setup your email client so it looks like you were sending these messages from your shiny iPhone. It’s easy, quick and fun.

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Just recently I wanted to have a simple HTML select element where the user should be able to click on a specific option to download a certain file. I came up with a solution that contains some JavaScript and straight forward HTML markup.

The HTML markup consists of a simple HTML select element that triggers a certain JavaScript function via the onChange hook. The JavaScript function in turn just sets the window.location to the given file and so the browser starts downloading.

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Apple’s Xcode comes with a neat profiling tool called CPU Sampler. It helps you identifying time consuming code blocks in your software and is really handy if you need to optimize for optimal performance.

Just recently I tried rewriting OpenGL’s routines that handle matrix calculations as part of a lecture at the university. Pretty soon I came to the conclusion, that I had to optimize my code if I wanted to compete with the implementation provided by OpenGL.

This post presents at quick look at CPU Sampler which helped me making well-founded decisions resulting in a faster implementation.

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