Category: Technical

I was reading some news items about Windows Live, so I decided to see what the whole deal was. This blog entry is just to test whether the Windows Live writer works or not 😉 UI wise, I think all the Live apps look good. Mail, Messenger, Writer, Photos etc. Most of them have the…

In VTK Designer 2, one can design custom forms in QtDesigner and import it into VTK Designer. They can then script the form and customize the UI and functionality. But what if you dont have QtDesigner? You might say, since Qt is open source you can download a copy of it and use it. But…

VTK Designer 2 is finally out. Source code and binaries for Windows and Linux is now publicly available from http://www.vcreatelogic.com/oss/vtkdesigner. Powered by ScribeFire.

We have un-officially released VTK Designer 2. Hopefully tomorrow we should be able to make announcements in the website itself. For the curious, you can VTK Designer 2 Source: Download the source code from http://www.vcreatelogic.com/oss/vtkdesigner/download/VTKDesigner2-Source.zip. Unzip the package and follow the instructions specified in BuildInstructions.txt to compile VTK Designer for your platform. The source code…

Binaries for VTK Designer 2 are ready. Powered by ScribeFire.

VTK Designer 2 will be released today or tomorrow. We had to remove quite a big chunck of code that was experimental. For example the OpenHaptics plugin, Reporting Framework, Volume Rendering Support etc.. have all been removed. To give some perspective about 80000 (of the 150000+) lines of code will not make it to the…

On many of the projects that I have recently worked on, people have told me to, “Think outside of the box.” First of all, I’d like to know what box they are referring to. Second, why do they assume I’m inside of a box? Third, if I am inside a box how did I get…

Wont write much, the picture says it all… Download RK_Launcher from here: http://home.cogeco.ca/~raduking Powered by ScribeFire.

I just installed the ScribeFire plugin for Firefox. It is a pretty cool plugin to do some quick blogging. Shown in the screenshot below is me writing this blog in ScribeFire. Check it out. It is really cool. http://www.scribefire.com/getting-started/ Powered by ScribeFire.

The first list of talks is out. One of my talks have gotten accepted in it. Yay !. I would be giving a talk on “Component Software Design/Development”. While the topic string looks loaded ;), I would mostly be talking about GCF. This would be my first presentation on GCF. I noticed quite a few…

The release candidate (build 660) of VTK Designer 2 is out. With this we have incorporated the suggestions received during the betas. Plus, standard things like undo/redo, recent files, panels etc work. Plus, with this RC we have included a draft copy of the user manual, so users must be now able to get started…

I read this really interesting article on Software Engineering.

I am pleasently surprised by the feedback I have been getting on the second beta of VTK Designer 2. The feedback is pushing the product to better usability and adoption. Meanwhile we are gearing up our efforts for a new website for VTK Designer 2. Hope everything will converge by the end of this month…

One of the users of VTK Designer, today wrote to me an email that he used VTK Designer to provide some basic training on OpenGL and VTK. He even sent me some pics.. This intro was given as a part of FOSS Teachers Training Program at GEC, Chandkheda. It is really nice to see so…

The second beta release of VTK Designer for Windows (Build 609) is now available. We have announced the availability of the beta on our website also.