Maróy Ákos

A project I’m doing in my spare time, called Corpora has won the opportunity last week to appear at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale in the Hungarian Pavilion.

Very thrilled and excited to show our project at such a prestigious venue.

The project is interesting from an architectural standpoint, but is also very interesting technologically, as it involves cellular automaton models, Zigbee wireless mesh-networked sensor motes, Augmented Reality viewports among other things.

I also held a presentation on the Zigbee motes used in this project at the Budapest New Tech Meetup this January.

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Yesterday I had the rare opportunity to have dinner with Craig Larman and Bas Vodde at Kőleves here in Budapest - two demi-gods of Agile Development & Scrum. I’ve been a long time fan of Craig’s books, and have several editions of his Applying UML and Patterns title.

It was very exciting to speak with these guys and to absorb the knowledge and wisdom they hold. Craig’s repeated reference to the 14 principles of “The Toyota Way” really reminded me of Miyamoto Musashi’s The Book of 5 Rings.

“I’m not worthy” is all I can mutter

(And thanks to Stefan for inviting me in the first place)

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After having trouble setting up my selection of CH joysticks to work with X-Plane on my Gentoo Linux based laptop, I did some research. It seems that the issue is a well known one: on 64 bit Linux systems, joystick control events are not passed through to 32 bit applications. And X-Plane is such - a closed source application, available in 32 bit binaries only.

Despite the issue being raised earlier on the linux-kernel list, this was not yet fixed in the kernel. So I posted a patch again, hoping for the best.

Let’s see how the open source movement works in this case.

But then again, the issue wouldn’t come up at all if one could get X-Plane compiled for 64-bit systems, or better yet, re-compile X-Plane on his own for whatever platform he wants to.

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The December Budapest New Technology Meetup went on fine yesterday. We had a nice series of presentations, ranging from an android robot to flash streaming server. Moreover, our very own Gergely Kis also had a presentation on the Google Android project.

Now we only have to wait until January for the next Meetup.

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