Adding OpenCV libraries to a QT5 project in Ubuntu 20.04
I’ve recently gained interest in OpenCV. The problem with this is, that in most modern tutorials and walkthroughs it seems…
Optimising a scene for VR in Unreal Engine
Since I bought Oculus Quest, I felt that it lacked a proper Doom-like action shooter. I created a scene in the editor based on what I envisioned, but it was absolutely impossible to run on Oculus Quest. This article describes various tricks I have used to bring it to Quest without too much sacrifice.
Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Mega Review – A complex look at the state of Ubuntu
As somebody who’s always had Ubuntu in his daily life for the past 13 years, I sometimes find it hard…
Using vectors in place of hashtables – not as dumb as it seems
Vector can find elements in linear time, hashtable in constant time. That’s a pretty elementary part of computer science. However, better complexity does not always mean it’s faster.
Development for Oculus Quest is totally doable on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
So I was told that Oculus SDK is Windows only and Linux gets no love. Bullshit.
Super compact serialisation of C++ classes
How about defining the variable, initialising it and writing code for serialisation and deserialisation on a single line of code?
Generic self-registering factory – no more need to write factories
It’s somewhat annoying that a factory needs to depend on all classes that inherit from the common interface. This issue can be avoided using a self-registering factory.
Writing a JSON library in 2 hours in C++
C++ has a bad reputation for long times needed for development. However, as this task has shown, it does not deserve this reputation.
Serialisation of C++ classes with very little code
Serialisation into human readable formats tends to be a tedious task in programming languages without a lot of reflection. Here is a trick to make it far less repetitive in C++.
Embedded World Conference 2020
Embedded World is a conference and exposition held annually in Nuremberg, Germany in late February or early March. As its…