The Sisyphean task of enabling Adobe Flash Player in a modern QT/Chromium based web browser
Prologue and motivation A part of my PhD. research deals with computer science as a source of innovative ways to…
(Sort of) Reflection in C++11
This is yet another trick to achieve reflection-like functionality before Reflection TS, this time needing only C++11. It’s based on using CRTP to fill the object with carefully chosen garbage before initialisation.
Reflection in C++14
How to write a template function that takes a class and executes type-dependent code on all its member variables, without requiring the class to specifically support it?
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.