Persian Calendar

Recently, I've launched the beta version of www.persian-calendar.com. I'm still working on it and you will see a new feature every week. Please check it out and let me know about your ideas.

Google Goof in Picasa for Linux

I use Picasa 3 for linux on my Ubuntu. I pressed the Movie button moments ago and Picasa showed me a dialogue box which contains this message: "This feature is not supported for Windows 2000"!

My Little Hamsters

Ubuntu Pocket Guide

You can download the official Ubuntu Pocket Guide here.

AjaxContent Updated

AjaxContent class, second island of Ajax Islands project, updated!
Please check it out and take a look at new feature, loaderContainer.

I'm waiting to receive your feedback.

Jaunty Jackalope

In the past weekend I got noticed that Ubuntu version 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, released! I was too inpatient to wait to receive a copy of 9.04 alternate ISO from my friend! So I decided to get ready to upgrade my 8.10 Ubuntu using update-manager -d command.
I started at night and it finished next day at noon.
I've used my new OS for 2 days and I have no problem except an small issue about which I've asked here.
The default theme and login windows has been changed, and many features have been added.

I guess I like it!

First Day in Khorasan Newspaper

Today was my first workday in Khorasan Newspaper, IT department.
Although I'm still waiting to receive admission from some universities in Sweden, but I decided to accept this vacancy and join Khorasan News.
They had prepared a workstation for me and I was supposed to install some extra software on it, but the computer has some performance problems and all the day me and my colleague, Mr. Khalili, were busy with replacing the machine with another brand new machine and installing applications on it.
Mr. Seyyed Nasser Beheshti - the IT department manager - joined us for lunch.

I guess I will learn many things in that institute and I hope to be a fruitful engineer over there.

Will Khatami Come Back?

Israel Uses White Phosphorus

Is MS Windows Accurate?

I'm reading the book Killer Game Programming in Java. The part which is explaining FPS and the issues in different operating systems is so amazing for me:

In Windows 95 and 98, the resolution is 55 ms, which means that repeated calls to currentTimeMillis( ) will only return different values roughly every 55 ms.In the animation loop, the overall effect of poor resolution causes the animation to run slower than intended and reduces the FPS. This is due to the timeDiff value, which will be set to 0 if the game update and rendering time is less than 55 ms. This causes the sleep time to be assigned the iteration period value, rather than a smaller amount, causing each iteration to sleep longer than necessary.To combat this, the minimum iteration period in GamePanel should be greater than 55 ms, indicating an upper limit of about 18 FPS. This frame rate is widely considered inadequate for games since the slow screen refresh appears as excessive flicker.On Windows 2000, NT, and XP, currentTimeMillis( ) has a resolution of 10 to 15 ms, making it possible to obtain 67 to 100 FPS. This is considered acceptable to good for games. The Mac OS X and Linux have timer resolutions of 1 ms, which is excellent.