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Visuell programmering i Processing

07/11/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

I dag holdt jeg en liten innledning og workshop om visuell programmering hos Norsk Telemuseum på Kjelsås. Jeg ønsket å vise fram programmeringsmiljøet rundt Processing og var også innom forskjellige emner jeg mener er viktig i dagens IT-landskap. I hovedsak orienterte dette seg om data og interfaces, eller data og dingser som jeg kalte det. En artikkel på det kontekstuelle kommer snart, men inntil videre kan du forsøke deg på oppgavesettet jeg lagde til den praktiske gjennomføringen av kurset. Jeg tror…

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Start with Ruby on Rails

24/10/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

Over the last two months I have been looking into a new way of doing web-development, and found an ingenious timesaver in the relatively new and popular framework Ruby on Rails. It all started as I wanted to add some back-end functionality to some of the technologies I have experimented with on lovholm.net/projects. Front-end development is exiting with new super-fast Javascript engines, expanded possibilities with the new CSS3 implementation, and easy-to-use frameworks such as Processing.js and jQuery. It is fun…

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20 years with the World Wide Web

18/10/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Earlier this year we passed the twenty year anniversary of the world wide web; on of the most prolific inventions of our contemporary time. From this milestone a historical line can be drawn as recent iterations of the web are disseminated to a wider array of users and new uses adapts the web as a platform. Not only is the web gaining larger audiences, it is also changing various platforms until recently not being thought of as web. The last five years…

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Thank you, Steve

06/10/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

As an unapologetic Apple fan I’m saddened to awaken to the news of Steve Jobs’ death. A great and innovative leader who I just knew through his texts, keynotes and products. He revolutionised the home computing with a ethnocentric focus on computers and found new use of technology in home computing with the introduction to the market of graphical user-interface, digitally created motion pictures, digital mobile music player, touch phone, and other big and small revolution that in the long…

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Useful Research Tools

01/10/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Writing a paper can be both joy and pain as the writing and editing sessions oscillate between a flow of excellent sentences conveying the propositional content in a clear and gracious way, and word-by-word slow typing sentences which does not feel elegant nor correct nor clear. The tools I have found, and today deeply appreciate, may not help you achieve a perfect state of mind with great ideas, nor a continuous flow of great words since that is something you…

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Leaving Edinburgh

13/09/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

I try to keep this blog semi-personal, by writing not so much through myself, but rather through writing about topics that interests me and on which I am working. This post has to count as an exception. The occasion is that Jules and I are soon bound for Norway after a whole year in Edinburgh. We actually moved here one year ago on this day. On Thursday we are leaving our lovely home for the last year, The Lodge House…

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labs.lovholm.net and lovholm projects

29/08/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Over the summer I have had the opportunity to experiment a bit with internet technology. As a part of keeping up to date with the standards and new technology I enjoy experimenting by making small mash-ups or just make a page testing out some of the skills I aspire to adapt. In May I made a projects site where the plan is to put online code from experiments, as a kind of sandbox for digital exploration. Some projects are already…

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Lær programmering med Processing: del 0

26/08/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

Nå er det lenge siden jeg har oppdatert bloggen med en post på norsk. Dette skyldes at jeg har arbeidet med en master på engelsk, og har ønsket å kun fokusere på et språk. Nå er oppgaven levert inn, og jeg kan endelig igjen bruke tid på å skrive uformelt og jovialt om ting der interessen komme og går. Det har vært en interessant prosess å skrive en større oppgave, men jeg har savnet å skunne skrive kortere artikler uten…

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A very very short 3D video

25/08/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

I’m now finished with my master thesis. Hurray. One of the things I have embarked on now that I have heaps of spare time is to learn more about 3D. The last few days I have played with shaders, material, primitives, polygons and other things I hitherto just vaguely knew. What has surprised me is how good things can look with by applying a few shaders, a few changes in the render engine settings and a little light. So far I…

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Open Data Phenomenon Trend Literature

19/07/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

On Tuesday it is just one month until the master thesis is to be handed in, hence the next weeks will be spent in front of the keyboard writing down findings from literature and interviews, editing the text, making connections and hopefully complete a text that can convey something interesting about what I perceive as an interesting trend in society. At the current stage the chapter headings are written in section and subsection markup, but these are not written in…

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