HTTP/2, the first major change to HTTP in 16 years, has been finalized!

Today, the next major version of HTTP took a big step toward becoming a reality; it’s been officially finalized and now moves towards being fully standardized.

According to a blog by Mark Nottingham, the chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, the standard was completed today and is on its way to the RFC Editor to go through editorial processes before being published as a standard.

Read the whole article here.


Image Processing Tutorial for Beginners: Includes object detection, filtering, and more!

Perfect for the beginner, this demo illustrates simple object detection (segmentation, feature extraction), measurement, and filtering. Requires the Image Processing Toolbox (IPT) because it demonstrates some functions supplied by that toolbox, plus it uses the “coins” demo image supplied with that toolbox. If you have the IPT (you can check by typing ver on the command line), you should be able to run this demo code simply by copying and pasting this code into a new editor window, and then clicking the green “run” triangle on the toolbar.

First finds all the objects, then filters results to pick out objects of certain sizes. The basic concepts of thresholding, labeling, and regionprops are demonstrated with a simple example.

It’s a good tutorial for those users new to MATLAB’s image processing capabilities to learn on, before they go on to more sophisticated algorithms.





Ο αληθινός δάσκαλος!

Μια δασκάλα σε ένα συγκλονιστικό κείμενο γράφει:

«Είμαι ένας άνθρωπος που επέζησε από στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης. Τα μάτια μου είδαν πράγματα που δεν έπρεπε να τα δει μάτι ανθρώπου. Θαλάμους αερίων κατασκευασμένους από σπουδαίους μηχανικούς. Παιδιά δηλητηριασμένα από μορφωμένους γιατρούς. Γυναίκες και μωρά να πυροβολούνται και να σκοτώνονται από καθηγητές Γυμνασίου και Πανεπιστημίου. Γι’ αυτό είμαι επιφυλακτική απέναντι στη «μόρφωση».

Η παράκλησή μου είναι: Βοηθήστε τους μαθητές σας να είναι πρώτα άνθρωποι. Δεν πρέπει ποτέ οι προσπάθειές σας να παράγουν μορφωμένα τέρατα, ειδικευμένους ψυχοπαθείς, εκπαιδευμένους κακούργους. Η ανάγνωση και η γραφή, η ορθογραφία, η ιστορία, η αριθμητική είναι σημαντικά μόνο αν χρησιμεύουν για να γίνουν οι μαθητές μας άνθρωποι. Αλλιώς…»


SharePoint and the Internet of Things

Consider the conundrum of the artist who paints themselves into a picture. The artist is depicting a painting of him/herself painting a landscape. During painting the picture, the artist feels that there is something missing. So, the artist, in order to feel that he/she is a crucial part of the painting, paints a picture of an artist painting a picture of an artist painting a landscape. This repainting of the picture has an infinite number of artists within the picture, and yet, the artist is still outside of the picture.

Strange start to an article? Read on.


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