Author archives: Mike

Thomas added a spiffy new protocol to ctypes to allow for registering error-checking functions for a ctypes cFunction. It's a pretty simple protocol, just assign to the errcheck attribute of the cFunction a function with a signature like so:

def glCheckError( 
	result,
	function,
	cArguments,
	*args
):
	"""Return final result or raise error"""
	return result

With ...

One of my readers noted that the Plumbing Life's Depths RDF feeds are rather skimpy in the amount of information included in them (only a very small snippet from the main body of the text). So I've added a full-content (but not extended-content) feed, i.e. a feed that has everything that appears on the main ...

I know, I know, not another post pointing to a blog entry, but I will keep in short. I read this little entry rather quickly yesterday and thought "oh, cool, Stacey is playing at the Danforth music festival all weekend". So, when I had work to do that pushed me past 6:00pm I didn't ...

Some part of me is definitely a geek. I wound up working more than 14 hours straight today, mostly because I just couldn't stop working on the problem until it was solved, but the problem refused to solve itself.

What I've been doing is creating a trigger definition mechanism using Nevow's LivePage (Ajax) technology. The ...

Simon's poker night was quite enjoyable. Met Leigh again (I know the spelling is wrong, I just don't know what it really is, but I know it has at least one 'h' in it) again, had seen her at a Unix Unanimous meeting once, but we never talked. Sarah (another of Simon's friends) was also ...

The whole dratted day has been a server-less mess. I did a major graphic re-kit of the VOIP front-end and then tried to pick up all of the little extra pieces that don't require a working server, but when the project is "a front end to this server" it's... uh... less than spectacularly easy to ...

As noted in the last post, I wasn't really thrilled with the idea of seeing Star Wars III (trust issues after being scr*w*d over on I and II). So when I got to the theatre and it didn't show up on the playbill I wasn't exactly crying in my beer :) . Turns out that ...

Shademan just called, he's running late, so I'll have to get down to Young and Bloor on my own, which means I have to leave a bit earlier. Oh well, at least I won't need to type while I'm down there :) .

Got the new video card for Delcina's computer. Installed it and finally logged onto the machine. Thing was in rather rough shape; Norton AV with the subscription long-since expired, half a dozen questionable IE plugins, something that was taking over the IE executable, suspicious-looking card-games, and 79 trojan horse programs installed.

I didn't have their ...

So, I decided I would try running all of the demos/tests that could be expected to run with the current state of OpenGL-ctypes. There's a considerable number of working tests (see the "continue reading" link below for more detail than anyone could possibly care about).

What's better, in doing so, I discovered a fairly big ...