Author archives: Mike

Just discovered an annoying regression in the converters for lists/tuples, namely they will core when you have the accelerator module installed.  They don't core without the accelerator, but that seems to just be dumb luck.  Basically when you pass in a list-of-whatevers to PyOpenGL we have to convert it to something C-friendly, so we want ...

There have been so many changes to try to improve performance and packaging that we're going to have to have another beta for PyOpenGL.  Beta 8 is up on SourceForge.  It includes Win32 installers for both the Python code and the (optional) Cython accelerator modules (for Python 2.5).  Probably should split out the accelerator modules ...

The new laptop is doing well so far, though I haven't used it for more than writing notes just yet.  However, I'm finding that the placement of the home, end, pgup and pgdown buttons makes it very hard to code on.  For some reason I can't fathom someone put keys that only work for web-browser ...

Soni and I moved into our new apartment over the last two days.  Long couple of days.  Our old building's administrator told us two days before the move that we couldn't use the elevator in the period for which we'd asked, so we had to reschedule the movers at the last moment.  They called to ...

I came down with a flu a few days ago.  Have been at home sleeping since, seem to be over the worst of it.

On the extremely bright side, Soni brought home the new laptop yesterday.  Vista really does suck rocks... how can an uber-laptop like this crawl under Vista?  Anyway, I've shrunk the Vista ...

Finally sat down and got my ancient Win2K setup updated sufficiently to install Python 2.6 and MingW32 into it.  Have just compiled the OpenGL_accelerate wrapper.pyd with the setup, but as of yet I don't have enough other 2.6-compatible modules available in the environment to actually test it.  Numpy doesn't seem to be available yet.

SimpleParse ...

Just spent more than 13h on getting a new server, Trac, svn, ssl, selenium test-suite configuration and the like set up for a new project.  It's amazing how much time you can spend on this stuff just to get a basic working environment, not anything particularly special mind you, just an environment where you can ...

Have just been testing the new Cython accelerator module for PyOpenGL 3.x on my workstation.  As seen on the laptop, the PyOpenGL-specific stuff just sort of drops out of the hotspot-set.  There's a few little spots with a percent or two showing up, but pretty much everything else is OpenGLContext scenegraph management stuff.  Those tend ...

Just wrote my first Ruby script (I've only read about it before this).  I'm not falling in love yet... can't say I'm really even finding it beautiful.  All those "ends" scattered around, scoping with line-noise.  I see the niceness of the block abstraction, but I haven't yet come to need them.  Ah well, suppose I ...

I chose 1 million dollars as a small number that should be possible to raise if we have a good enough proposal.  The top three voted projects focus on, one way or another, performance and applicability.  The winning project essentially was to improve Python's concurrency storing markedly.  Basically spend the money on hiring people to ...