Archives July 2006
Vacant Demons
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Why do you keep me waking
When I would be abed
Leave me vacant demons
Full of puzzles full of cares
I would sleep when I lie there
Please Hold my Heart
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Someone hold my heart for me
It's grown to large to bear
Trapping unsaid
What should be sung
Cherishing pains
Long ago stung
Waiting on bells
That once might have rung
Those I Love
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Soon I will lose those I love
For they are merely mortal
Mortal life however long
Is bounded in hard measure
They will pass as I know shall I
Possibly before they know
That they are those I love
Little traction this afternoon (Bouncing around between tasks...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
I was fully intending to spend the evening on porting OpenGL-ctypes to Win32. However, I realised that the workstation doesn't have the Toolkit compiler set up, which always takes hours, so I thought I'd try wrapping some of the more advanced extensions (vertex shaders, pixel shaders, that kind of thing).
Of course, I don't have ...
On fixing taps (Don't do it until there's a real problem...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Friday I tried to fix the (Windows XP) 3D rendering on the laptop. Now XP simply can't boot (crashes trying to load the AGP module). I need to use an XP Pro disk to repair the installation, but I don't have one of those (the XP instance is the one that came pre-installed on the ...
On $250/month coders (Outsourcing and other operations...)
Written by
on
in
Knight Errant.
We were having a debate this evening on the issue of outsourcing to "developing" countries, particularly discussing a case where apparently a business aquaintance has hired a 4-person programming team for $1000/month. The question is, is this going to be a good deal for the money?
My take on it is this; in a global ...
Eyes at Midnight
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
I looked into eyes at midnight
Black and sparkling in the light
In the smiling face of a gentle heart
Open to all and granting each a part
The angels savoured that high moment
Yet I was troubled as we stood
I think had I stood longer
I would have had to cry
Remembering this ...
OpenGL-ctypes finally gets tessellation (Read the spec a little more carefully and all becomes clear...)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
I'm obviously not spending enough time with coding OpenGL these days. The reason that the GLU tessellation callbacks were messed up was that I was mis-reading the spec and trying to convert pointers to Vertex objects into double arrays. I went through altering the OpenGLContext code to work with vertex pointers before I realised "wait ...
Changing PyGTA's meeting day (3rd Tuesday of the month instead of the 4th)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
We're tentatively (pending clearing it with Linux Caffe) planning to move PyGTA to the 3rd Tuesday of the month in order to stop conflicting with DemoCamp. Will try to get that cleared up tomorrow.
Very full day... (Yay!)
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
This is the kind of day I live for. Good day at work (continuing training), then the PyGTA meeting (SQLObject presentation might have been better if I'd been using it for months and months, but oh well), then out for drinks after PyGTA, then chatting out on the street with Seneca and Stephan afterward, then ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.