Archives week 3 of 2008

Given that gcc can be a bit heavy, it would be neat if we had a compile farm somewhere made out of Qemu images with overlays that people working on XOs could shell into in order to compile various software. I use this approach on my workstation when I want to do something that's messy ...

Developed a product a few years ago using Twisted, which got left on a shelf due to unavoidable complications at the business level. Client with a license to alter the code asked me to make some changes to it, so I sat down today to rebuild the development environment...

Twisted and Nevow have moved along, ...

Got the AStar implementation working again. Was a couple of stupid little bugs in the code that creates the topology from the map. AStar is a graph-based implementation (which is nice, because Productive uses a graph-based world definition so that at some point we can have very complex map types), which traces through the connections ...

Since Productive is not considered an official task, it's been stalled for a while. Took a few hours today to try to un-stall it. Mostly trying to optimize the AStar algorithm. Sped it up to the point where a moderately sized world (96x96) takes about .6s to compute an AStar path. That's still way too ...