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The Power to do it Wrong 16 Oct 2011 | 05:26 pm
I believe I am not alone in finding myself, more often then I might like, having to make less than ideal decisions in the world of software development. I find myself lamenting inconsistencies and war...
Running Tests for Multiple Pythons 18 Aug 2010 | 04:31 pm
For my Planar project, I'm committed to being compatible for Python 2.6-3.1 and beyond. Since this project contains C extensions, that means that I need to be able to build and test for each Python co...
Planar 0.1 27 Apr 2010 | 04:26 pm
Planar is a 2D geometry library I'm working on for use by my Grease game engine. For maximum usefulness, however, I'm distributing planar as a separate library. Since it doesn't have any external dep...
Arg Parsing Micro-Benchmark 15 Apr 2010 | 06:38 pm
I'm working on a vector class for my shiny new Planar geometry Python library. When I was working on Lepton (which is mostly in C), I was keenly aware of the overhead of the generic arg parsing C-APIs...
Frameworks, Libraries, Namespaces and Distributions 23 Mar 2010 | 01:13 pm
I've been busy not working on the code for my game engine framework Grease recently. I've actually been working on the documentation, but since I can't help myself, I've been thinking a good bit about...
Grease 0.1 Released 1 Mar 2010 | 09:24 am
I released the inaugural 0.1 release of my game engine Grease today. This is basically a throw-it-over-the-wall release so that I can use the code and push it further during the upcoming pyweek compo ...
Decorate Thy Keyboard Controls 17 Jan 2010 | 08:00 pm
As part of a game engine called Grease I'm working on (more on that sometime soon) I was thinking about ways to create a clean and efficient api for handling keyboard events. Too often this ubiquitous...
_______ is Better Than _______ 12 Jan 2010 | 01:12 pm
If explicit truly was better than implicit, Python code would look like this: StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder() And let's face it, that's not enlightening to anyone.
Lepton featured in Python Magazine 15 Jul 2009 | 05:20 am
In a nice little article by yours truly: http://pymag.phparch.com/c/issue/view/100
Lepton Particle Targeting 19 Mar 2009 | 03:37 pm
The other feature I alluded to in my last post was targeting, which allows you to specify specific starting and ending values for particle attributes and interpolate between them over time. This is us...
