Strange Adventures in Infinite Space is a game I remember fondly from the early 2000s a simple and small game that could be played in the space of 20 minutes and was a lot of fun. In 2005, the authors released the source code under the GPL, and I threw out a quick port [ ]
So, I starting playing with Raytracers again writing my own, following the guidance of Raytracing from the Ground Up. In doing so, I ve gotten an opportunity to throw the code over various modern Multi-core machines to get a bit of an interesting look into FP performance in modern systems. The raytracer in question is [ ]
Just a few notes from this one. I rescued some old gear from ACMS with the intent of at least getting some of it operational whilst I kept a hold of it. One of the items was a DEC InfoTower system with 7 CD-ROM drives. The InfoTower was a DEC InfoServer 1000 in a steel [ ]
Out of frustration with how slow working on an E6B can be during flight planning, I ve been looking into electronic options for replacing it that do not involve buying an overpriced specialised calculator. Whilst solutions like the CX-2 can be used in the US in exams, they can t be used here, which defeats any benefit [ ]
I tagged along to the JMF on a whim, partially as a fan of JRock/JPop and partially as a photographer looking for somewhere to practice my camera-craft during my off-season. It was a great show. Ended up buying Jill s and kaimokujisho s albums. Should have picked up Sparky s album too, but I was suffering pretty [ ]
So, Rails4 added support for setting the transaction isolation level on transactions. Something Rails has needed sorely for a long time. Unfortunately nowhere is it documented how to correctly detect if a Transaction has failed during your Transaction block (vs any other kind of error, such as constraints failures). The right way seems to be: [ ]
Currently foremost in my mind has been my annoyances with Python. My current gripes have been with pickle. Rather than taking a conventional approach and devising a fixed protocol/markup for describing the objects and their state, they invented a small stack based machine which the serialisation library writes bytecode to drive in order to restore [ ]
Well, Animania has come and gone. I ve posted my photos up to Flickr as usual. Spent plenty of time chatting with Kris from whatabigcamera.com and a few other of the regular anime convention photography crowd whom I ve been interacting since I got back into things. Very low shutter count again this time I think only [ ]
SMASH! has come and gone. It was an excellent effort given it was it s first time at the Sydney Convention Centre. Unfortunately, I was quite sick this past week and have only just gotten over that so I cut my kit down heavily (I only brought one camera, 2 lenses and my speedlights), kept [ ]
Mordenvale s Spring War has come and gone for this year. It was a good event with great fighting (although the first day of war saw me forced to retire due to hand injury) I took my full camera kit with me to the event and got some nice photos during the first few rounds of [ ]