Tag: programming
Object Oriented Programming in C
September 5th, 2007, No Comments
One of the C projects I’m working on needed some object oriented features of the type one would normally use C++ for. I thought it shouldn’t be too hard to do some minimal OO stuff in C and it turns out there are plenty of examples and complete frameworks out there to help. If you’d [...]
First Post^M^M^M^M GPLv3 Relicense
June 29th, 2007, No Comments
To celebrate today’s release of the GPLv3, I’ve released updates of my two ODP-related programs, dumpcheck and odp2db under the GPLv3 license. GPLv2 – Where the future begins tomorrow My one complaint about the new license is the changed wording in the How-To section. The GPLv2 How-To section had a neat Thomas Pynchon / Buckaroo [...]
Random software and robot news
May 24th, 2007, No Comments
I’ve been doing a little more C programming lately. On the embedded level, I’m porting some odometery and waypoint navigation code written by David P. Anderson for use on my own robot. This is part of a larger project to put together a GPL’d library of mobile robot code. Don’t expect to see it anytime [...]
Pycon
March 8th, 2007, No Comments
I’ve fallen a little behind in my blogging so I better post this before too much time slips by! Since the Pycon conference was held in Dallas this year, I stopped by a couple of times in the hopes of meeting fellow Advogato users. I also wanted to hear Guido van Rossum speak. I did [...]
The Year is off to a Good Start for Free Software
January 5th, 2007, No Comments
Everywhere I look lately, I’m seeing good news about 3D graphics acceleration support for free software users. Since I started collecting numbers last year, the highest glxgears results we’d seen for any free software driver was a little over 3,000 FPS. Now we’re begining to see number for the R300 code that has been added [...]
