Category Archives: Programming

Programming topics. Threads, graphics, realtime, whatever.

Winter Banner

And now I have a new Winter themed banner. See the code and assets for it in my processing banners git repo here ( https://github.com/jd-boyd/processingjs-banners ). Processing.js can be found here This expands out into working with particles as objects, … Continue reading

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How I like to build for Windows

I’ve seen a growing number of free software Windows programs where the recommended (or only) build procedure is to cross-build from Linux. I really like this idea. The latest I noticed that did this is the Clementine music player (which … Continue reading

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I am now on Google+ http://gplus.to/jdboyd

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virtualenv and pip

Sorry, this isn’t a very original post. There are many guides on using virtualenv and pip. Some of them will be more comprehensive. Still, I find value in posting this because to some extent I do use my web site … Continue reading

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The Game Of Life

The new banner is Conway’s Game Of Life. To quote

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Remeber: When you need to serve simple content for testing (say because of AJAX restrictions on file:///), do: python -m SimpleHTTPServer

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Change of Theme

I like the basic design of TwentyTen (the WordPress default), but I didn’t like the stock header choices. After some time thinking about it, I decided that there should be something dynamic up there. Dynamic is more invasive than just … Continue reading

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Progress

I’ve been working on two projects. Well, one project with a sub project. And I switched jobs (more soon). I have a web app that I’ve been working on updating to be ajax’y. It is a feed reader (think Google … Continue reading

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PodTrack

This is a little command line utility for downloading podcasts into a directory. This can make for easy rsyncing to a flash card, or listening with a command line audio player. Find it at: https://github.com/jd-boyd/Podtrack I use it.  I don’t … Continue reading

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C++ Message Passing (overview, between threads)

Having installed Google Analytics two months ago, I now know that the two most popular search phrases that people use to get here from Google are “elisp hex” and “c++ message passing”.  There isn’t much more to say about using … Continue reading

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