A while back I was teaching myself various basic data structures and algorithms, as well as writing my own allocator classes, when I came to a point where I needed a simple way to unit test all my workings. I’ve used a couple of unit tests systems in the past (boost for instance) but always found …
I actually began this post well over a year ago, as I remember struggling to work out how to read keyboard input in X. Anyway, I thought I’d finally finish it off for posterity’s sake 🙂 I recently had to implement some API calls in Linux to be able to return what keys were currently …
Because I’ve had to install Ubuntu a lot recently, and I always forget how to do this. Basically by default Ubuntu binds ALT+LMB to moving windows. This is incredibly frustrating for nearly every 3D application, as this is usually the way to rotate a camera, so most people disable this shortcut. The simplest way I’ve …
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A while back I was porting an application to Qt 4.8 on Windows and, due to the fact the program couldn’t deal with varying DPI settings, I had to make sure Qt didn’t call the “SetProcessDPIAware()” function. The simple way to do this would be to simply recompile Qt to remove this offending line, but as we wanted to …
Sometimes it’s really useful to be able to encrypt a file locally, and although there’s lots of pieces of software that can do this for you, I much prefer to just do it myself. Using Terminal’s “openssl” command, it’s really really simple to encrypt a file well enough for snoops to not be able to …
It’s been awhile since I’ve done any development on NUKE, so when the other day I was asked to put together a simple plugin on OSX, I thought it would be a good time to try and create a simple XCode project to do my development in. My reasoning for doing this was two fold. …
Recently I’ve started delving into the world of writing iOS apps, mainly because it’s just so much faster to develop than in C/C++. I decided to create a little exercise app to give it some context called “FriendTracker”. The premise was that it would keep a history of your location, but also allow you to …
Recently in my spare time I’ve been dabbling on Apple’s not-so-new OpenGL replacement, Metal, which has frankly been an absolute joy. It’s a very neat and tidy API, a lot simpler to understand than the monstrosity that is OpenGL and gives a lot more fine-grained control over command dispatch, sharing buffers and threaded dispatch (yey!) For all its …
Recently I’ve been getting my teeth into NoSQL-based map-reduce problems, where I want to throw a lot of data into a database and then produce some interesting queries. For this I decided to start playing about with MongoDB, which seems to be one of the most popular solutions out there. For this, I wanted to get it running as a system …
Setting up Symfony on El Capitan, using Apache. I recently updated my laptop to Apple’s newest OS, El Capitan, and unfortunately due to their new rootless feature, the setup I had working for web development had been reset. For this reason, I thought I’d really quickly show how easy it is to setup an Apple …