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QMake hackery: Dependencies & external preprocessing
2011-11-13
TODO: Put the code here into a Gist? Qt Creator is a favorite IDE of mine for when I have to deal with miserably large C++ projects. At my job I ported a build in Visual Studio of one such large project over to Qt Creator so that builds and development could be done on OS X and Linux, and in the process, learned a good deal about QMake and how to make it do some unexpected things.…more
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Context Free
2011-08-29
My last post mentioned a program called Context Free that I came across via the Syntopia blog as his program Structure Synth was modeled after it. I’ve heard of context-free grammars before but my understanding of them is pretty vague. This program is based around them and the documentation expresses their limitations; what I grasped from this is that no entity can have any “awareness” of the context in which it’s drawn, i.…more
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Isolated-pixel-pushing
2011-08-27
After finally deciding to look around for some projects on GitHub, I found a number of very interesting ones in a matter of minutes. I found Fragmentarium first. This program is like something I tried for years and years to write, but just never got around to putting in any real finished form.…more
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My experiences with Apache Axis2/C
2011-07-15
(This is an abridged version of a report I did at my job; I might post of copy of it once I remove anything that might be considered proprietary.) I was tasked at my job with looking at ways of doing web services in our main application (which for an upcoming delivery is to be separated out into client and server portions). Said application is written primarily in C++, so naturally our first look was into frameworks written for C or C++ so that we would not need to bother with language bindings, foreign function interfaces, porting, new runtimes, or anything of the sort.…more