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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
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OpenFrameworks, try 1...
2011-06-13
My attempts at doing things with OpenFrameworks on MacOS X have been mildly disastrous. This is a bit of a shame, because I was really starting to like OpenFrameworks and it was not tough to pick up after being familiar with Processing. I’m pretty new to XCode, but it’s the “official” environment for OpenFrameworks on OS X, so it’s the first thing I tried. The first few attempts at things (whether built-in examples, or my own code) went just fine, but today I started trying some things that were a little more complex - i.…more
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Fun with NX stuff
2009-10-15
So, I was trying out various NX servers because I’d had very good luck with NX in the past and generally found it faster than VNC, RDP, or X11 over SSH. My options appeared to be: NoMachine’s server (here), which is free-as-in-beer but supports only 2 simultaneous sessions. FreeNX made from the components that NoMachine GPLed. It’s open souce, but apparently is a total mess and notoriously hard to set up.…more