I've been getting bored with my current avatar and thinking about making this my new one. I spent an hour writing some screen capture code into the dodecahellspawn program, which exported a series of targas. It wasn't until a few hours later that I realized that some of the color channels were sw…

Here's some screenshots from my dodecahellspawn "game" that I wrote five years ago. (One image, multiple screenshots.)

It's basically a Rubic's cube done with a dodecahedron. The computer model was done so I could visualize the pieces out properly. I tried to construct a physical model based on the …

// *
// *  aoi/test/test.impl
// *
// *  Implementation for testing functionality
// *

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

namespace aoi {
  namespace test {
    namespace {
      class TestRunner
        : public thread::ClassLevelLockable
      {
        public:
          std::vect…

This is only a test.

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In one of the earlier versions of my code library, I just used loki's ClassLevelLockable<> class for some of my locking needs. Unfortunately, Loki uses static objects to initialize the mutexes form ClassLevelLockable<> which has order of intialization issues that I ran into fairly fast.…

Basic locking has been reintergrated into the library. This was the first thing up since the testing system actually depends on locking to some degree. Before it was implemented against do-nothing stubs. This is less hackish than it sounds since the do-nothing stubs are still in the library as the…

One lesser known detail about the C and C++ languages is that assert.h and its analogue cassert can both be included multiple times in the same program, and the value of the assert() macro can be potentially different after each inclusion. This just pisses me off. I understand the reasoning behind …

That part about working on the library today? I lied. Today I slept and played Dynasty Tactics 2. (It's not completely slacking off. After all, I'm working on a tactics game myself, right?)

One thing I notice about Dynasty Tactics 2 is that I don't enjoy as much as, say, Final Fantasy Tactics or Di…

Not much to report, progress-wise. I wired in the basics of the testing framework today. The testing framework is scavenged from an old project of mine. It's a XUnit style system, though much of the elegance of, say, JUnit is replaced with brute force hackery. C++ doesn't support reflection nativel…

Well today I erected the basic scaffolding for the code library. This includes basic stuff like creating a MSVC project, a Makefile for gcc and shlumping the whole thing into Subversion. Since I'm doing a major rework of the whole thing, I've decided to break in a new namespace and file extension. …