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SWIG and Smultron

May 31st, 2010 by Mark

A couple points which might be of note to programmers on Mac OS X:

  • Smultron has been forked to continue its development into 10.6 (Snow Leopard).  The new project is called Fraise and it’s working fine for me.  I’d been using TextWrangler since upgrading to Snow Leopard, but I group related files together in separate windows and, lacking the ability to save a window’s contents, had to keep opening more and more windows to be restored on program launch.  When I needed a new window on top of the well-populated four I already had, the inability to save lists of related files to open later (without resorting to AppleScript hacks) finally got me to go check and see if a new Smultron was available.  (Of course, now I’m missing the ability to configure my own keyboard shortcuts.)
  • Anyone attempting to use the latest SWIG (1.3.40) on 10.6 may find this thread useful, once getting it successfully installed.  Specifically, I’ve found the following sequence of commands to work.  (I’m not a SWIG expert, so if anyone knows differently, please feel free to speak up.)
    • swig -c++ -python extension.i
    • gcc -fPIC extension_wrap.cxx -o extension_wrap.o -I/usr/include/python2.6/ -L/usr/lib/python2.6/ -c
    • g++ -dynamiclib -lpython *.o -o _extension.so

New Photos

May 15th, 2010 by Mark

I’ve uploaded lots of pictures from our train trip out to Arizona!  Many of them are captioned as well;  I’ll try to put together an entry documenting the trip later.

I’ve tried to pick the best pictures, but trains do tend to bump around and sometimes my only shot of an interesting subject would have an uneven horizon or interior reflections.

Whew!

March 22nd, 2010 by Mark

Between being a little under the weather and getting my hands dirty in another template system — and I’m aware there’s quite a bit of optimization to be done there yet — that took a while longer than I’d hoped.

Still, my photo page is up, and a couple albums placed thereon!

Pardon the Dust

March 18th, 2010 by Mark

Bringing pieces of the site online as I can…  Need to fix some XHTML, too, I see.

Hopefully the gallery will be up later today!


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