tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72830017457730570172023-11-16T11:28:09.529+00:00ExeSoftMaking software simplerAnimatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-30033592453480473312010-08-03T23:51:00.004+01:002010-08-03T21:30:11.121+01:00Nearly there!So, it's past the end of the month, and is PyIgnition ready for the 1.0 release? Well, actually, the code is. All the new features are already implemented and theoretically bugless. However, the documentation (which is fairly important seeing as the only purpose of the project is to be used by others) lags significantly behind the numerous ruthless (read: careless and ill-planned) changes I've Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-8692184367155161372010-07-27T13:02:00.010+01:002010-07-27T13:58:12.668+01:00Almost a month onAnd where are we? Well, this time it hasn't been so much a case of laziness or time-wastery that's led to such a huge gap between posts: I'm pleased to announce that PyIgnition is still faring very well. The 1.0 release is still going very much to plan, and will most likely be finished by the end of this month. To share news on all that has been added since the last update here would take far tooAnimatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-83731219145510642262010-06-30T13:13:00.014+01:002010-07-01T21:12:38.401+01:00Keyframe madnessBehold, the promised post! It promises promising developments, developments which seek to fulfil the promise of a promising new keyframe system. There we go, now the word 'promise' looks strange to me. If it doesn't to you, try re-reading the last two sentences again. It's a pretty silly word, isn't it? But I digress.You may recall from the last post that I've been working on a brand new Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-91825193332904250662010-06-25T18:20:00.006+01:002010-06-30T13:16:50.264+01:00...And the post frequency meter was striking thirteen!Yes, I know - two posts in as many days! Utter madness! The post frequency meter is indeed frazzled. But this is merely a swift news-deposit before I head off to undertake the elaborate job of implementing the new keyframing system in PyIgnition for the Alpha 4 ('controlled eruption') release. Incidentally, on that topic, I've just this morning sorted out completely how I'm going to implement theAnimatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-29881867171483017592010-06-24T00:50:00.000+01:002010-06-30T16:11:26.752+01:00It was a bright cold day in April...You asked me once, what was in Post 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Post 101 is... well, pretty cool. All cultural references aside, the content of this amusingly-numbered post is in fact rather spiffy, and comes in the manifestation of an update on PyIgnition's progress. To summarise, it's been going rather spiffily. So spiffiliy indeed Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-81623453525722671832010-06-12T16:27:00.007+01:002010-06-12T20:05:37.912+01:00Happy 100th post!Good day to you all again, my few-and-far-between readers! Welcome, one and all, to what you may already have ascertained is in fact the hundredth discrete outpouring of textual miscellany to grace the monitors of its unfortunate readers. Those of you who have already managed to stumble upon this site before and are (amazingly) visiting again may have noticed that I've decided to mark this Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-31446384359715307852010-05-30T18:16:00.003+01:002010-05-30T18:32:26.950+01:00Exams are done!Yep, that's right. No more high school exams, ever. Physics made its magnificent way onto the 'done' pile on Friday (in a most successful fashion), leaving me free to faff about whilst I wait for the results to come out.Soo, I'll probably have to code something at some stage. On that front, I've been wandering around my 'code' folder to see what's what, and it appears that all that remains to be Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-16057711779609533872010-05-26T20:00:00.003+01:002010-05-26T20:13:22.330+01:00It's brief update time, chaps!Because I'm far too lazy to write anything of length at the moment. Why, you ask? Aah, well that is to be explained in this very post. Well, this paragraph-post. Yes, that's right - I intend to do it all in one paragraph. Mwaha! Brevity is at the soul of my wit, certainly. And tediousness adorns its limbs and outward flourishes. But let that go. To reach pertinently for the point of the Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-35193091922694456392010-05-18T20:47:00.012+01:002010-05-18T22:06:46.742+01:00Damn you, TalkTalk!Hello all, we meet again! But today, things are different - today I come to you battle-scarred and wounded, limping, with the blood of a thousand technological foes dripping from my sword: today, I come to you glorious and victorious. The foe? None other than my ISP,good ol' TalkTalk. The battle? Well, allow me to expound...I'd like to think that by this stage everyone on the 'net would have Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-44998325228842884102010-05-15T23:45:00.020+01:002010-05-16T15:56:13.449+01:00Hello again!Just thought I'd drop in with a surprise update. Yep, I still remember this blog! Even after all these months of separation, myself and blogging remain as firm a couple as, well, myself and laziness. The latter pairing being the reason for the colossal temporal disparity between the then and now; the there and here; the last delivered update from myself, and this current literary phlegm. Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-51997601637262649172010-02-13T14:23:00.010+00:002010-02-13T14:56:38.452+00:00OSX Dock in PygameSalutations to all! Apologies for breaking my vow of voluminous posting with such haste and dexterity, I had four exams and two horrible deadlines to contend with. Gloriously, all that now stands in the past, leaving the way clear for consistent blogging! Hopefully.Now, with the traditional excuses out of the way, I shall share with you the primary purpose of this posting:It's the Mac OSX Dock, Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-18344607481280737612010-01-10T12:45:00.002+00:002010-01-10T12:47:24.135+00:00Happy new year!And, indeed, happy new decade. You'll have to excuse the slight (nine-day) lateness of this post; I was busy forgetting to post. Or something to that effect. The point is... well, non-existent, actually.However, those of you fearing for the safety of this post as it rapidly descends into pointless blabbering may freely clamber out from behind the sofa, because I have news! News most auspicious inAnimatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-20049640661357280732009-12-24T20:18:00.008+00:002009-12-24T20:33:21.495+00:00Merry Christmas to all!Just dropping in for the customary exchange of greetings. Except in this case is isn't really an exchange as such, being as it is a blog whose very nature dictates that all communication can only traverse the distance between our computers in one single direction (with that being from myself to you). Unless of course one takes into account the possibility that you, the user, make use of the post Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-11947406710391460672009-12-11T20:25:00.007+00:002009-12-12T09:52:59.776+00:00Cambridge raverviews!So, here's how they went.First up was the subject-specific interview. This one had moments of awesome and moments of shoddy, but was generally okay. Once again I was surprised by the complete lack of personal statement questions - they began by reading through the main points ("so you've done C++ and python, made a few programs...") and then indirectly asked why I wasn't taking computing. It was Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-78982287378989599362009-12-10T23:12:00.004+00:002009-12-12T09:53:28.307+00:00Imperial college verdictI got an offer! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, etc. I'm rather surprised actually, as I've spent the last week or so gradually lowering my estimation of how well I did and by the time I opened the letter (which, ominously, was small and white) I was already certain of being rejected. 'Twas a pleasant surprise indeed.Unfortunately, it's rather harsh:A band 1 in Maths (Advanced Higher)A in Physics (Advanced Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-1099148547403747112009-12-09T09:39:00.003+00:002009-12-09T09:42:06.791+00:00And so it begins...Today I leave for Cambridge, to be interviewed and multiple-choice-tested tomorrow. Oh dear.I shall tell of the horrors I faced upon my Thursday return, unless of course I'm too scarred by it all and can't post again until Friday. Either way, watch this space!Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-9810422533455242882009-11-29T22:14:00.012+00:002009-11-29T22:49:32.629+00:00Oh noes!!*annoying popping sound*MCAFEE WARNINGThe program 'McAfee updater' is trying to access the Internet!!! OMGWTFLOL!!*pause**annoying popping sound*MCAFEE WARNINGMcAfee is out of date! Oh noezzz what shall we do?!?!?I shit thee not. Well, perhaps it wasn't worded quite like that, but that's how I choose to read it. Yes, McAfee SecurityCenter (bloody American spellings) has finally caught up and Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-56864440284369923012009-11-19T00:30:00.006+00:002009-11-19T20:00:44.906+00:00Imperial postmortemStraight from the gargantuan sprawling mass of over-urbanisation that is London, I return! Now, allow me to spin for ye a tale of terror, adventure and outright ravery.To begin with, I was ludicrously early - once again Google Maps has presumed me to be a lethargic snail made of concrete, and the journey from the underground station to Imperial College which it estimated as taking around twenty Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-58541938025678982592009-11-17T16:17:00.002+00:002009-11-17T16:20:06.921+00:00Imperial College London interview tomorrow...Eep. Fear and pre-emptive terror shall ensue.Well, I'll be sure to post here afterwards to say how badly it went. And then maybe I can get on with ExeSketch!Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-71579540943057071922009-11-14T13:10:00.005+00:002009-12-12T09:52:40.773+00:00Got an interview for CambridgeHoorah!Quite surprisingly I've got a massive amount of notice for this one - apparently they don't normally tell you until the week before, thus forcing you to spend vast quantities of cash on train tickets. It's not until the 10th of December, a full four weeks after the one at Imperial (which is rapidly closing in!). Now, by D00ve's Law (given a particular timeframe T, the time spent Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-59644804790397798372009-11-08T14:01:00.004+00:002009-11-08T14:23:49.247+00:00Once more out of the gloomIt's time for...anotherUPDATESo, what's new this time?Well, to start off with, here's the UCAS application situation:Cambridge - Acknowledged, and allocated to Jesus collegeImperial College London - newly-added choice; invited for interviewEdinburgh - AcknowledgedGlasgow - Unconditional offer!St Andrews - AcknowledgedSo even if all four of my other choices reject me, I can at least go to Glasgow!Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-48129240278612282172009-10-16T19:14:00.014+01:002009-10-16T20:15:03.492+01:00Updates galore!This post, in essence, is a being of two halves. Two halves not unrelated, but mutually hateful of one other and perpetually at war. And as such, I think it best to keep them discrete lest they destroy each other in a fiery rain of textual combat. So, here we go:The ExeSketch halfBéziers are finally implemented! Well, if I'm honest, they've been implemented for about a week now. But, as you will Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-66497700041079242092009-09-27T15:16:00.004+01:002009-10-04T18:19:14.662+01:00Switching to freeglutAs you may know if you follow ExeSketch's launchpad page, I recently decided to use freeglut instead of GLUT for the project. As luck would have it, the process of switching over only really involved replacing a few '#include's - although I had to rename several of my constants as they apparently conflicted with freeglut ones.This means I can now process events like turning the scrollwheel on theAnimatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-32084989844625584102009-09-18T21:14:00.005+01:002009-09-18T21:23:21.317+01:00Well, it wasn'tLast post I mentioned that this week would probably be a quiet one. Well, fate felt tempted and assailed me with a week so copiously endowed with commitments that it ended up being the least productive week ExeSketch has seen so far. So I'm going to have to apologise again. However, all of the open days are now done and the personal statement for university is getting there, so I might be able toAnimatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283001745773057017.post-52533870367397706952009-09-12T23:54:00.003+01:002009-09-13T00:17:48.011+01:00It's excuse time!Why, you may cry, are the posts so elusive? Well here's an excuse, hopefully not too obtrusive:School again. Well, this time it's not so much school as the preparation for leaving it: I've been spending a lot of time messing around at university open days (descending on unexpectant cities and causing trouble) and attempting to write a personal statement for applications (playing Tetris and Animatinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435352401454364800noreply@blogger.com0