Despite having good success building other GNU packages, I have tried unsuccessfully for years to compile GNU Guile v2 for Mac OS X. Perhaps just as well, since OS X is proprietary software, but nevertheless, I wanted to get it … Continue reading →
I’ve been reading Bringing Design to Software, an ancient tome (published in 1996) that collects interviews with a dozen software practitioners on the subject of software design. In modern parlance, what was called “software design” in 1996 might overlap with … Continue reading →
Software developers who have been out of school for a while and apply for new jobs routinely bemoan that they have forgotten details of things like algorithms and data structures and other computer science topics that tend to pop up … Continue reading →
Working on a book formatted with GNU Texinfo, I ran into a mysterious error when processing the Texinfo source through TeX (via texi2pdf): (Variable Index) [145] (Concept Index) [146] (./c.cps ./c.cps:1: Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. l.1 , 145} I … Continue reading →
In one of those rare instances when my schedule and that of the local chapter of the IEEE aligned, tonight I enjoyed listening to a talk by Chris Wyman on the topic of real-time 3D graphics rendering. This blog post … Continue reading →