Integrating Bullet Physics

Bullet is an open source collision and physics simulation library written by Erwin Coumans who I believe worked or maybe still does work at SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America). Bullet provides a C++ API to a very robust Collision, Rigid Body and Soft body simulation system. At its core Bullet …

Starting Out On The iPad

Why the iPad?

When the iPad was announced I decided it was time to take the plunge and develop a game for it. Although the iPhone is a powerful piece of hardware I just find the screen too limiting. Every game leaves you wishing you had transparent fingers. The iPad …

Replaying an Apache Logfile with Python

NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in October 2008, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.

In order to test for a memory leak in New Metal Army I needed to replay my apache log …

Python Style Plugins Made Easy

NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in January 2008, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.

Sometimes you need to write code that loads python at runtime. Plugin architectures are a good example of this …

PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Dropping All Tables and Sequences

NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in January 2007, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.

There were a number of insightful comments in the original article that I have not copied across. They ended …

FreeBSD Centralised Logging

NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in January 2007, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.

I wanted to log everything from my servers and router to a singer server to make it easier to …

Subversion and Apple Filemerge Integrtaion

NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in January 2007, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.

If you want visual diff’s while developing on OSX using subversion then this page has a good description …

FreeBSD: Slurm… the IPTraf alike for FreeBSD

NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in December 2006, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.

For many moons I have wanted an application like IPTraf for FreeBSD. Well through lack of trying and a …