April 29, 2007

libpion 0.1.0 released!

Filed under: Digital Information, Computer Software — mike @ 10:45 pm

Today I released my first 3,000 lines of open source (LGPL) code.

libpion is a library that makes it easy for C++ software developers to implement lightweight HTTP interfaces. I’ve been working on this new project on and off for the past few weeks and using it as a way to learn Boost, asio and GNU autotools.

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April 19, 2007

Mac VMs Revisited

Filed under: Computer Software — mike @ 6:54 pm

I received my shiny new 8-core Mac Pro today, and boy is it FAST! I’ve been working lately on a C++ project in Xcode (libpion). It’s new and therefore was already building fairly quickly on my MacBook Pro. But on my new machine I hit “build”, watch all eight CPU bars jump up, and then — almost instantly — it’s done. I haven’t been this excited about a new tech toy since Santa gave me (the original) Game Boy for Christmas! =)

In my last post on Mac Virtual Machines, I ran a few tests to compare VMware Fusion & Parallels for Mac. Eric pointed out a few tips in his comments that he felt would help improve the accuracy of these tests, so I decided to run them again on my new toy.

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April 14, 2007

Mac Virtual Machines

Filed under: Computer Software — mike @ 11:48 am

Virtual machines have come a long way since I first started playing around with VMware several years ago. As a software developer and Mac user, I’ve been anxiously following the great leaps forward made by Intel, Apple, Parallels and VMware over the past year.

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April 2, 2007

The Metaverse Ahead

Filed under: Digital Information — mike @ 10:36 am

3PointD, one of my favorite blogs about the Metaverse and 3D Web, had its first birthday yesterday. To celebrate, Mark Wallace made a few predictions on “the Metaverse ahead.” Mark’s discussion on mashups and convergence got me thinking about how this relates to my work on SPUD.

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