Author Archives: David
Avida 3.0 development discussion heating up
It’s been quiet on the blog for a while. What personal blog doesn’t go silent once in a while? That doesn’t mean I’ve been bored, though. Quite the opposite, I have been hard at work on a number of projects, … Continue reading
The City Limits
Simply amazing timelapse photography by Dominic Boudeault. Timelapse – The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo. Via Jonathan Woods at MSNBC.
TestRunner 2.0 now available
I have just posted TestRunner 2.0. New features include Git support and JUnit compatible XML report generation. See the TestRunner page for more details. TestRunner itself is now managed with Git as well. You may clone the master repository at … Continue reading
Centering custom views inside an NSScrollView
In Cocoa, a NSScrollView provides basic functionality for encapsulating a view with a scrolling frame. It provides the appropriate plumbing and hooks it all together so that it ‘just works’. At least in theory. In practice, I encountered a few … Continue reading
Avida project gets a major upgrade
I have recently been doing some major updates to the public face of the Avida project. Although it has long been our intention to have Avida be a true open source project with a vibrant community of developers and users, … Continue reading
"Why 3D Doesn’t Work and Never Will. Case Closed."
Walter Murch, in a letter to Roger Ebert, explains that the biggest problem with 3D is the "convergence/focus" issue. The audience must focus at the screen, a plane at a fixed distance away. However, to properly view the screen their … Continue reading
"They Were There"
Great film by Errol Morris for IBM (via John Gruber).
Starting at BEACON Thursday
Its OFFICIAL! I will starting work full-time for the new Bio-computational Evolution in Action Consortium (BEACON) at Michigan State University on Thursday this week. Half of my time will be spent developing and supporting computing resources for the center, including … Continue reading