WowPlot 0.2.4 (supporting 4.2 Combat Logs)

Posted on 2011-07-26 [Tuesday] by [maven]

Here’s an update to WowPlot that supports Patch 4.2 Combat Logs with extended actor flags.

A further update with Lion-specific features (fullscreen, auto-saving, …) is in the works as well.

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OS X Lion – Notes for Scientific Computing

Posted on 2011-07-25 [Monday] by [maven]
  • No longer includes swig
  • No longer includes openmpi
  • Python 2.71
  • Binaries compiled as universal x86_64 and i386 (no more ppc)
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    Obituary (WoW addon, Patch 4.2 compatible)

    Posted on 2011-07-02 [Saturday] by [maven]

    Here’s a another version of Obituary (which I have labelled 1.0.6) updated to work with World of Warcraft Patch 4.2 (“Firelands”) from Timewasted’s version on WoWInterface. It is not the same as the addon of the same name found on Curse, but they are rather similar (and might stem from the same source).
    This one has more options, for example detailed reports in pop-up windows, and more configuration for the output.

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    Obituary (WoW addon, Patch 4.1 compatible)

    Posted on 2011-04-30 [Saturday] by [maven]

    Here’s a version of Obituary (which I have labelled 1.0.5) updated to work with World of Warcraft Patch 4.1 from Timewasted’s version on WoWInterface. It is not the same as the addon of the same name found on Curse, but they are rather similar (and might stem from the same source).
    This one has more options, for example detailed reports in pop-up windows, and more configuration for the output.

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    Dear iPhone Developer

    Posted on 2011-04-05 [Tuesday] by [maven]

    I’m sure all your existing customers really appreciate the incremental upgrades and new features you’ve integrated into your app over time. What started out as a simple thing is now a veritable feature-fortress.
    But please, keep in mind the new-user-experience, for dudes like me who discovered your app 6 months later and who didn’t scrutinize the change-log from upgrade to upgrade and have no clue what the “Smooth” option in the menu actually does.
    Go back to your introductory user experience / tutorial and make sure it actually does cover all the cool stuff you added in v1.1 – v1.3.1 instead of being eternally stuck at v1.0. Discoverability and help / documentation is a big deal for every release, even if it is at times difficult to have to ask Art Guy to come up with a new design instead of simply shoving a new, tiny, undocumented button into that free space on the bottom-right corner.

    Sincerely, me.

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    The Girl Who Leapt Through Time / Toki o Kakeru Shōjo

    Posted on 2011-03-26 [Saturday] by [maven]

    Great film. I regret not having seen it earlier (as I thought that it didn’t sound that interesting — I was wrong).
    Addendum: Summer Wars is also great.

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    WowPlot 0.2.0 (for WoW 4.0.1)

    Posted on 2010-10-23 [Saturday] by [maven]

    I had some itching coding fingers again and thus added support for the new World of Warcraft Patch 4.0.1 changes to WowPlot. As usual, the direct download is here and the source is over at bitbucket.
    If a log from 4.0.1 causes trouble, get in touch.

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    Marple

    Posted on 2010-08-09 [Monday] by [maven]

    Update on my iPhone puzzle games post: There is actually a remake of the Palm OS game Hercule, and it is called Marple (Universal app for both iPhone and iPad).

    Shockingly, this post was made possible by the “Genius” app recommendations now available on the iTunes store.

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    Zoë Keating – Into the Trees

    Posted on 2010-07-01 [Thursday] by [maven]

    Ever since I’d stumbled upon her live performance of Escape Artist for Wired, I’ve been looking forward to be able to actually buy the song. Now the album it’s on, called “Into the Trees”, is out. =)
    It’s full of instrumental cello music, layered very deeply using things like loop-pedals (a bit like DubFX for example) and other techno-thingamajigs.
    Nice mixtures of sweeping arrangements with rhythms and staccato / picked sequences, reminds me of the music used in Braid in places.

    Highly recommended. Listen / buy here.

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    bitbucket

    Posted on 2010-06-14 [Monday] by [maven]

    I finally got around to a) updating my old WordPress-installation (after finding out spam-bots had already created custom folders on my installation) and b) uploading all my public code to bitbucket (as Mercurial repositories).
    That includes my wavelet image compression library, its Mac OS X previewing GUI as well as WowPlot (including some fairly decent Objective-C WoWCombatLog.txt parsing). I converted most of those repositories from darcs (which in the case of my wavelet lib took about 3h to convert from darcs1 to darcs2 format), but on first glance they look alright.

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    Joe Abercrombie – Best Served Cold

    Posted on 2009-11-23 [Monday] by [maven]

    It’s as enjoyable as the “First Law” trilogy; he stills has that fascination for broken / crippled characters (but as every reviewer mentioned them it’s only natural he sticks to what’s been working) — and unsurprisingly this book is quite similar to his others.
    2/3rds of the book along, there is some sort of plot twist (which is presented in a nifty fashion) but seems to have no basis in the motivation of the characters (i.e. they seem to act contrarian to their interior motivations only to serve the slight twist that has some repercussions later on).
    Anyway, don’t let that stop you, it’s still a rather gory and dirty fantasy romp. The overall world / setting is one I quite enjoy, especially the background with the Valint & Balk vs the prophet and his eaters.

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    Regina Spektor – Far (+misc)

    Posted on 2009-07-20 [Monday] by [maven]

    Piano-pop music (a bit similar to Ben Folds). Really like the album, but the incessant repetition of some of the lyrics goes on my nerves, as do the Hallelujahs.
    Stand-outs: Dance Anthem of the 80′s, Eet, The Calculation.

    Other music I’ve recently picked up:
    65daysofstatic – The Fall of Math
    The Tings Tings – We Started Nothing
    Anna Ternheim – Seperation Road
    Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim

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