Articles by Chris Howie

  1. LMC Virtual Machine

    At my school, we have been using Visible Virtual Machine in our Computer Architecture class. There is nothing more frustrating to me than having professors require that I use some Windows software for homework.

    So I wrote my own version, which I have released under the GPL. It uses Gtk ...

    Tagged as : C#
  2. Love according to a geek

    It's true. For the first time in my life, I am head over heels in love. I'm not even sure what to write; words are about as inadequate to express love as a glass is to contain the ocean. But since this is mainly a technology blog, it ...

    Tagged as : Personal
  3. Manhood

    Some of you may know that I celebrated my 21st birthday recently. So I guess I'm legally an adult according to the law, which means that I should be mature enough to choose how much of my time I want to spend drunk. Apparently turning 21 is that life-changing ...

    Tagged as : Personal Rant
  4. More Affe hackery

    Today I added:

    • Variable persistence. If a field of type ScriptState is tagged [AffeBound] on the host class, it will be used to store the state of all of the variables local to the script. If no such field is found, no state preserving IL will be emitted.
    • Bound methods ...
    Tagged as : C#
  5. More HD-DVD fanart!

    To further test US copyright law, I have created more art that incorporates the released AACS processing key that the MPAA is sending DMCA takedown notices over. Due to the size of the image I am making it available exclusively at deviantART.

    The image uses 24-bit sections of the key ...

    Tagged as : AACS
  6. More on WikiBench

    I've been hacking on WikiBench some more. The primary addition is the recent changes pad, which you can see in the screenshot. It is a separate addin that hooks into the WikipediaChangeStream addin to provide a list of changes to the user. Clicking a row in the list will ...

  7. More optimization

    Not creative enough to think of a better title right now...

    I just spent almost two hours hacking away at the Banshee visualization pipeline again and made one very important optimization: when the callback function is null (which happens when nobody in managed land is listening for visualization data) the ...

    Tagged as : Banshee C# OpenVP
  8. More visualizations

    I spent some of Tuesday porting some of my older OpenVP visualizations from XML-serialized scripted effect presets to "real" preset classes, and committed them to Banshee.OpenVP. The results:

    Power Core screenshot

    Tagged as : Banshee OpenVP

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