Squawks of the Parrot

Configuration systems are a collection of data, a tree of rules, and a set of templates. (Which are arguably just funny rules, but it's convenient to treat template instantiators and rules as sepa...

Continuing on from the previous post, let's consider some of the functionality of a configure system. You will, inevitably, want to instantiate some rules at runtime. You don't really need to do t...

So, on the near-anniversary of the last post, I've been thinking about configuration systems. What they are, what they do, and how you make 'em work.
They're one of those things most people never ...

Okay, so, I'm unimaginative, but I like the game of life. It's nifty, looks cool, captures the attention of people (like, say, me) who're attracted to shiny things going "Pling!", and stresses int...

So, I've released Tornado 0.05. This release, in addition to a few bug fixes, now properly handles callbacks into the embedding application. The perl module's been rev'd to handle this as well. Th...

I know it's an act of supreme, if likely wrongheaded, laziness, but rather than trying to figure out how to build libraries on Windows, or get libraries loading via relative paths right on OS X, I...

Just cut a release of Tornado 0.04 -- http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/things/tornado-0.04.tar.gz. More fixed bugs and whatnot, but the fun new thing now is that the perl module (in the perl subdirectory...

I should know by now -- whenever I'm facing large masses of mostly-identical code it's a sign that it's time to do some templating.
I did this in tornado with the opcodes, in large part because I ...

Yeah, so I blew it. A required file was missing, one I hadn't added to the repository. Ouch.
Anyway, it's in, and as a bonus there are some (very) minimal docs in the docs/ directory that I've cle...

So, I added in rudimentary garbage collection to Tornado. Nothing fancy, but enough to clean up after itself as its running. (Not as it exits yet, though -- still leaks then)
It only builds as pac...