Monthly Archives: May 2012

Unix sockets echo example

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

Some stuff that came up at the office got me curious about Unix network programming. Fortunately I have a few books here that touch on that topic (both Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment and Advanced MAC OS X Programming), … Continue reading →

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Random pixel animation with GTK+

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

I still want to make a proper write-up of this program, but for now a brief video with some commentary will do (mostly as a reminder to me!). The source is here: https://github.com/cheydrick/GTKPixBufTest Now that I have a basic grip on … Continue reading →

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Seeing stars

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

There are several great leaps I think all newbie programmers make. The first is text input and output, then the next is reading to and from a file. One of my big leaps last year was GUI programming – escaping … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu-ception

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

Running a GTK+ program through ssh with X forwarding (simply displaying a quickly drawn .png file). This ssh session is being run inside Ubuntu which is being run in a Virtualbox session hosted by Windows 7. One program being run … Continue reading →

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Project Euler 7

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

My old online journal kept track of my progress through the Project Euler problems. I’m glad I kept track of them there (by posting the source) because the first 12 problems I solved were individual programs scattered across three computers … Continue reading →

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termios structure sanity check

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

Some initial testing with setting up serial communication flummoxed me. I decided to work up a tool to give me a hand. https://github.com/cheydrick/ssanity Any evening you get to use the ternary operator is a good one, right? ssanity runs through … Continue reading →

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One defining purpose

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

One of the biggest impediments to learning C is having to learn the different between things that are there because they are necessary, and things that are there because of good practice. I kept encountering tokens being defined in header … Continue reading →

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Serial port interface prep work

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

I really want to get a grip on serial communication. Step one is to set up something to read from or send to. I had hoped that it would be similar to how web servers worked – I can set … Continue reading →

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Interfacing a Line 6 Pod X3 Live to Reaper in OS X

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

Getting the drivers installed and having Reaper recognize my Pod X3 Live as the recording interface was easy. Translating the two stereo inputs on the X3 to available lines to record in Reaper isn’t straightforward. The X3 is pretty neat. … Continue reading →

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Guitar practice

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Chris Heydrick

I bought this guitar in high school and have yet to be any good. I’ve had “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by The Darkness in my head for days so I pulled up a tab and decided to get some … Continue reading →

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