Monday, September 01, 2008

Querying Wow64 registry keys from a 64-bit Python

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KEY_WOW64_32KEY gets the job done import _winreg key = None KEY_WOW64_32KEY = 0x0200 try: key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACH...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Hardware Inventory

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Turning the basement upside down yielded 2 Commodore 64s (old style breadbox, one white and one brown) 2 1541 old-school drives (brown enclo...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

hash_map band aid

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Until TR1 is widely available, I'm using this wrapper to construct hash maps using the hash_maps distributed with Visual C++ and GCC. I ...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

Vista and Visual Studio, Oil and Water

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So I've installed Vista (Ultimate, in fact), but Visual Studio 2005 seems like a terrible Vista citizen. In order to run it you need to ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

The pleasures of a stable ABI

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As broken as the Win32 API might appear, the thing I really like about it is its stable ABI. That, and the fact that Microsoft spend thousan...
Monday, November 27, 2006

ODE, .NET, handles and references from hell

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I've recently toyed around with .NET in C# and I was excited to see that there are .NET bindings for a lot of free game development libr...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Non-ignorable return codes

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I'd like to have a nonignorable-type that could be used to wrap return values that must be handled, but using an exception would be to h...
Friday, March 17, 2006

Mixing Scheme and C

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In my quest to find the perfect Scheme/C mix I've found that Bigloo Scheme really goes a long way to overcome the language barriers. The...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Reducing boilerplate by embedding XSLT

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I've recently been working on an custom IDL compiler that can target Python and C++. Think COM, only portable between platforms and targ...