http://kevincathey.com Code. Photos. Excerpts from the life of an engineer. Tue, 26 May 2009 00:22:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are writing OpenGL code for OS X and you are using NSOpenGL or CGL (Core OpenGL), you may notice you get frame tearing (meaning you can see the view port updating with the naked eye) even if you are using glutSwapBuffers. The solution is to set a CGL option ... http://kevincathey.com/code/avoiding-opengl-frame-tearing-on-os-x/ If you are trying to install Trac... ... on Apache ... with mod_python ... in a subdirectory of a Wordpress install ... with a virtual host ... then please take a look at these additional directions. The directions I have below are adapted based on those directions found at http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracModPython. Do not setup Trac for Apache ... http://kevincathey.com/code/installing-trac-on-apache-with-mod_python/ I just put up a bunch of pictures from the recent holiday season. It includes: Spending a day with Leslie's family Visiting Lincoln Park Zoo for their Zoo Lights Making a four-course dinner with Leslie for her Christmas present Click on the individual links above or head over to the pictures page. http://kevincathey.com/pictures/new-pictures/ You might have remembered that over the summer, I was very gung-ho about creating an Apollo spacecraft simulator. You also might have wondered what ever happened to that project. Well, do not fret, it is still alive, and will be taking some major shape soon. Next semester, I will be doing ... http://kevincathey.com/technology/apollo-simulation-project-hello-coresimulation/ The other day (meaning like 5 weeks ago) I went and saw Quantum of Solace, the new Bond movie, with my roommates and Will. I was not a big fan of Casino Royale, so to be honest, I was not expecting much. However, I was delightfully surprised to find that ... http://kevincathey.com/movies/movie-review-quantum-of-solace/ I walked into the ACM office today, and on our whiteboard was a list of tattoo ideas. It's a club of nerds (myself definitely included), so the list is quite hilarious: Turnip Tattoo of you getting tattoed USB port Human genome Map of Middle Earth Trogdor Trogdor + 1 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 ... http://kevincathey.com/school/nerd-tattoos/ Two of the coolest things (I think) you can do in OpenGL are vertex and fragment shaders. Unfortunately, however, debugging these things at run time can be quite a pain. Or if you want to see a change you've made in the shader code, you have to recompile your program, ... http://kevincathey.com/school/opengl-on-the-mac-part-2-building-glsl-shaders/ I just put up some pictures from my Fourth of July at the Docters, and also my trip to San Francisco with Dahvede and Christine. Check 'em out! http://kevincathey.com/pictures/more-pictures-up/ Last weekend was my 21st birthday. Leslie gave me one of the sweetest gifts ever: a day of adventures. We went to Shabbona State Park in rural Illinois, went apple picking, and cooked a Japanese meal together. It was quite the day. Check out the pictures here. http://kevincathey.com/pictures/new-pictures-up-2/ For some of you are using Apple's latest Xcode 3.1 tools, you might have realized the shiny new Open Quickly dialog (which kicks some rear). One thing that tripped me up is that it wouldn't work for AppleScript files. Funny, I thought. But then I stumbled upon the AppleScript Studio 1.4 ... http://kevincathey.com/code/xcode-31-open-quickly-and-applescripts/