I got it working a while ago, but I haven’t had a chance to update my eager audience.  I built a simple simple simulation tool using this crazy combination of languages.  It’s a library written in C++ that uses the finite volume method to simulate diffusion in one dimenstion. What’s cool is that it’s designed […]

I spent part of the afternoon wrestling with LAPACK integration in a C++ program, using the unofficial Boost bindings. I learned a couple of interesting things. test.C is a file that demonstrates them. 1. You need to create column-major matrices to pass to LAPACK. The subtle part about this is that the matrices are internally

Today I was reminded again of the need for a new kind of technical drawing software.  Here is the problem I am facing: I want to create a vector drawing of a three dimensional structure.  Right now, I can either create it in CAD and export a bitmap, or I can manually draw a 3-D

I spent today organizing my personal finances in GnuCash. I also spent a few hours customizing a report, which unfortunately means hacking in Scheme, a “dialect” of LISP. Don’t get me wrong, I actually like LISP/Scheme quite a bit. What I don’t like is writing code in “normal” languages, like C++ and Python, all week