Writings

various thought-oriented text products

ARTICLES

— some semi-formal writings on a limited range of subjects

• Understanding Software Engineering Design
• On Naur's ‘Programming As Theory Building’
• Is 'Software Architecture' Really Architecture ?
• A Building Industry Model For Software Development
• Software Architecture And Engineering Definitions
• A Software Engineering Symbol
• Software Engineering And Civil Engineering
• Software Technical Design Guide
• Ruby Speed Guide
• USDP-Distilled eXtreme Documentation
• Open Augmentation Files
• Fast pow() With Adjustable Accuracy
• Octree C++ General Component
• Octree Ruby General Component
• Perceptuum 3 Renderer Architecture
• Copyright Ethics: Arguments Against
• The ethical case against IP (transcription)
• ErgoVim Key Mappings
• Anti-Copyright Summary
• Epub Format Construction Guide
• Genetics Basics For Programmers

NOTES

— some short notes on a limited range of subjects

• A conversational convention for the web
• Why economists like copyright; but shouldn't so much now
• A Comment On: ‘Why writing software is not like engineering’
• Alternatives To Design-Construction-Maintenance
• A Core Of Programming
• Copyright ‘Losses’ And Public Gains
• The ‘Important First’ naming rule for software things
• ‘Getting Things Done’ and software architecture
• (more . . .)

Software

various software projects

RENDERING

— some rendering-related development projects

• MiniLight — a minimal global illumination renderer
  • MiniLight Flex
  • MiniLight Scala code, all on one page
• Perceptuum — a global illumination renderer
  • Images
  • Details
  • Packages
  • Sequences
  • Todo
  • Commentary
  • Scene format description
• Tonemapper — a high-quality HDR image converter
  • Architecture Description
  • Library main header file
• Whitebalancer — image color-cast remover
• C++ Library — a collection of quite reusable graphics-oriented code

TOOLS

— some small software items for use and reuse

• TXON — a minimal format for embedding structured data into text

Other

any other things produced

BUSINESSCARDAHEDRA

— how to build your own business card polyhedra

• Part 2 — the other platonic solids

BOOKS

— fine XHTML web editions of classic literature

• Eckermann ‘Conversations Of Goethe’
• Peacock ‘Headlong Hall’
• Peacock ‘Headlong Hall’ Introduction
• Huysmans ‘Against The Grain’

HERALDRY

— some heraldic and calligraphic work

Background

HOME

— a collection of things produced

ABOUT

— a vague, apocryphal and soi-disant description of the author

• Bibliography (select) — a select bibliography of recommended reads
• Bibliography (complete) [txt]
• Reliquary — some ancient obscure Z80 code
• Links

SITEMAP

— this page