Recent blog entries for tflynn

Decided to add another entry before I reached 12 months without a post :-)

Updated OpenVRML from CVS tonight (when the SourceForge get so slow?) for the first time in 2 months. Just don't have the time anymore to do much development on it as work and life has me really busy. Not sure how interested I am in VRML now anyway...the new spec is out now and I have absolutely no interest in working with it :-(

On the plus side, I have learned a lot recently and have been introduced to the joys of Ant...

Been quite a while since my last post so time for a quick update.
I've finished running both OpenVRML and FreeWRL through the NIST conformance tests and it turns out they're both still a long way from being close to conformant.

If anyone's interested, here are the full results for OpenVRML and for FreeWRL.

Besides that, I haven't really made any significant code contributions in quite a long time. Between work, moving to a new apartment and my girlfriend, I just haven't had the free time...

I've been nominated to be the maintainer for the *lookat (xm, gtk and qt) sample programs that use the OpenVRML library. (mainly because no else stepped forward)

Decided the first thing that should be done for each is to make a quick release that brings each viewer up to date with the 0.11.2 release of OpenVRML. I released new versions of GtkLookat and XmLookat earlier this week and hope to get QtLookat out the door early next week (with lots of help from others).

Life is good right now...girlfriend has moved in...moving to a new apartment soon...still employed :-)

If only my investments weren't completely tanking...damn stock market!

Got my mark back for the CSC today. 83.5% overall! Not too bad considering that studying has been pretty low on my priority list.

I've gotten pretty deep into the Meyers (Effective C++ & Effective STL) books over the last few weeks. I'd highly recommend these to anyone. Filled with great tips for C++ coders.

Getting pretty excited about the NHL playoffs. Hopefully the Oilers will make it so I'll have someone to cheer for.

Woohoo! Just submitted my CSC assignment by email with 18 hours to spare! Definitely should not have left that until the last minute but it's done now and I'm sure I did enough to get a passing grade...

I'm going to try to get back to working on OpenVRML this week. Very interested to see how Braden's rearchitecture work is coming along and want to get back at the ScriptJDK code among other things.

CANADA! CANADA! CANADA!
Damn I love hockey...

Not going to get much of anything done for the next couple of weeks as I'm trying to finish the assignment for the Canadian Securities Course. Waited way to long to get started and now I've only got three weeks to finish it...

Slowly getting started on the conformance testing, updated results can be found here.
Not really surprised, but FreeWRL is much slower than OpenVRML when parsing larger worlds. ~3M PixelTexture world took more than 5 minutes to load in FreeWRL compared to less than a minute in OpenVRML. FreeWRL does have some pretty cool features though...

Work is a little crazy right now so I've been unable to devote much time working on OpenVRML lately.

With what little time I've had, I've been finishing up the JSAI code and trying to get us passing the conformance tests. Having some problems with SFNode right now but the rest of the SF* fields should work now.

I've also started running the NIST VTS against each of the open-source VRML browsers. I'll post a URL when I get a chance to put the page up. Initially I plan on concentrating on re-testing OpenVRML and testing FreeWRL (and possibly Tidarque)