Author Archives: James McParlane

About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

Shhh – Busy Thinking

Posted on January 19, 2005 by James McParlane

Painted a shed. Thinking about current step in parser code. In a non coding mood – nesting with real world things. Wired up my old keyboard amp to sit under the desk and act as a subwoofer. Reading a good … Continue reading →

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Cool New Things

Posted on January 19, 2005 by James McParlane

http://www.mfeeds.com/ Translates web pages into RSS feeds http://www.orb.com/ Real-time streaming and transcoding from Media Center PC to portable devices. http://www.feederreader.com/ Podcast application for Pocket PC

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The Accelerated Men

Posted on January 18, 2005 by James McParlane

Strange to see my old band still has a strange cult following. We are listed first in the “The Gothic Music Handbook” An accident of name I know – but we are chuffed. And one track that everyone loved was still being … Continue reading →

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New (Old) 21" Monitor And New Test Cases

Posted on January 13, 2005 by James McParlane

I am now dual headed. We will see how it goes. I have the G4 and PC second display on the second monitor. The G4 stays up as long as I don’t move much. (Long Story) Testing all the basic … Continue reading →

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Merge At End Of A Lexical Sequence

Posted on January 11, 2005 by James McParlane

The million dollar question is… Should a construction which consists of a simple option like “ABBB” | “CBBB” have a parse table that compresses and merges the last sequence of states into common groups? http://www.metawrap.com/tests/dot/test12.png In the same way that the start sequence … Continue reading →

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I Have Joined Fumbling Hordes Of The Self-Inflicted Legally Deaf

Posted on January 11, 2005 by James McParlane

Everyone at Massive has been given an iPod-Mini for Xmas. Now I walk the streets, legally deaf, a peril to those around me I fumble at the traffic buttons waiting for the reassuring vibrations before I fling myself before the … Continue reading →

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Back from holidays….

Posted on January 10, 2005 by James McParlane

Back to the big city – should start coding again in a few days…

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Complexity Management And Temporal Pricing

Posted on November 10, 2004 by James McParlane

Saw a great talk (by Mark Pesce at XmediaLab ) on the future of digital media distribution. He talked about what we like to call “network optomisation” when pitching this kind of distribution medium to clients, AKA “peer to peer” (p2p) networking … Continue reading →

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Semaphore vs Monitor

Posted on November 9, 2004 by James McParlane

Trying to decide what kind of counting syncronisation object I should use for my buffer polling expansion to the CNI (see two posts down).In my travels I found a lively and mostly misguided debate of monitors vs semaphores so decided to … Continue reading →

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Parsers Progress

Posted on November 4, 2004 by James McParlane

http://www.metawrap.com/tests/dot/test9.png Minimal testcase for simplest production I could think of – with an at that un unhandled visitor type. (now implemented of course). The wonderful thing about applying such a complicated visitor pattern to this type of problem is that even though the first type … Continue reading →