The Hacks of Life

In moving the X-Plane SDK Wiki to MediaWiki I had to use mod_rewrite. Getting this right took me a few tries.  This is what I ended up with:...

The X-Plane Wiki is powered by MediaWiki .  I have mixed opinions about this, but I think it was the right decision.  The one part of Media...

Sometimes you get really lucky and a library has a routine that just does exactly what you want. I got lucky the other day, thanks to this f...

The X-Plane scenery tools use CGAL as a base library for most geometry calculations.  This post attempts to explain the situation. For The I...

Well, its memory management policy is, at least. If you are like me (a C/C++ programmer who has to write small amounts of Objective C for a ...

It turns out you can build an OS X 10.4 compatible application using GCC 4.2.  The trick is: you need to install GCC 4.2 Developer Preview 1...

I'm going to start blogging about the X-Plane Scenery Tools code tree here...the source code is too technical of a subject for my scene...