Posts tagged C

We finally managed to finish a project we’ve been busy working on during the last weeks. It is so great as stand-alone *NIX command line utility and it will also be an important part of my upcoming AnsiLove.framework release 2.0. Feel free to try, investigate, fork, improve, whatever. We released it under a MIT-style license. Like it’s PHP ancestor, AnsiLove/C will convert ANSi and artscene related file formats into beautiful PNG images. But this time, our goals were evolution, portability, performance and the most accurate rendering of all known ANSi art file types to date. Needless to say we achieved them all. At this point I’d like to thank my friends Frederic Cambus and Brian Cassidy for their ongoing support. Without you, AnsiLove/C would never have been possible. This project grew so fast because we loved what we did. Pour la legende! AnsiLove/C - ANSi / ASCII art to PNG converter in C

We finally managed to finish a project we’ve been busy working on during the last weeks. It is so great as stand-alone *NIX command line utility and it will also be an important part of my upcoming AnsiLove.framework release 2.0. Feel free to try, investigate, fork, improve, whatever. We released it under a MIT-style license. Like it’s PHP ancestor, AnsiLove/C will convert ANSi and artscene related file formats into beautiful PNG images. But this time, our goals were evolution, portability, performance and the most accurate rendering of all known ANSi art file types to date. Needless to say we achieved them all. At this point I’d like to thank my friends Frederic Cambus and Brian Cassidy for their ongoing support. Without you, AnsiLove/C would never have been possible. This project grew so fast because we loved what we did. Pour la legende!

AnsiLove/C - ANSi / ASCII art to PNG converter in C

The Illusion of Progress

Take my hand and let us dive into the wonderful world of my current projects. Take a brief glimpse on the wonders at your feet.

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Farewell, Dennis Ritchie

He was father of the C programming language and without him there would be no UNIX. His pioneering work paved the way for many modern programming / scripting languages like Objective-C, C#, Perl, Java, Go, JavaScript and PHP. Entire operating systems are written in C or build upon the UNIX legacy, most notably BSD and hence Mac OS X. Farewell, Dennis Ritchie… may you rest in peace.

Great things to come

Right now I’m busy developing a new Parcel Calculator release (which actually incorporates tons of cool features) but I am also gathering information for some new tutorials. One will explain how to write a command line utility in portable C and the usage of Mac OS X as cross-compilation platform, I mentioned this in an earlier post. There are some great things on the way, can you feel it in the air?

pcp (Parcel Calculator Portable)

I was gathering information for a “Portability and Cross-Compilation under Mac OS X” tutorial when I came to the conclusion to create a portable version of my Objective-C / Cocoa project Parcel Calculator. Nothing bloated, just a command line utility providing Parcel Calculator’s most common features to users of other platforms than Mac OS X. I decided to use C syntax for this purpose. C is still one of the most popular programming languages and there are very few computer architectures without a C compiler. A standards-compliant and portably written C program can be compiled for a very wide variety of platforms and operating systems with little or no change to it’s source code. So the idea behind was to implement as much portable C programming knowledge as possible to the project’s codebase while keeping it simple and understandable.

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switchtemp.c

Template for a switchable command line utility, written in portable C. Various flags already set, for example -v for version output. Special feature is a customizable switch counter that limits the amount of processed arguments. On this page you will always find the latest variant, code is maintained at GitHub.

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ptarget.h

Portable C header for embedding in your own projects. Aims to detect major operating systems and compilers. Detections works properly with cross-compilers. On this page you will always find the latest variant, code is maintained at GitHub.

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