Just made a quick update to the Lexicon page. In a nutshell, it turns out that you can animate PerspectiveCameras in exactly the same way as Model3Ds, because they support a Transform property. I haven’t had a chance to play with it properly yet, but it means no more fiddling with Vector3DAnimations to change LookDirection any more. Woohoo!
Oh, and it looks like the same applies to Lights. More Woohoo!
Listening To Reason: First Impressions of L#
This looks really fun. One of the main issues I’ve had with Lisp in the past is that the libraries seem to be completely foreign. With a well-known and understandable library behind it, L# could well be the answer to that. Shame it doesn’t compile, though…
Refactoring is one of those areas that those people with Big Flashy IDEs like to complain has very little support in Ruby. To a large degree, there’s truth in that – Ruby’s syntax is complex, and its dynamism means that there are some things that you just can’t predict at writing time, so doing things like method renaming is really quite difficult. So, what to do? Changing things to make their names more accurately reflect their function is a fairly critical refactoring operation. Well, if we can’t do it at write time, how about runtime?
Ok, this is just frightening. For starters, to clear up any confusion, it’s not my site. Other than that, the similarities between me and this guy are astonishing. We both live in London. We both do web dev work. We’re both into Ruby and/on Rails, and dig the whole community-centric Web 2.0 push. We have similar tastes in music, and this page is probably more info than I would possibly have taken away from a conference I really wanted to go to, but couldn’t.
That is all somehow overshadowed by the fact that he’s got the same damn name as me. We should meet up, so that the universe can implode, or something.