After doing a lot of work with the X-Rite (formerly Gretagmacbeth) i1 (Eye-One) Pro SDK, I've started running into strange little quirks with their close-sourced libraries. The documentation is decent, but severely lacking in crucial areas such as code examples. Several of the functions are vaguely defined with no examples whatsoever. To make matters worse, there is absolutely no developer community since the SDK isn't publicly available.

So if you're running on ...

Just looking through DjangoSites.org and Googling around, I'm absolutely puzzled by the lack of Django-based browser games. It is such an idea platform for developing these, yet there are only a few that are actually open to the public (some of which aren't in English, and are thus inaccessible to me). There seem to be a few games out there in French, Chinese, and some other things I don't really recognize ...

I just thought I'd take a moment to give everyone a heads up that Multi-Model Inheritance fixture dumping and loading is now fixed, as per Russ Magee's changeset 7600. This fixes a subtle problem that some of you may have seen in the form of foreign keys pointing to the wrong objects after using loaddata to restore an app.

The "pk" fields (usually 'id') in the serialized dump weren't being loaded correctly ...

wxJSON 0.3.1 has been released, addressing an issue with wxJSONReader::ReadString(). I haven't had a chance to check the new version out yet, but it's definitely worth grabbing if you're using 0.3.0 or earlier.

Version 0.3.0 of wxJSON has been released. The important feature this brings about is Unicode support (for those who have been waiting for it). From what I can tell, the release doesn't add or improve anything else.

wxJSON is a JSON writer/reader for wxWidgets, a great C++ GUI library. Head over to the wxJSON site for more details.

As promised, I've got an update about the Color Error Threshold Calculator. The utility is now in good enough shape to be posted along with the article about it that I recently finished for our TAGA chapter at Clemson.

For those that have no earthly idea what this is about, the calculator helps educators and industry members determine how much color variance is acceptable for a given color. When trying to reproduce a color ...

During the design phase for a color accuracy management system, my company decided to go with a client-server model rather than individual workstations that are more or less independent. The central server would be responsible for recording readings from the clients and doing various calculations on the data. We wanted most of the calculation to happen server-side in order to keep the clients very simple, and ease of communication from client to server was a ...

In preparation for inclusion in a Clemson GC project, I've brought my Color Error Threshold Calculator over to the new site. This, like my site, will be made available under the GPL once I have a chance to clean it up a little bit. More on this later, but you're welcome to check it out by following the link earlier in the post.