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Configuration to Go

One of the boilerplate tasks for nearly every (application development) project is the implementation of an application configuration management. In most cases, applications have …

Posted by daemotron on Sat, Apr 6, 2024

Elegant Python Exceptions

Particularly when creating library packages in Python, raising exceptions is a great way to let the downstream developer know about problems occuring while executing code from …

Posted by daemotron on Tue, Oct 31, 2023

Dataref Caching Revisited

Earlier this year I wrote about caching datarefs. Back then we only looked at caching single datarefs, which quickly leads to bloated code once applied in a wider context. So here …

Posted by daemotron on Wed, Sep 27, 2023

Configuration File with XPPL

In this blog post we’re looking into using XPPL to enhance a plugin with a configuration file. Working with XPPL’s configuration module is follows this five-step …

Posted by daemotron on Sat, Sep 23, 2023

Introducing XPPL

Are you tired of (re-)writing the same boilerplace code for every X-Plane plugin project — over and over again? Well, at least that’s how I felt when I started my …

Posted by daemotron on Fri, Sep 22, 2023