I realized that CRY did not have a CMake based install option, so including it in a GEANT4 cmake project might not be obvious. This is how you would do it in your CMakeLists.txt:

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Note: There is a better way to do this described here.

If you’ve ever tried apt-get or brew to try to install gtest, you are probably familiar with the fact that gtest is not “recommend” for global install on your system. As an alternative, the recommendation is that you make it part of your project. The process for making gtest part of your project, however, is not well documented, at least for modern git projects. What follows is the procedure I used to do so.

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Slots seem to be poorly documented. What they do is simple, but whether they are used is tricky. This is a little mini-post on slots.

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This is a quick tutorial over the basics of what metaclasses do.

The Metaclass

Metaclasses, while seemingly a complex topic, really just do something very simple. They control what happens when you have code that turns into a class object. The normal place they are executed is right after the class statement. Let’s see that in action by using print as our metaclass.

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I haven’t seen a great deal of practical documentation about using classmethods as factories in Python (which is arguably the most important use of a classmethod, IMO). This post hopes to fill in that gap.

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I recently decided to try my hand at making an auto-load extension for Python and Plumbum. I was planning to suggest it as a new feature, then I thought it might be an experimental feature, and now it’s just a blog post. But it was an interesting idea and didn’t seem to be well documented process on the web. So, here it is. The plan was to make commands like this: [Read More]