Topics pertaining to software and software development, mostly for Microsoft Windows or Linux, and mostly in C or C++.
I’ve often been criticized for “reinventing the wheel” in my programming — creating my own programming components instead of using pre-written ones. Part of that was a deep-seated distrust of the competency of other programmers (something I learned early), and part of it was the fun of doing it myself. But reading some of the …
I just discovered this page. It gives an interesting overview of how popular various programming languages are at present, and some long-term trends. Nice to see that my C and C++ skills are still highly employable.
Geek Drivel has been getting a steady stream of comment spam almost since its inception, but it has really been bombarded with it over the last week or so. Spam Karma 2 does an excellent job of filtering them — in a year and a half, I can count the ones that have gotten through …
It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. — Sally Kempton It’s hardly a secret to anyone who knows me, but I have a confession to make to the rest of the world: I am addicted to developing software. As GoddessJ can attest, if I don’t do some kind of development …
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. The title says it all — I’ve been quite busy for the last couple weeks. For one thing, I’ve been working on my Stack Overflow reputation, with the goal of reaching 2,000 reputation points. Why, you ask? Well, I like explaining things to interested people, and I enjoy …
From the first (and so far only) comment to this Stack Overflow answer: BTW, it’s “complement”, not “compliment”. One’s compliment could be “that’s a nice sign bit you’re wearing today”. – Roddy It’s a computer science thing. 🙂
Stack Overflow, the programmer Q&A site that Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror) have been putting together, finally opened its public beta doors yesterday. I’d been following its development closely through their podcast, and when I came up with an obscure programming problem this morning, I decided to try …
A little while back, I ran across a rant about multithreaded programming on The Register (NSFW due to strong language), which starts out with this paragraph: I don’t know about you, but every time I have to program with threads and shared resources, I want to remove my face incrementally with a salad fork. Locks, …
Everybody and his brother has been nattering on about the newest contender in the Internet browser market, Google Chrome, over the last couple days. ZDNet seems to have wrapped up a lot of the best arguments in two articles: Five reasons Chrome will take over the world, and Five reasons why Chrome will crash and …
LifeHacker.com ran a poll of their readers last week to determine what their “must-have” Firefox extensions are. Surprise, surprise — AdBlock was at the top of the list. LifeHacker is an ad-supported site, so the title for the post reporting the results is no shock. (I don’t see any need to block ads, myself — …