Topics pertaining to software and software development, mostly for Microsoft Windows or Linux, and mostly in C or C++.
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language I’ve been doing software development for twenty-five years as a hobby, and the last nine commercially as …
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There’s a neat article in National Geographic on how “swarm theory” can be used to solve real-world problems. The short Boing Boing excerpt is worth a read if you’re at all interested in software development or intelligence research.
Microsoft has really been spinning it’s wheels for the last six or seven years. With the exception of improving security, nearly everything it has done since Windows 2000 has been focused on sizzle rather than steak. The same operating system with prettier pictures. You can see it in the whole user interface, and you can …
I use JP Software’s 4NT, a wonderful and much-improved command shell (it replaces Windows’ CMD.EXE). JP Software released a major version of it about six or seven months ago, and there have been about a dozen minor updates since. Unfortunately, they don’t have any way to automatically check when these updates come out… you have …