Topics pertaining to software and software development, mostly for Microsoft Windows or Linux, and mostly in C or C++.
As a rule, I don’t put profanity in code comments. It’s unprofessional, if occasionally tempting in the extreme — especially after spending eight hours trying to work around an API or operating system bug to get your widget working on that last 5% of machines, only to find that it still fails. Apparently a lot …
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Although this is an interesting article to me, it would probably bore just about everyone else to tears. The only thing that might mildly interest some people is the coining of a new (to me) word in the last sentence: […] With the pressure off, Siemens is incented to deal with the PR problem and …
I’ve mentioned a couple times before that I used KeePassX, the unofficial Linux port of the highly-thought-of KeePass Password Safe. A few months ago I decided that I’d gotten tired of using it… KeePassX had only basic password management features, it lacked most of the nice features that I heard KeePass had, like automatically and …
After seeing reviews like these for the new version of Ubuntu, I was a bit apprehensive about upgrading. But as usual and despite my attempts to wait, I did so anyway, several days ago. I figured they couldn’t have screwed up the GNOME interface too much, and no matter how bad the new Unity interface …
VMware Fusion 3 is a great piece of software, but it has some very annoying quirks. My Linux virtual machine was getting some very annoying delays at times that it shouldn’t have. Compiling a fairly small project resulted in a ridiculous amount of “iowait” time. Even switching folders in my current e-mail program could take …
Interesting. And true, too… I taught myself to get to sleep very easily in my early twenties (I might write more about that if people are curious), but while running my previous business, there were a couple run-ins with malicious hackers that screwed up my sleep patterns immensely… I could still get to sleep, but …
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After three months of near-silence, I’m back. Project M is nearly ready for beta (six months of work so far, and it’s still not quite usable… sheesh!), so I think I can spare the time to blog again. I may not write daily for a bit, but I’ll try. The first thing I’d like to …
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I intend to return to daily blogging within a few weeks, but I’m going to surface temporarily to talk about programming tools. It didn’t take long, working on Project M, before I realized that my software development tools needed an upgrade. First off, bug-tracking software. I didn’t have any. With Project Badger, I needed it, …
I’m busy, so I shouldn’t be writing this, but it’s so funny I can’t avoid it. I got a call about an hour ago. The caller ID said “Unknown Name, Unknown Number.” Background noise of a busy call center, so I’m thinking a survey or a telemarketer. A survey I’ll just politely decline to take. …
…so busy, in fact, that I’ve decided to take a blogging hiatus. I’ve written a post a day for nearly two years straight, missing only a handful of days. I like that pace, and I plan to resume it, but not until I’ve got the bulk of Project M finished. That may be a few …