WHEN BEGINNING C++ programming I’ve experienced people to have trouble remembering the correct construction and destruction call order. Personally I conquered this using a common memory technique – creating a story. Here are two stories that might help in remembering. Read more…
CIRCUIT DE SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS is a famous Formula 1 track in Belgium, and this year I, along with two of my Formula 1 enthusiast friends, spend three days watching the race from the the Silver tribune. One spectacular section on the Read more…
AFTER SOME TIME of using tarballing as a source revision control system, I thought it was about time getting back to using a real tool for managing my source code. I’ve then used Perforce as my VCS for some time Read more…
SOURCE CODE COLORING in WordPress is thankfully a pretty simple task, thanks to the WordPress plugin system. This allows for installing filters to do the coloring and formatting automatic. Several plugins exists for WordPress to do source code coloring, but Read more…
AT MY DAILY work we use MIB’s extensively for product configurations. This often brings up the need to recreate a certain configuration sequence. If the scequence is not included in the normal test suite, and the sequence is more that Read more…
REPLACEMENT NEW CAME to mind, when working on a C++ project of mine. In this project some large objects of short lifetime led to a concerns about memory fragmentation on the targeted embedded platform that have only sparse memory ressources. Read more…
DON’T HAVE A cow man. Well I got one. I was given a Stribed Cow of the CowParade brand. At first one might get put off by this odd looking cow which is obviously contrary to the ways of nature Read more…
I BOUGHT THIS book as a supplement to Programming in Lua, second edition in hope of getting things explained with more practical examples. Thankfully this is also the case for this book. There are many programming samples in this book Read more…
THIS BOOK IS indispensable when it comes to Lua programming. It is written with great insight of the Lua language and its history (not surprisingly as it’s written by the creators for the official Lua implementation). The book starts of Read more…
SO DID YOU get any hacking done this summer? I certainly did! I spent a hole week of my summer vacation attending the geek camp TheCamp (Danish). Along with roughly twenty of the forty participants, this was the first time Read more…