I have to share what happened to me today. But, first, a Meyers’ quote from “Effective STL”: “… in the nearly 30 years I’ve been programming, I’ve never seen anything like STL. You probably haven’t either.” Now my story: I’m developing this app on top of an old DB which is, well, full of data […]
Few words about this year’s SD West conference. The main reason I attended was to hear what Stroustrup and Sutter had to say about C++ future. Naturally, it was mostly about the upcoming C++0x standard. The most important topics were concepts (see this and this paper as well as ConceptGCC compiler implementation) and threading. Closures […]
The only reason I like to travel is being able to read, especially on long flights. So, Charleston, SC – San Jose, CA trip to SD West was a good opportunity to read “Dreaming in Code”. Good book. About OSAF‘s development of a PIM named Chandler. Unfortunately, not comparable with The Soul of a New […]
I got tired of seeing the “Does C++ suck” title. So, I guess it’s time for new blog. I got tired of dumb radio stations on my way to work, too. I also get bored a lot working out in the gym. So, to kill the proverbial birds, I got myself an iPod Shuffle to […]
Here’s a blog on how C++ sucks and committee members are an ignorant bunch having little or no clue what they talk about when it comes to threading. I find it interesting to see over and over how people sharply and firmly focus on a single aspect of [insert your favorite issue here, from Iraq […]
In the last Information Week issue, there is an article by Charles Babcock on the topic of open source and its feasibility for companies. Here’s Babcock’s classification of a succesful OS project: A thriving community A handful of lead developers, a large body of contributors, and a substantial–or at least motivated–user group offering ideas. Disruptive […]
Prompted by Kai Londenberg’s post, I’ve decided to actually sit down and read Terence Parr’s papers. As we all know, the MVC pattern is a classic, right? According to Parr’s articles, a vast majority of the modern incarnations claiming to be designed after it are actually blatantly violating it. In his paper, he fails to […]
If you ever have to code C# in exchange for food and shelter, the free C# book for C++ programmers from Charles Petzold may come handy ;-). Seriously now, I did not read the whole thing, but it looks like a decent introduction text, it’s free and it comes from the author with good reputation, […]
So, finally, I have delivered. Something. Don’t get me wrong, the thing runs, but there’s more to do before a release. There’s a TODO list here. Briefly, here are the issues: – I am not sure what exactly to do with Attributes and they are all over the original Java API, so I have improvised […]
Inspired by Christmas spirit and Paschal’s threat to go Java, I have actually forced myself to put in some work into servlet container today and align it with the Poco (I still had ancient namespace macros in code). I hope to have SF project and code out some time next week. I’m still undecided on […]