Month: November 2005

Using Bluetooth DUN on my Treo 650 with Mac OS X

I actually set this up a few weeks ago and was meaning to blog about it, but it slipped my mind. Using the info in this article, I was able to set up Bluetooth DUN on my PowerBook so that I can surf the Web using my Treo's...

GeneralProgramming

How to be a programmer

OK, this isn't actually very short, but it does offer a lot of good advice on a diverse range of topics of interest to programmers and managers of programmers: How to be a programmer - by Robert Read...

GeneralProgramming

Eclipse on FreeBSD

OK, I got Eclipse to work on FreeBSD with a bunch of pkg_add voodoo. CDT wouldn't install with pkg_add so I just added http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/new to the update manager in Eclipse and had Eclipse download...

C++GeneralMacProgramming

Messing around with Anjuta and Fink

I had some trouble getting Eclipse working on my FreeBSD box so I started to mess around a bit with Anjuta yesterday - surprisingly nice-looking C/C++ (GNOME-based) IDE. So then I thought I'd install Anjuta on my PowerBook so...

General

Note to self

Do not let this happen again: Went to Pep Boys on Sunday and got a new pair of Futura tires for my fronts....

Books

First, Break All the Rules

I just finished reading "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently" by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. (more…)...

C++GeneralProgramming

libebt: human-readable backtraces for C++

The libebt library provides a clean way of getting human-readable backtrace messages in C++. It uses the RAII (resource acquisition is initialisation) idiom to manage backtrace stack items. libebt is a pure template library, so...