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...
Category: General
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...
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...
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....
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...
Playing with Cocoa, Xcode, and Objective-C
I've been curious about what Mac OS X Cocoa development is like and I've heard some folks say that Xcode is a nice IDE so I decided to play around with it a bit. I went through Apple's Introduction to Cocoa Application Tutorial...
Yahoo! Publisher Networks adds support for ads in RSS
As mentioned in SearchEngineJournal, Yahoo! has announced the availability of ads in syndication (e.g.: RSS, ATOM) feeds for folks who are already signed up for YPN. I'm pretty excited about this, because I worked on the team...