Category: C++

GSK – A C library for writing clients and servers

A GLib-style C library for writing network clients and servers. Abstracts out sockets and event handling (select(), poll(), /dev/epoll, kqueue(), etc.) http://gsk.sourceforge.net/gsk-reference/...

BooksC++Programming

Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost

I just finished reading Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost. A really interesting read. Some of the more interesting things that I picked up: boost::shared_ptr - like auto_ptr on steroids, a very nice...

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...

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...

C++Programming

Exceptions vs. status codes

Here's a great post about exceptions vs. status codes. The author is very much in the exception camp but he cites a Joel on Software post that argues against exceptions and there is some interesting discussion in the comments....

C++JavaProgramming

This is why C++ templates are evil

stlfilt helps, but it doesn't always save you from template hell. comaofferimagegeneratorlib.cpp:149: cannot convert `it.Mdbm::iterator::operator ->()-> pair::second' from type `Mdbm::data_type' to type `ImageData *' It's not...

bashC++Programming

Nice little bash function for determining the meaning of error codes

Here's a cool idea from Deadman.org | Advancing in the Bash shell: (more…)...