Category: Programming

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...

JavaMacProgramming

Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse

I guess today I've just gotten on to a kick of learning new programming tools and environments. I just did Apple's Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse Tutorial. This tutorial was pretty interesting to me because...

GeneralMacProgramming

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...

PHPProgramming

Featured in an article on CakePHP

The online magazine zZine just published an article on CakePHP that I contributed to. I wrote the "Let's Eat" section, which describes my experiences learning and using CakePHP (a Rails-like framework for PHP) for quickly...

Programming

Web search job openings at Yahoo!

Yahoo! Search has dozens of openings for Engineers and Scientists with significant applicable experience. I've listed many of their openings. (more…)...

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....