The lone C++ coder's blog - Comments

Mark Turney: A neater way of handling common exceptions

nospam@example.com (Mark Turney) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:05:19 +0000

This looks like a great solution to the problem of duplicated exception handling code. Thanks for the technique Timo!

Ben Craig: A neater way of handling common exceptions

nospam@example.com (Ben Craig) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:04:41 +0000

Careful with that pattern. On Windows (and probably other OS's), exception information is stored on the stack. Each time you rethrow an exception, your stack grows a fair amount. If you rethrow too many times, you will blow your stack.

Len Holgate: Some clarifications regarding last week's anti-VC6 rant

nospam@example.com (Len Holgate) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:24:54 +0100

I agree that for a new development project for a single client I'd be asking serious questions if they were insisting on VC6 rather than VS2008. In fact I went as far as collecting a selection of reasons why it's a bad choice using this Stack Overflow question. But, if you need to support a large number of clients with a common code base then sometimes you're forced to support older compilers; I would imagine this is even worse when you add in cross platform support. Luckily there doesn't seem to be the same draw for people to stay with VS.Net and VS.Net 2003 as there was for people to stay with VC6 (at least not amongst my clients, they now tend to be VS2005 or VS2005 AND VS2008), so I expect the situation will improve over time rather than us having the same discussion in 10 years about VS2005... Even Microsoft recognise this effect; dubbing VS2010 the "new 6"...

Alex Ott: Paul Graham on the effect of disruptions to programmer productivity

nospam@example.com (Alex Ott) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:11:49 +0100

Yes, interruption - is very bad things. I hate, when people wandering in office, speaking loudly, etc. This week, half of our team is on vacation, and I spend my time in silence, producing numerous amount of code, only because i can simply think without any interruption

George: Emacs lisp packages under version control

nospam@example.com (George) — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:53:55 +0100

Nice. It would be nice if you'd group them by categories (like C++, blogging, python, etc).

Timo Geusch: Emacs lisp packages under version control

nospam@example.com (Timo Geusch) — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:15:58 +0100

That's a good idea, I'll include that in the post I'm planning to make once I've worked out how to get the main configuration files like .emacs and .gnus.el under version control the way I want to.

George: Emacs lisp packages under version control

nospam@example.com (George) — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:17:11 +0100

How about sharing a list of emacs packages you're using? I'm always up for increasing my productivity.

Ben: Good article for CEDET beginners like me

nospam@example.com (Ben) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:26:44 +0000

As someone who has always wanted to try CEDET but has always been too lazy to read the docs, thanks!

Timo Geusch: Two more useful emacs modes

nospam@example.com (Timo Geusch) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:42:35 +0000

Alex, thanks for the link - sounds very interesting. i'll have a look at the article later today!

Alex Ott: Two more useful emacs modes

nospam@example.com (Alex Ott) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:35:40 +0000

I just uploaded a new article about Cedet's customization - http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html I think, that it could be interested to you

Kevin Godden: The demise of Dr Dobbs Journal - hopefully exaggerated

nospam@example.com (Kevin Godden) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:16:26 +0000

DDJ is a very good journal, will be sorry to see it go. Must say though that betimes some of the articles were way over my head! I don't think I will be looking in too often on the online journal, I find the DDJ website horrendous!! I always had a fancy to try and get an article published in the DDJ, I had in mind an article about the use of Prolog in a practical setting, needless to say I never quit got around to it

CodersTalk: Two more useful emacs modes

nospam@example.com (CodersTalk) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:39:34 +0000

Hi, I would like to try CEDET. Anyway, thanks for sharing!!

Eric: Two more useful emacs modes

nospam@example.com (Eric) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:42:51 +0000

If you like which-func-mode, you might want to also like global-semantic-stickyfunc-mode . It is similar to which-func-mode, but uses the header line, and shows the first line of the function chopped off on the top of the window.

Timo Geusch: Speeding up Visual C++ compilation by cleaning up the include paths

nospam@example.com (Timo Geusch) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:32:20 +0000

I was quite surprised that it would be that much of a speed-up I'm certainly pleased with that. Unfortunately I'm still testing the changes - the project is cross-platform and the build structure on one of the other platforms is slightly different to the one on Windows, which leads to all manner of interesting problems. Plus, the Windows part is a subset of the overall build as a few server components aren't being built on Windows, so there are a few more hoops for me to jump through before the whole set of changes can be merged back into the main development branch. Due to the size of the project, we are talking several thousand files being touched so you're not far off with your estimate of millions of changes. This makes it a lot harder to make a sweeping change like this but I think it would be worthwhile in the long run.

Kevin Godden: Speeding up Visual C++ compilation by cleaning up the include paths

nospam@example.com (Kevin Godden) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:41:28 +0000

That's quite a speed up for sure ~50%! It sounds well worth the effort of making the changes, although I assume that theire millions of them to be made - hence the script. Have you made the changes to the mainline project yet, or are you still testing?