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Category Archives: Software Development
Link of the Day
In the past couple of days, I’ve been reading through a great interview that Artima Developer held with Guido Van Rossum in 2002 about Python. I would highly recommend this interview to anyone either interested in software development, or the … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Software Development
Tagged Artima Developer, Guido Van Rossum, Python
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QOTD: Real Software Quality
I came across this quote from Linus Torvalds today that really struck a cord with me: “Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they’re involved and taking it personally,” – Linus Torvalds, … Continue reading
Advanced Bash Redirection + Logging
Just the other day I came across a great post by Travis B. Hartwell regarding how to redirect stdout to stderr to a file while still displaying that output. Not only does he show how it could be done, he goes through … Continue reading
Posted in Software Development
Tagged Bash, Logging, Redirection, STDERR, STDOUT, Travis B. Hartwell
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Stackoverflow.com – Knowledge Sharing on Steroids
While I do feel that I have learned a great deal in the past three years as a software engineer, there’s still much more for me to learn. One blog to that I read on a very regular basis is … Continue reading
University Study: Most Users Don’t Pay Attention To Dialogs
OK, I’m definitely being nicer with my title than Arstechnica’s Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots. Regardless of the title, the study about user responses to error or warning dialog boxes is quite interesting. In the study, conducted by … Continue reading
QOTD: Software Development Experts
If I’ve learned anything in my career, it is that approaching software development as an expert, as someone who has already discovered everything there is to know about a given topic, is the one surest way to fail. – Jeff … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Quote, Software Development
Tagged Knowledge, Quote of the Day, Software Engineering
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C++ Namespace Alias
The other day, while I was reading up on Boost and TR1, I ran across an interesting feature called a namespace alias. With a namespace alias, you essentially call out a new namespace that will reference back to the one … Continue reading
Posted in General, Software Development
Tagged Boost, Boost::Filesystem, C++, Namespace Alias
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QT 4.3.4
Earlier this morning, Trolltech release version 4.3.4 of their QT development solutions. From trolltech.com: Qt includes bug fixes made since the release of version 4.3.3 in December 2007. In addition to professional support, Trolltech commercial license holders receive regular releases … Continue reading
Perl Tip Of The Day: “uniq” an Array
I can across a great snippet of code, posted on DZone, that provides a two line solution to uniq an array while maintaining order: # Input: @list # Output: @uniqed my %seen; my @uniqed = grep !$seen{$_}++, @list; #From … Continue reading