CPUID for MacOS
This is a little old, but I wanted to share the link any for those looking for CPUID on the MacOS; download-maccpuid/
Coding
Converting ASCII to HEX and vice-versa
I created a Dashboard Widget to convert ASCII characters to HEX. The Widget uses Javascript code created by Derek Buitenhuis, whose code is featured on java2s.com Here is the Widget and Dashcode project available for download: ASCII to HEX Widget for Mac OS X ASCII to HEX Widget Dashcode Project
“Selectively Disable Warnings” with clang
I saw this demo done at WWDC on how to turn off warnings, only when truly warranted, while compiling with clang: #if defined (__clang__) #pragma clang diagnostic push #pragma clang diagnostic ignored “-Wunused-value” #endif // defined __clang__ void ImAUselessLittleFunction ( int pleaseUseMe ) { pleaseUseMe; // Nope, you are not going to be used } … Read more
Enabling PHP5 on Mac OS X
Thanks to foundationphp.com for this tutorial!
Pinching an inch off of code-bloat
Here is a tool that looks quite interesting: SymbolSort
LLVM + Visual Studio = :)
What!? LLVM is available for Visual Studio? http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStartedVS.html
GoingNative 2012
Last week I was fortunate to attend the GoingNative 2012 seminar hosted at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu, Stephan T. Lavavej, Chandler Carruth, Hans Boehm, and Andrew Sutton gave presentations at this seminar. If you don’t know who they are, you can easily look them up since they are all very … Read more
Detecting clang or llvm in Xcode 4.2
Use either __clang__ or __llvm__ defines. More information can be found at stackoverflow
Productivity Power Tools by Microsoft
Microsoft has a plug-in for Visual Studio that adds a lot of nice little features that I never realized I needed… like triple clicking to select a whole line.
Cyclomatic Complexity
I was introduced to Cyclomatic Complexity at Eric Rimbley’s course at Construx; I was facinated with the topic and found a tool that works with Visual Studio 2010 that gathers this metric: http://www.blunck.info/ccm.html