In the course of the day, I actually open several web pages related to the work I do. The browser, for better or for worse, has become part of my workflow. After a while, it can get annoying to constantly have to log in to separate pages to see all of the data I need … Read more
FreeBSD is an awesome operating system, but if your machine is set up like mine… the drives spin all the time and can actually suck up some juice. A month later, opening the electric bill made my eyes open wider than they usually do at a bill when I see the bigger bill. Okay. I … Read more
I was having a nice coding day. Xcode was behaving nicely and all of my code seem to behave like I wanted to … then … Crash. Okay. I can handle a crash. But. Looking at the call stack from the crash, something didn’t look right. In the call stack there was a reference to … Read more
One of the cool things about Xcode and GDB is that you can create custom breakpoints that could be set up by calling a function within your own project. GDB supports C functionality in their conditional checks, but for me, I found this functionality to be particularly helpful when paired with convenience variables. So, let’s … Read more
I recently had to build a file for multiple operating systems and had to figure out a way to enable a feature that is only available on Mac OS X 10.5 and greater, and Windows. Here’s how I did it: #if (MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5) || defined (_WIN32) #include #endif Now, technically there is no harm … Read more
I just saw “The Social Network” with my wife. I liked the movie and so did my lady. A couple of things I came away with after the movie: 1. I remember why I became a programmer: because it’s cool 😉 No, that’s not being sarcastic. 2. My didn’t my college have programming drinking games. … Read more
If you ever have to get greater detail as to what is going on with the compiler or linker in Visual Studio, you can “crank up” the verbosity in the IDE’s options: crank-it-up! In case the link above dies, you “go into the Tools->Options menu, and go to Projects and Solutions->Build and Run and change … Read more
When you actually have a good idea for a posting, don’t wait till the next day to start writing it… since by then, you will probably forget what you wanted to write about to begin with.
I had a weird thing happen where if I create a TCHAR variable[MAX_PATH] and populate that using any Win32 function, then take that variable and memcpy it into a const char * that has been new’d, I get a HEAP corruption message when I call delete[] on the const char *. Now the funny thing … Read more
Windows Vista doesn’t play well with KVM’s when your screensaver locks out your computer and it’s not the currently selected computer…