You should catch errors but be very careful about swallowing it and not re-throwing the exception. I have seen this in certain projects where exceptions are swallowed and the developer of the offending code never even knows that this happened. So months can go by without any testing, you are doing early testing … right?!… … Read more
Recently, I was looking at a bug report for an error that would only happen on one operating system. When I looked at the code… I had wondered why no one called this one out: char buffer[128] = {0}; // Some code here memcpy ( buffer, another_buffer, 128 ); // Some more code free (buffer); … Read more
Thanks to my co-worker who pointed me to a really cool utility that uses rsync to provide TimeMachine-like backups. The utility is called rsnapshot and is based “on an article called Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync, by Mike Rubel”.
I’m a fan of Herb Sutter’s books and articles. Now that he is coming out with a new book, “Effective Concurrency”, I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
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For the past 3 1/2 years, I have used Xcode almost solely for my development work, but, recently, I have switched over to Visual Studio to use some of the nifty tools that Intel has for performance profiling. The folks over at Microsoft have some nifty bloggers and one of them have this cool chart … Read more
This is one of those things that has been really bugging me. I know it bugs other people but they have given up trying to figure out a solution. I have to hand it to the nikonians for showing me how to stop this problem on my computer. This trick may or may not work … Read more
I recently fell in love with TextMate. For me, programming 24/7, TextMate helps me edit files that would normally be a pain with the standard editors on the market. Now, with that being said, I started making a lot of Bash shell scripts to automate building projects with Xcode and delivering the binaries for testing. … Read more
This is something that is really easy to do in Important: FreeBSD features the growfs(8) command, which makes it possible to increase the size of file system on the fly, removing this limitation. Reference http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html
Last night I put a HP 5MP printer on my curb. My town now has curb-side e-cycling pickup service, which means not having to drive down to some parking field and waiting on a really long line to get rid of some old computer stuff… When I looked at that printer, it reminded me of … Read more