the corner office : tech blog

a tech blog, by Colin Pretorius

All in one

Stumbled across this - a way around what is (to me) the biggest frustration when working with C++ after the convenience of Java: Java Style Classes in C++.

Of course, another way to marry Java and C++ is C#, but that's another story.

{2008.03.27 00:08}

libcurl

My first attempts at using a pre-built libcurl with Eclipse CDT and mingw weren't too successful - too many obscure dependencies. An easier way to get started is with a minimal version of libcurl, to which end this blog post is pretty useful: Quickstart: libcurl and mingw (plain http)

{2008.03.23 00:58}

log4j

Some logging links...

{2008.02.14 11:40}

2008.02.08

TSS: Why Should You Care About MapReduce?

{2008.02.09 00:10}

2008.01.13

Not yet, but something I plan to do soon...

{2008.01.13 13:06}

So long, Netscape

End of an era: Netscape Navigator finally dies. (via BBC news)

{2007.12.29 00:57}

2007.11.08

Http-https transitions and relative URLs (Ned Batchelder). A relative URL can include a host name, so //thecorneroffice.org/something is a valid relative URL. Just what you need to avoid, say, http/https mismatches.

{2007.11.08 21:30}

2007.11.04

{2007.11.04 09:19}

2007.10.18

{2007.10.18 04:58}

2007.10.11

Artima: Michael Hobbs: Namespacey Programming:

The textbook definition of OOP is that it provides encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. But taking away the big polysyllabic words, what is the essential value that OOP provides? It turns out that at its basic quantum level, an object is just a namespace

Interesting viewpoint.

{2007.10.11 22:44}

« Older | Newer »