I’ve decided to write a series of posts on what I call “The C++ Way” analogous to “The Ruby Way,” a book and philosophy of the Ruby Language. After programming in C++ for years, I still struggle to think in C++. I constantly ask myself “what would Bjarne (Stroustroup) do (WWBD)?” when attacking a programming… Continue reading The C++ Way. Part 0.
Category: Computers & Software
Testing Emacs Weblogger Mode
I installed WebloggerMode into Emacs 23.1 and am testing it out. Yes, right here, live! Typing text into Emacs, even some simple HTML is much faster and more fun than typing into the Wordpress text editor. I’ve got all my memorized shortcuts in Emacs to create my text. Supposedly I can post and publish my… Continue reading Testing Emacs Weblogger Mode
What's Happened To The Bookstores?
If you are a bookstore aficionado you can’t have avoided noticing how they have deteriorated over the last ten years. Fewer books, less variety, more open spaces and chairs, fewer people, most of whom are there to drink coffee and work on their laptops using free Wifi connections — it’s hard to pin it down… Continue reading What's Happened To The Bookstores?
Singleton Madness
I’ve been spending the last few weeks trying to exorcise a pesky singleton class from EP Simulator. This is the Options class, which contains all the program options that are saved from session to session. There is only one set of Options, so I had naively made the class a singleton. Singletons being what they… Continue reading Singleton Madness
Emacs Tip of the Month
Want real shell mode in Emacs? Using M-x shell only gives terminal emulation, which sometimes doesn’t display things correctly and which, since it supports all Emacs key bindings, makes you do things like use M-p instead of C-p to bring up previous commands in the command buffer ring. Most of the time Shell mode is… Continue reading Emacs Tip of the Month
EP Studios Projects Update
Here’s a rundown of current activity at the EP Studios mothership: EP Office EP Office is the flagship project of EP Studios. Version 1.7 is out and basically is the culmination of the original software, which started out as a Microsoft Access version 2 database way back in 1995. It is proprietary software, but very… Continue reading EP Studios Projects Update
Stupid Bug
Having just spent the last several hours chasing down a weird bug, there is a sense of anticlimax having finally figured it out. I have to say the debugger was less than useless in this matter: various functions mysteriously were not working, although identical code seemed to work elsewhere, variables were listed as “not in… Continue reading Stupid Bug
Amarok Startup Crash — Solved!
Every since I upgraded to OpenSuse 11.2, a source of frustration was that Amarok was broken, and I couldn’t fix it. Every time I tried to start it, I would immediately get a crash report from KDE. I could solve the problem by downgrading libxine to the version that came with OpenSuse, but that meant… Continue reading Amarok Startup Crash — Solved!
Plugging Away At EP Simulator
Just to show that I have been working on this project, here’s another screenshot which I posted at SourceForge. Source code is hosted at GitHub. I expect to upload Windows and Linux binaries soon for download for those of you who aren’t into compiling source code.
On Namespaces — Again!
I have a thing about C++ namespaces, and this is yet another post on the topic. Oh well, so my life isn’t that exciting… Namespaces avoid polluting the global namespace with names that might conflict with each other. Classes similarly encapsulate method and data member names from the big bad cold outside global namespace, but… Continue reading On Namespaces — Again!