mr-edd.co.uk :: horsing around with the C++ programming language

2012

• Another use for explicit vtables [24/04/2012]
• Nifty little lock class [08/03/2012]

2011

• _GLIBCXX_DEBUG is broken on Apple's GCC 4.2 [11/08/2011]
• Undo/redo part 3: combining actions [08/02/2011]
• Strange GCC error: expected unqualified-id before ‘OTHER’ token [28/01/2011]
• Undo/redo part 2: exception safety [19/01/2011]
• Undo/redo part 1: the easy bits [16/01/2011]

2010

• sigfwd 0.1.1 and fungo 0.1.2 [03/12/2010]
• Setting Qt::WA_MacSmallSize automatically for the whole application [02/12/2010]
• jpegxx 0.3.1 bugfix release [12/11/2010]
• fungo: in the absence of std::exception_ptr [16/10/2010]
• The problem with DAG-driven builds [21/07/2010]
• sigfwd: forwarding Qt signals anywhere [10/07/2010]
• Turning an insurance renewal in to a lambda expression [10/07/2010]
• Improving on: Dr. Dobbs - Associate Mutexes with Data to Prevent Races [29/05/2010]
• thread_local: a read/write lock example [04/05/2010]
• Visual C++ 2010 available [25/04/2010]
• Introducing nanohook [03/04/2010]
• C++11 final committee draft accepted [13/03/2010]
• A problem with boost::thread_specific_ptr [17/02/2010]
• Neat trick: iterating over consecutive pairs of adjacent indices [09/02/2010]
• Multicore scalability testing with Intel Parallel Universe [30/01/2010]
• New year's resolution: learn x86 assembly [20/01/2010]
• oooooo… shiny… [20/01/2010]

2009

• pngxx 0.3.1 bugfix release [18/10/2009]
• An improved assert macro for comparisons [22/09/2009]
• Updates to jpegxx, pngxx and slam [25/07/2009]
• C++ concepts voted out of C++0X [20/07/2009]
• XSMELL: awesomer XML creation [02/07/2009]
• A problem with the rule of three [15/03/2009]
• So pointers to members aren't useless after all? [12/01/2009]

2008

• Refinements of my tips for exceptions design [30/11/2008]
• jpegxx and pngxx 0.2.0 released [29/11/2008]
• Introducing test-o-matic [19/10/2008]
• Slam 0.2.9 released [17/10/2008]
• Introducing pexl: a process execution library [09/08/2008]
• Supressing specific warnings on gcc/g++ [09/08/2008]
• Avoid: empty inline destructors [13/07/2008]
• Tips for designing exception classes [28/06/2008]
• Stop viral NaNs with smart references [30/05/2008]
• Edit counterpart vim script [17/05/2008]
• Looking inward [01/05/2008]
• Variations on a theme (the STL) [07/04/2008]
• incidentally… [06/04/2008]
• coco 0.2.0 released [23/02/2008]
• async 0.2.3 release [16/01/2008]
• Adding determinism to multithreaded tests [13/01/2008]
• opqit 0.1.1 released [04/01/2008]

2007

• embd: a tool to embed files in applications [24/11/2007]
• value_ptr: giving value semantics to polymorphic types [19/11/2007]
• Filling matrices and vectors naturally [04/11/2007]
• Compile-time optimisation of matrix multiplication chains [28/10/2007]
• Concept-based matrix library [21/10/2007]
• More stack trace code for Mac OS X and Windows [09/10/2007]
• async 0.2.2 released [23/09/2007]
• async 0.2.1 released [14/09/2007]
• Obtaining a stack trace programmatically on x86 [08/09/2007]
• slam 0.2.8 release [28/08/2007]
• Are templates the best code reuse enabler in C++? [12/08/2007]
• async 0.1.0 released [02/08/2007]
• An asynchronous function call mechanism: the final piece [22/07/2007]
• jpegxx 0.1.1 bugfix release [14/07/2007]
• An asynchronous function call mechanism: futures [12/07/2007]
• An asynchronous function call mechanism: handling exceptions [28/06/2007]
• slam 0.2.7 and opqit 0.1.0 [18/06/2007]
• Google tech talk videos on C++ [10/06/2007]
• The beginnings of an opaque iterator library [28/05/2007]
• Introducing jpegxx [17/05/2007]
• Slam 0.2.4 bugfix release [08/05/2007]
• Explicitly using the delete operator is a bad idea [29/04/2007]
• The morph-o-matic pattern [20/04/2007]
• A beginner's guide to writing a custom stream buffer (std::streambuf) [12/04/2007]
• Slam 0.2.2 released [07/04/2007]
• Introducing the slam build system [22/02/2007]
• Parallel computing is now. Parallel programming isn't [13/02/2007]
• Welcome! [10/02/2007]