Tom Lachecki

While writing my previous post, a question came to mind regarding the use of static members for bounding arrays that are members of the same type.

A piece of supposedly well-written multi-threaded code was giving me a headache the other day. I briefly explore a common(?) pitfall in the use of RAII-driven locking mechanisms.

Somehow I'd missed this unofficial teaser trailer for the BSG prequel "Blood & Chrome". It looks fantastic in most places (with slightly dodgy CGI sets in only a handful), although there's no way to gauge the quality of the plot, acting or writing at this stage. The bad news, though, is that SyFy — who […]

I've pretty much made a home of Stack Overflow — the modern age's answer to Experts Exchange — over the last year and a bit. From arriving in January 2011, I swiftly began answering C++, PHP and jQuery questions and asked a few of my own.

And another bollocks post.

I don't think I'll be answering this one.

I was posed a question recently as to why the C++ expression true == true == true compiled successfully. The person asking was sure that equality comparison held no associativity and that the expression was thus too ambiguous to be well-formed.

I'm the biggest fan of the Eleventh Doctor and of Moffat as Doctor Who showrunner. The change from RTD's constant contrived flamboyance has been welcomed, and the show looks amazing. But if there's any way in which series six actually makes any internally consistent logical sense at all please let me know.

Having come up against disbelievers too often now, I've decided to take matters into my own hands and definitively conclude this argument once and for all.

From the MySQL documentation on LAST_INSERT_ID() and AUTO_INCREMENT columns…