I was linked earlier on to a presentation entitled "The Dark Side Of C++", written in August 2007 by C expert Felix von Leitner. He attempts to explain C++'s pitfalls and demonstrate why a programmer should choose another language. Though the intention is sound and some good points are made, unfortunately it also contains untruths. Therefore, I shall go through parts of the presentation, debunking its lies.
I went out for the evening and came back to find BBC News reporting that Canning Circus police station — which is 30m across the road from my flat — had been "firebombed".
As the assorted peoples of the internet gather around Facebook, Twitter and the rest of them watching violence unfold in several major English cities, a couple of things cross my mind.
I went to Nottingham's Riverside Festival today, and it was astounding. Not just from the number of individuals present — from all walks of life — but from the talent that it demonstrated.
A version of my previous post (a tidy, all-in-one table of all the C++03 container iterator invalidation rules) updated for C++0x.
I've not found a tidy, all-in-one table of all the C++03 container iterator invalidation rules. So, with references, here they are!
Briefly exploring the world of the music business and how record labels don't tend to embrace on-demand access to music across the internet. Is the solution really to sit back and allow unfettered access to IP?
Like any half-assed amateur system administrator worth his Sainsbury's Basics table salt, I've been searching for a decent backup/restore solution for a while now. Then, just recently, I found it.
It's referendum day in the UK: the day when all vote-registered citizens announce whether they are happy with the existing First-Past-The-Post electoral system, or whether they would prefer the Alternative Vote system.
Having bitten my tongue and agreed to try collapsing my menu bar into the "Firefox button", what was one step too far was that the tab-bar would now collapse into the window's titlebar when maximised, then drop down to its own line again when the window was restored.
