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Nothing Sucks Like A Vax!
We moved into our new office this week (photos courtesy of MAD, thanks!), and it's pretty damned awesome! Considering the small size of the office (in number of people), it is extremely nice, the food is great, and so is the view (we had a nice view from the 24th floor, but now we're more "in the action", I like that better). Plus, we can easily ( Read more... ) -
Putting Thoughts Together
Something that I have said a number of times is that nowadays, there is almost no reason to pick C over C++ for a new project (one of the few reasons that I know of involve writing execute-in-place code for very small embedded systems, so no, GNOME definitely doesn't qualify!). Worst case, you write exactly the same code you'd have written in C, ( Read more... ) -
Tempting Fate?
I talked about how the weather was great for biking recently in my previous post, when I left the office, it started raining hard, and it stopped just as I arrived home.
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Bourget, The New Decarie!
Uh, there was a traffic jam on my small street today when I left for work?!? Complete with no less than two city buses, trying to work around the cranes and other construction equipment currently cluttering the street... Weird ( Read more... ) -
Moving On
Reg Braithwaite was writing not long ago about how we can be the biggest obstacle to our own growth. It made me realize how I've dropped things that I was once a staunch supporter of ( Read more... ) -
Packed!
Ok, so after going to Festival Kinetik last week (where I nearly snapped my neck ogling!), I booked up this weekend pretty solid: going to Mutek Nocturne 3 and 4 (Friday and Saturday), the Beer Fest on Saturday, the Tour de l'île on Sunday and She Wants Revenge on Monday. It will be both intense and awesome, I think ( Read more... ) -
Timeouts In Blocking Socket Code
I was wondering how to handle timeouts correctly while blocked for I/O on sockets, with as few system calls as possible.
Thanks to slamb for reminding me of SO_SNDTIMEO/SO_RCVTIMEO! Combined with recv() letting me do short reads, I think I've got what I need for something completely portable. -
Following Up On The End Of The World
Being the end of the world and all, I figure I should go into a bit more details, especially as omnifarious went as far as commenting on this life-altering situation.
He's unfortunately correct about a shared-everything concurrency model being too hard for most people, mainly because the average programmer has a lizard's brain. There's not much I can do ( Read more... ) -
The End Of The World (As We Know It)!
Ok, here we go:
Event-driven non-blocking I/O isn't the way anymore for high-performance network servers, blocking I/O on a bunch of threads is better now.
Wow, I can't believe I just wrote that! Here's a post that describes some of the reasons (this is talking more about Java, but the underlying reasons apply to C++ as well, it's not just JVMs ( Read more... ) -
Green Fries and Bikes
After azrhey and I spending an evening in SketchUp Thursday, we placed some sort of initial order for a custom TV unit Friday. Hopefully, this is going to be quite nice!
After that, we met up with cpirate for some Frite Alors, on Rachel. I don't remember other Frite Alors being as environmentally-aware as that one, where they had bike racks (which look like ( Read more... )