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A short article about removing items from a standard C++ container. Click To Read More...

I recently got ahold of a nice MacBook Pro and I’m using it as my primary Windows box at work. It’s nice and snappy and I like it, but I’m having trouble getting used to the keyboard, let alone the one-button mousepad. I thought I’d use this post to collapse several google searches into one location. I’ll likely add to this list as I learn more tricks. Click To Read More...

Inspired by Rob, I decided I’d take a crack at embedding Lua scripting in a couple C++ projects that I’m working on. Rob has gone the ultimate route of using SWIG, but when I was starting to do some research, I stumbled upon Luabridge, a library that attempts to do all the interface binding using C++ templates. This sounds like more fun to me - even if I can’t later use it for Scheme scripts or whatever in the future. Click To Read More...

Via Slashdot. Hm, maybe someone at Marvel Comics is reading my blog? About a year and a half ago, I made a suggestion of a $10 monthly charge to read any number of older comics online. Now Marvel comics is doing just that. I’m not claiming my suggestion was original or revolutionary, it’s just good to see the comic book companies finally starting to get a clue.

I took a look at a sample issue and the quality is pretty good on my 19″ monitor. What cares about the fancy page transitions, though. They use Adobe Flash 9, of course.

I hope DC follows suit because I bet some of those really old issues are impossible to find through any other means.

As per these requests I made a screencast of running the SVG video demos on Opera 9.5. My apologies for the crappy video - it’s only my second attempt. Also, I should stress that the framerate of the video on Opera is perfect (any jitteriness is the screencast’s fault, not Opera’s).

The Opera web browser really puts the other guys to shame when implementing open standards. I wholeheartedly agree with Doug that it’s a shame that I can’t customize Opera’s chrome the way I can with Firefox (you can only go so far with User JavaScript and widgets) - it would easily become my default browser (and not just the browser I test advanced features in). Anyway, those guys at Opera have released a development build of Opera 9.5 that supports video in the browser. This is a big step forward for the open web. Click To Read More...

As originally discussed here and reported on here, I keep most of my work in Subversion repositories. Since starting doing this it’s been much easier to migrate from one machine to another and continue working. However, there are down sides to using Subversion. I thought I would lay out what I would consider to be the best method of storing/accessing my documents. Click To Read More...