Today I came across a situation which brought it home to me again how (in my opinion) C++ could desperately do with native lambda function support. The standard library has introduced a load of great algorithms, but providing predicates and the like to them is a real pain – and I think that because of this people tend […]
Our Linksys NSLU2 NAS finally died after a long and protracted fight to keep it on its legs and serving. It has been acting up for a month or two now and now simply refuses to boot unless there are no drives plugged in (that’s not much use!!), I have a feeling that I could probably […]
I have recently been doing some fairly intensive merging and difference checking with Tortoise SVN and subversion and once again find myself thanking my luck stars that Winmerge is installed on my (windows) system just waiting to lend a helping hand! For those who haven’t come across it Winmerge is an open source tool for visually checking file differences, […]
Here is an interesting article about the economics of human CAPTCHA ‘solving’ in India. $2 for a 1000 reads, that’s a lot of squinting at wavy, almost impossible to read letters to the dollar, can’t be good for the health! Apparently it’s part of their ‘data processing’ industry!
We have finally got around to launching our new Technical Support Service for Irish Web Designers – a service designed to take care of the occasional programming and enginering aspects of a Web Designer’s Web development work, leaving them free to concentrate on the actual Web Design and Delivery. This is a local service provided by experts in Ireland – so fast […]
Our client’s brief was to display their latest blog post on their main web page in a truncated form, their main web page is not part or their blog. After a little searching I came across a wordpress plugin called Get-a-Post which seemed to promise just what we required. It will retrieve a post, and sets the […]
The wordpress php function get_the_content(), when called from within the wordpress ‘loop’ will usually return the current post’s content – ‘very handy’ I hear you cry! Indeed, but all is not as simple as it may seem. If there is a <!–More–> block in the post it will not return the full text but instead will return some of the text […]
The register have posted an interesting list of Pros and Cons for Microsoft SIlverlight – agree or disagree, love it or hate it – it’s going to be in interesting time! Personally I think that anything that gives Adobe a run for its money can’t be all bad!!
The Register Reports that the recently released OpenGL 3.0 specification has left many GL gaming developers threatening to defect to MS Direct3D, it seems that many of the promised additions and new features did not get a look in to the long awaited (3 years!) 3.0 Spec. It has been promised that 3.1 will remedy this […]
We hit a little speed bump in our work with parameter-less lambdas – we wanted to be able to assign them to objects of a custom class via an implicit cast, this is very important to our cunning plan… To illustrate this consider the following class that just encapsulates a 0-arity delegate Func<T>: public class RuleProp<T> { private […]