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Quick update to the previous post - it looks like at least some of the videos from GoingNative 2012 are now available on the Channel9 page.Halfway through GoingNative 2012
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It’s almost time to go back for the second day, but before I do I’d like to suggest that if you haven’t had a chance to attend in pereson or watch the livecast, see if you can find the videos online. My understanding is that they should be available - I’m writing this on my phone so I can’t be bothered to look at the moment but I’ll check later.Moving to a multi-VHD Windows installation to separate work and personal data
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I had been thinking about setting myself up with a way to work from home in a disconnected fashion. Most of the places I’ve worked at in the past required me to remote into the work desktop, which is a good idea if both sides have 100% uptime on their network connection and no issues with them being affected by adverse weather. Which in reality means that the connections tended to be unstable if the weather dictated that one really, really wanted to work from home on a particular day because snowfall was horizontal, for example.Another good reason to keep source file sizes small
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Merging a file between SCM branches that is several thousand lines in size and has significant changes in both branches is a good way to have an unpleasant day, even if the SCM that’s being used has good support for cross-branch merging. Yes, I know, ideally one tries to make sure that two branches don’t diverge that far but that’s not always possible, especially if there are significant changes to the design that affect the merge.Useful collection of Qt debug visualizers for Visual Studio
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I had to reinstall VS2010 at work and because I clearly didn’t think this all the way through, forgot to save my autoexp.dat file before removing the old installation. And of course I didn’t realise what had happened until I had to dig deeper into some Qt GUI code that wasn’t quite working as expected, and of course I was prompted with the raw data. Fortunately a quick search on Google led me to this page Human Machine Teaming Lab | Knowledge / Qt that contains a very comprehensive set of visualisers.Useful list of C++ static analysis information
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Just came across a link to this link collection that I think will be useful to C++ programmers: Everything about C++ source code static analysisScope creep doesn’t only affect software projects
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Let’s just make a small change to the requirements, I mean, what could go wrong? BBC - Peston’s Picks: Aircraft carrier costs to rise by at least a billion (again)In case you need to generate a file with the date in the filename in Windows
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I just had the pleasure to do exactly that in a batch file. Some poking around technet gave me the following: %date:~-4,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~-7,2%</pre> This will create an ISO-style date format out of a date in US locale settings.Very nice and concise blog post about Boost.Test
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If you’re looking for a quick introduction to Boost.Test that covers the main features you’re likely to use, I would recommend looking at this blog post: a little madness » Blog Archive » C++ Unit Testing With Boost.TestEmacs 23.3 released
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See here: Emacs development Time to check if the Windows builds are already available, methinks.