Posted on Tue 30 December 2014 in blog
I recently heard about Nemiver, a standalone C/C++ debugger for GNOME, and wanted to give it a try.
My current Linux development box is running CentOS 7. While Nemiver packages exist for CentOS 6, the same cannot be said for CentOS 7. So I proceeded to build it from …
Posted on Thu 23 October 2014 in blog
GitLab is a great open source GitHub clone, which I've started using for tracking my personal Git repos.
One frustrating thing I've found with GitLab however, is its handling of time zones.
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Posted on Wed 28 May 2014 in blog
Today, the TrueCrypt website and SourceForge project page suddenly changed,
indicating the end of TrueCrypt development. truecrypt.org now redirects to
their SourceForge project page, and the content has been
replaced with a surprising message:
Not only has development officially ceased, but TrueCrypt is being declared "not secure", and the …
Posted on Thu 07 March 2013 in blog
Recently, I went through the exercise of hooking up a crash-reporting component to a large .NET application using Windows Forms. The goal, of course, is to catch all unhandled exceptions so they can be reported to the developer.
Throughout this post I'll be referring to this Program.cs:
The code …
Posted on Mon 25 February 2013 in blog
Nowdays, it's not hard to find tons of arguments against the use of goto in C
(and C-like languages). Post anything to StackOverflow,
about/including goto and you're almost guaranteed to get flamed.
Just like many good and useful things in our lives (pocketknives, guns, kegs, etc.) it only takes …