transition

Right now, a coffee maker is obeying a timer, grinding beans in a kitchen in a house that used to be my home. It's still a home, just not mine. Presently, a woman, once the love of my life, will glide blearily into the kitchen and grope for a cup. She'll smile, thinking of a man that is not me.

And, you know, that's OK.

Naughty, naughty, naughty!

It's not really naughty, but I just caved into something that I wish I had caved into *years* ago; getting a fountain pen that not only works, but kicks ass. I am so doomed, because I now need -- yes need! -- more pens to sling the ink that needs slinging. The pen: Lamy AL-Star, medium nib. AL is periodic table, not American gazetteer, BTW... The colors: r, g, b, c, m, y, k -- I have k -- and all of the glorious combinations their mingling might produce!

Windows Rules to Live by: The Registry

Never deploy code that writes to the Windows registry without having tested sister code that removes what was written from the registry.

Thought for the Day: Unit Tests

Keep your documentation close, but your unit tests closer.

Ah! Post unit test build complete!

Back at it...

GeoPDF Now OGC Best Practice

After many long years, GeoPDF is open and an OGC best practice. I would have like to have seen this go down in 2003 when I first wrote the specification. It would have been very different, since it would have been designed for external consumption (too many naught bits hang out in the LGIDict specification, but it had to get done in about a day and a half...), but it should have been open from the get-go, IMO. A little gruntle for the ranting set, too...

In Praise of Mavericks

Col. Michael Wyly's AFJ article made me think about what "professional" means. John Boyd, mentioned in the article, was an interesting cat.

C++ Frequently Questioned Answers

The C++ FQA is priceless.

Artistic License

Go forth and take (get) your artistic license. Be sure to click on the license itself so you can take in the grandeur that are the codes.

Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Months

We'll almost no matter what you do, you can't learn programming in 10 months. However, Eli Bendersky shows one how to make the most of your first 10 months of the process. I'll leave it to
Peter Norvig to explain why learning to program is takes more than a few weeks with a "21 days" book...

When ever you hear...

"linux", substitute "mobile". Pictures get a whole lot more interesting...

Phil Baugh: Country Guitar

I was doing time on the connector when what wafted through the aether on WRFG? Phil Baugh's Country Guitar. I don't know why, but it really struck my fancy

New Acronym: WTFW?

Do you ever wonder from whence something came? I do. I love thesarui, e. g.

WTFW?

Where TF Whence?

QOTD

Software can't solve the dumb-ass problem. -- Dr Aybabtu

Duff's Template

template <class T>
void
duff(T* to, T* from, T count) {
  T n = (count+7)/8;
  switch (count % 8) {
    do {
    case 0: *to = *from++;
    case 7: *to = *from++;
    case 6: *to = *from++;
    case 5: *to = *from++;
    case 4: *to = *from++;
    case 3: *to = *from++;
    case 2: *to = *from++;
    case 1: *to = *from++;
    } while (--n > 0);
  }
}