Category Archives: Programming

Merge down, copy up

Posted on 2007-07-03 by

If you are using any SCM that allows cheap branches (like Perforce) and are following the advices from the High-level Best Practices document, you might be interested in (or already know) Laura Wingerd’s presentation Convergence vs. Divergence: Purposeful Merging with … Continue reading →

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Psion SIBO SDK

Posted on 2007-05-16 by

I’m cleaning up shelves and have got an old “SIBO SDK 2.10″ which I haven’t used in years. It is a Software Development Kit for 16-Bit Psion handheld computers like Psion Series 3 or Psion Workabout. If you are interested … Continue reading →

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envvc

Posted on 2007-04-05 by

Did you ever have the need to use different versions of Microsofts Visual C++ compiler from the command line? Did you wish you wouldn’t have to constantly call vcvars32.bat or change your environment (PATH, INCLUDE and LIB variables)? In comes … Continue reading →

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Solving the Santa Claus Problem with Barriers

Posted on 2006-05-22 by

There are already many solutions to the “Santa Claus Problem” by John Trono[1]. It’s a “problem simple to understand and yet far from easy to solve”; the author’s original solution (based on semaphores) was only partly correct. The probably most … Continue reading →

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dmake Stories

Posted on 2006-04-17 by

At work, we started using dmake in 1991 (or even earlier) for building the firmware for the Vending Machine Controller Euro’90. The firmware consisted mostly of PL/M and C code and the compilers suffered from the DOS limitation of 127 … Continue reading →

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Tiger and Realpolitik

Posted on 2005-05-23 by

Even before I upgraded to OS X 10.4 (Tiger), I got the report that the Save File dialog in Realpolitik crashes. Now I have applied a quick’n’dirty fix for the next couple of days for all Tiger users and released … Continue reading →

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Back from Oxford

Posted on 2005-04-25 by

The four days at the ACCU Conference in Oxford are over. Except Günter nobody seems to have blogged the C++ track. Apart from the discussions and presentations what should go into the next C++ standard (called C++0x and scheduled for … Continue reading →

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Realpolitik for OS X

Posted on 2005-03-15 by

After much carbonizing by Ben Hines and some polishing by me a new Realpolitik Release is available on Sourceforge, the first release for OS X. The release version Realpolitik 1.7.0 Alpha1 is not yet stable (hence Alpha 1), there are … Continue reading →

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CVS with AppleSingle files

Posted on 2005-02-07 by

Longtime Apple developers probably know this intuitively, but I needed some time to figure it out: When CVS-ing files with a resource fork, you must not use the /usr/bin/cvs that ships with OS X! Because Apple used to separate data … Continue reading →

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El Niño Drawing

Posted on 2004-12-10 by

Every year after christmas the El Niño Cup takes place. It is a tournament where the result is less important than exercising and having fun. There is a team day, where every team plays Volleyball, Basketball and Unihockey, and a … Continue reading →

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