Monthly Archives: February 2011

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Lex

I’ve learned some critical mass of useful shortcuts recently that I’d like to share. I’ll continuously grow this post (for posterity) as I learn more. Please send me useful (non-obvious) shortcuts if you know of any. Alt-F10 – maximize/minimize window … Continue reading →

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C++ Style Guide

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Lex

I’m a big believer that any software system should follow a consistent style. The emphasis should almost always be on consistence over justification. In the realm of style, there are a lot of opinions about code indentation, naming conventions, etc. … Continue reading →

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Hello World: Software Engineering Video Course

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Lex

Armando Fox is an Associate Prof from Berkeley who does a bunch of interesting things, one of which is teach what I believe is an undergrad class on Software Engineering (that sadly only has a broken URL on his site). … Continue reading →

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GCC Stack: Colorgcc, CCache, Distcc

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Lex

For prettifying and speeding up the compilation of your C++ on Linux with GCC it’s relatively common practice to use colorgcc, ccache, and distcc. This page describes the quick couple steps it takes to set up a “gcc stack” that … Continue reading →

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Executable Files in SVN

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Lex

Another thing that shouldn’t have taken me so long to find out about… set executable permissions on a file under subversion (SVN): svn propset svn:executable ON filename As this page states: When you want to make a versioned file executable, … Continue reading →

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Breaking Promises in the Name of Comfort

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Lex

A programming language has a well-defined syntax. There’s often an organization behind establishing standards for that syntax, e.g. C++ Standards Committee. It holds meetings, and I imagine offers lots of free coffee. This morning, in writing a quick Perl script, … Continue reading →

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Perl 6 Release Date

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Lex

Rivaling its infamous vaporware comrade Duke Nukem Forever, Perl 6 has been announced by Perl creator Larry Wall to be out “by Christmas” for over 10 years. If you still had doubts about the existence of Santa Claus, this should … Continue reading →

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Ode to Emacs

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Lex

Source: XKCD’s tribute to emacs In a world of beautiful, powerful IDE‘s for programming in C++, Java, PHP, Perl, LaTeX, etc, I still use Emacs. For those that don’t know, Emacs is a editor which God used to program the Universe. … Continue reading →

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CRUD: Create, Read, Update, and Delete

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Lex

CRUD are the four basic operations commonly performed on a relational database. In MySQL for example, the four operation are implemented by INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE, respectively. The reason for this post is that I’ve had to program these … Continue reading →

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Multiple Desktops on Windows

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Lex

One life-changing (not really) productivity technique commonly used in Linux is the capability to have multiple “desktops”. For example, say you’re working on a Powerpoint presentation but at the same time are writing a LaTeX document revision of a journal … Continue reading →

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