I decided to try a GUI app. I decided to use QT4. I then quickly remembered why I don’t ever use C++ for anything. The amount of bullcrap you have to go through just to get a simple program going isn’t worth the bother for the kinds of programs I write. […]

I got through the first four chapters of PAIP yesterday and today. It’s good so far. I had reservations about spending $80 on a book, but it’s 950 pages and almost all of it is good stuff, from what I can see at a glance. Little space is wasted on introduction material […]

In Ruby, the only things that are false are nil and false. This is a nice change over other languages where other things evaluate to false in boolean tests. Like C and many others, which considers the integer 0 to be false. So is 0.0 false? How about 1e-999999? Or […]

I got K&R (the ANSI C version) as one of the going-away presents from my current / last job, and I just finished reading it.
A lot of what’s in the book is sort of review for me now but there were some things I’d never seen before. For example in the book […]