I'm currently working on integrating a 3rd party library in my own code and today I realized that there are 4 typical phases in such a process (at least for me): Try to understand library Fai...
Lately I've been interested in creating my own .deb files for easy distribution of my application. These two articles give a good basic tutorial: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Ro...
Just returned from a 2-day overview course of the Boost C++ library at Datasim in Amsterdam. It was a real eye-opener and I was fortunate enough to be the only student. The biggest problem with Boo...
A rather nice posting over at Heise UK about the current mess that the linux intel graphics drivers are in: http://www.h-online.com/open/Ubuntu-9-04-and-Intel-graphics--/features/113196
Interesting reading material: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ C++ coding guidelines from google: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml
Interesting reads: Jack v1 source guide Jack v2 source guide JACK is the one thing that makes Linux audio tolerable, as opposed to some other projects starting with 'A' and ending with 'LSA...
Well the last few days have been an interesting investigation into the details of popen() and system() and all the happy side effects when you use them from a multithreaded application. I have this...
Tired of ssh'ing into a machine, doing 'mkdir -m700 .ssh' and running scp to copy over your public key file? As with all things on Unix, somebody has already thought about it and provided a solutio...
Because I don't want to forget here are some useful sites about doing some self-maintenance on my VW Golf MKIV: Problemcar (generic for all brands) http://www.tdiclub.nl http://www.vwforum....
The gettid() call doesn't work on my system so I found this: printf("The ID of this of this thread is: %ld\n", (long int)syscall(224)); This number can be found like this: benjamin@benjamin-lap...