Although a bit old, this presentation by Scott Meyers at ACCU 2011 can probably be considered one of the references on this subject. Continue reading “C++: Meyers – Move Semantics” »
C++: Meyers – Move Semantics
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C++: Stroustrup – C++11 Style – A Touch of Class
May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
With my increasing interest on C++11, this keynote that Bjarne Stroustrup gave at Going Native 2012, was an interesting lecture (fully available on YouTube)
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OS X: How to disable Acrobat as the Safari PDF viewer
May 9, 2012 by 6 Comments
Soon after switching to Mac I discovered that one of the myths that I lived with for many years, i.e. that Adobe Acrobat Reader is mandatory in order to view PDF documents, is no longer true.
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How to make Philips DVP3880 zone free
February 28, 2012 by 1 Comment
Motion pictures publishers may have their reasons, but DVD region copy protection was always an annoying issue, of little value for users.
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iPod nano USB battery charger
February 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
No questions about this, Apple designs are remarkable. Their products look great, are easy to use, and generally work great. The price? Yes, the price is high, but not prohibitively high.
What makes me angry is how they try to monetize even on small details, sometimes by bending the standards.
Mac OS X: How to install EAGLE as a non-administrator user
October 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment
There are few EDA programs that run on Mac OS X. One of them is CadSoft EAGLE PCB & Schematic software (v5), but unfortunately the integration with Mac OS X is minimal.
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Mac OS X: Install package with administrative rights
October 8, 2011 by 2 Comments
There are some packages that can be properly installed only with administrative rights. If you are like me, and run your account with regular rights, you might face some installation failures with poorly build packages.
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Mac OS X: Startup key combinations
September 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
There are moments when even Mac OS X has problems and needs to be started in special configurations.
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Internet history: EUnet Romania – un an de activitate
August 9, 2011 by 2 Comments
This is the text of an interview published on the 24th of November 1994 in Comunicații PC, a Romanian IT magazine.
Mac OS X: How to run a program with a specific PATH?
July 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
One of challenges many developers face is to be able to maintain different (old) products, built with various versions of the development tools, some quite obsolete.
The right answer to this challenge is to have different virtual machines with the complete environment. Unfortunately, due to crazy licensing issues, currently running Mac OS X as a virtual guest on a Mac OS X host is not allowed (according to some rumours, Lion will change this).
The next choice is to keep multiple versions of the development tools installed in different folders, but in this case extra care should be taken to avoid messing the PATH.
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