The Hacks of Life

I'm surfing C++ entries on Wikipedia…and it's reinforcing my belief that the best use of C++ is to ignore most of the language. S...

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conceptual/CppRuntimeEnv/Articles/LibCPPDeployment.html Little did I realize that A...

…who needs enemies? I wrote this code for a GUI_ScrollBar, a derivative of GUI_Control that overrides a function, calls the base, then refre...

A long time ago in the 70s when everyone smoked a lot of dope, someone thought it would be cute to break the application launch APIs into...

I realize that this is probably totally trivial for real Win32 developers, but it took me long enough to find this that I’ll blog it and ...

I didn’t realize until recently that this works: #define WED_ThrowPrintf(fmt, …) \ throw wed_error_exception(__FILE__, __LINE__, fmt, __...

“My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.” PJ Plauger It doesn’t get...