Category Archives: C/C++

I’m blind (I think)

Posted on 2011-12-10 by Oliver

Now don’t get me wrong, I love to use GNU make on all the unixoid platforms where I have to use it and I have been using it for some advanced stuff on Windows as well. But honestly, when has … Continue reading →

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“Signs that you are a bad programmer”

Posted on 2011-10-22 by Oliver

This list is interesting and certainly contains some valid points, but I’d argue that some of the symptoms may also be a sign that you are simply maintaining legacy code that has outlived its life-expectancy for too long and perhaps … Continue reading →

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Two years later (update)

Posted on 2011-05-19 by Oliver

A new version of TortoiseCVS is available. Since I have largely parted with CVS, I just noticed now. Well, the issue reported in 2008 and closed as fixed is still not fixed. The respective piece of code looks exactly the … Continue reading →

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mydumper – nice alternative for mysqldump

Posted on 2011-04-01 by Oliver

I’m using MariaDB. Now, I had the idea for smaller DBs to use the SQL dump and store that in a version control system such as Mercurial or Git. However, the ordinary mysqldump creates quite unreadable dumps. Since the version … Continue reading →

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