The continued diary of an experienced C++ programmer. Thoughts on C++ and other languages I play with, Emacs, functional, non functional and sometimes non-functioning programming.
The “latest” ACCU magazine showed up a couple of days ago after a minor delay:
My guess from my minor experience in software and IT is that “computer says ‘send to India’” :).
As a bit of an RSS junkie - see previous post - I had to go look for alternatives to Google Reader. I’ve been a feedly user on and off for a few years but I was never that taken with it. It does seem to do mostly do what it says on the tin and having various tablet apps available for feedly is a good thing, but it tends to run into a few issues with high-volume feeds (craigslist feeds, I’m looking at you). Mind you, the reoccuring Craigslist feed issue seems to be more of an issue with Craigslist themselves than feedly.
Happy New Year to all readers.
I’ve been blogging even less recently as we’ve just moved house but unpacking all the boxes meant that I came across one of my favourite magazines:
German readers of this blog (if are there any) might recognise the magazine - it’s the first issue of “c’t”, a magazine that is still going on strong almost thirty years later. The issue above is dated November/December 1983 and has moved house (and continents) with me a fair number of times.
I generally don’t post that much about the tools I use as they’re pretty standard fare and most of the time, your success as a programmer depends more on your skills than on your tools. Mastery of your tools will make you a better software engineer, but if you put the tools first, you end up with the cart before the horse.
I guess people have noticed that I use Emacs a lot :). My use of it is mainly for writing and editing code (and some newsgroup reading at home using Gnus) and I generally use it only for longer coding sessions. As a lot of my work is on Windows, one of the main tools I use is Visual Studio - almost exclusively 2010 right now, although I’ve taken a few peeks at 2012 and have used pretty much every version since VC++ 4. While I tend to use Emacs as soon as I’m editing more than two lines I tend to make the small changes that you get to make while debugging in Visual Studio.
Let’s just make a small change to the requirements, I mean, what could go wrong?
BBC - Peston’s Picks: Aircraft carrier costs to rise by at least a billion (again)
Now that’s awfully close to the mark for those of us who’ve work on trading systems: