Krazy Glew's Blog

Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Automatically Deducing Build Dependencies => Cross ToolRecursive Builds Work

Recursive make sucks. As presented by the Peter's classic paper "Recursive Make Considered Harmful", http://aegis.sourceforge...

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

I have a new BKM for argument list parsing in Perl, similar to my longstanding BKM in C/C++: my $argv = {}; for( my @tmp_ARGV = @ARGV; my $a...

Saturday, December 13, 2008

I want an apprentice

I want an apprentice. I want a junior program who can work with me. Not necessarily pair programming. An apprentice at my beck and call, wh...

Why RAII is convenient

RAII is convenient in C++. Essentially, it is the trick of using the destructor to do something like arrange flr printing of a data structur...

Change

I fear this is the start of one of those days. I'm working on Saturday, instead of getting a Christmas tree, putting up Christmas lights...

Friday, December 05, 2008

I bitch a lot, but what can be done about it?

I bitch a lot about how slow my computer is, but what can be done about it. First, my job is to make computers faster. I am working on one a...

More slowness coming out of standby?

Meetings all morning. At 12:08 start trying to use laptop - bring it out of standby. I can't read Outlook email until 12:36. @8 minutes...

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