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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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Saturday, February 04, 2012

Recognizing errors in build scripts

A very important thing, when writing or some other form of build recipe, is recognizing when an error has occurred that might prevent you go...

A good example of how make is needlessly repetitive is how I have been building makefile lines today: I copy a command line that I paste...

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Using namespace - fixing the problem

We just had the "using namespace std, versus std:: all over the place" conversation at work. The usual: "using namespace...

Monday, January 30, 2012

Version controlling VCS metadata

My project .hg/hgrc is growing pretty long. It needs to be under version control. Unfortunately, hg does not, refuses to, version metad...

Symlinks to URLs

http://superuser.com/questions/277186/symlink-to-a-url/384182#384182 As people have explained, although you can create a symlink that li...

Saturday, January 28, 2012

[[Write coalescing]] is the term some GPUs, notably AMD/ATI and Nvidia, use to describe how they, umm, combine or coalesce writes from diffe...

Project structure: code, tests, external depndencies

Say you have a project foo, which I will call .../foo, to emphasize that there is probably a project directory somewhere in the namespace. ...

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