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Wednesday, 23 September 2009

The Perils of Intellisense

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Work on my WMI library has been a little erratic during my recent time off, but I came across a bug recently which I lay squarely at the doo...
Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Going Back to Work

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Back in March I made the decision not to renew my contract for a 4th year and instead to take some time off. After discussing my financial s...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009

My First Published Articles

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Today the postman delivered the July 2009 issue of C Vu - the magazine of the ACCU . In it features two pieces by yours truly :-) Okay, so t...
Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Using Visual C++ Together With GCC - Some Alternatives

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My last post described how I have started using GCC 4.4 to compile my codebase so that I gain a little more portability, but more important...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009

GCC for the Visually C++ Impaired

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At this years ACCU conference Steve Love gave a talk titled Why Portable Code? . It covered far more than just toolchains and platforms, ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Where Are the "Lite" Editions of Static Code Analysis Tools?

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When I started out, the compiler I was using was set to build on warning level 2 (it was MS C600) which pretty much just told you if your co...
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Monday, 22 June 2009

The Default 'Size' & 'Index' Type: size_t vs int

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I started out writing applications in C on 16-bit Windows. The company I worked for favoured using the Windows SDK functions instead of the ...
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Chris Oldwood
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A freelance C# & C++ programmer with 30 years experience writing applications and services primarily on Windows.
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