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I am getting dumb of writing the same code over and over, so I am finally in the process of setting up a C++ framework with core functionality I use in almost every project: macros (e.g. assertions), helper functions (e.g. pattern matching), serialization, virtual file system, XML support,… Some of the stuff is extracted from [...]

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I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 today due to some major security issues (German link) and was reminded that one of my widgets was not working correctly. Nathan Oliphant wrote this widget to display bookmarks in the sort order of the users choosing. Unfortunately, it had two minor bugs which 1. caused changes not to be [...]

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Today, I wrote a simple MyBB plugin, Registration eMail Check (RMC). The plugin first verifies whether the email has a valid format, then compares the email host with a number of hosts which were explicitly disabled by the administrator (the plugin comes with a decent list of well-known one-time address providers), and finally tries to [...]

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I’ve been doing a bit XP at home lately.

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I added a new book review on JBoss Seam – Simplicity and Power beyond Java EE.
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Ooops, I didn’t write much lately since there wasn’t much to write about. I had great holidays and a fantastic New Years Eve, and I met some nice people in the past few days. I hope you all had a great time, too. A happy new year to everyone!
I digged through StudiVZ the other day [...]

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Christopher sent word that entwickler-press.de offers 24 free German developer e-Books for download in a virtual Advent calendar. Here’s the full list:
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I started several projects during the development time of DVW and eventually none of them came to an end (yet) in favor of DVW, so I thought I could share some of my findings. I wrote a little tutorial about how to electively serialize to and from XML or binary respectively. I would really appreciate [...]

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Without further ado, here is our cut-together of Dusmania 9.0 scenes plus original ingame footage plus official soundtrack tunes. Enjoy.

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Months ago, I started a little sparetime “Web 2.0″ project together with two coworkers. My main interest was to enhance my JEE knowledge and to get to know a new framework. I was unsure whether to go for Struts Shale or JBoss Seam and decided for the latter. Today, I’m confident I took the right [...]

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Did you ever think about why your mouse pointer becomes a hand if you hover a link but not if you hover a
? I don’t get the difference.
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I’m using Subversion and Trac for several projects and I always thought that I should write down my workflow to set it up. This time, I did, and I’m sharing it with you. It’s probably not the best way, but it works for me. I will not cover the prerequesites here, like installing Apache 2 [...]

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When you’re applying an Adapter Pattern, you’re generally grappling with classes and method signatures. I just had to deal with packages and package visibility in Java where I found the Adapter Pattern to be an interesting solution.
I was accessing a class A in a package com.example from the outside (an RMI call). The method I [...]

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Now the people at SlickEdit® released a package of VS2005 enhancements, too. More info.
Other todays favourite links are openadaptor.org, bloodmasters.com and TiddlyWiki.
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Microsoft has released a Power Toys package for VS2005.
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements are a set of Visual Studio extensions that are designed to make you more productive. These enhancements are directly integrated into the Visual Studio IDE. This set of enhancements includes Source Code Outliner, Visual C++ Code Snippets, Indexed Find, Super Diff and [...]

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Auf developia.de habe ich gelesen, dass Microsoft 5000 Visual Studio Standard Lizenzen verschenkt. Voraussetzung ist, dass man sich anmeldet und sich dann mindestens fünf CodeClips zu Gemüte führt. Interessenhalber habe ich mir ein paar der Clips angeschaut. Die gute Nachricht, für diejenigen, die nur auf VS aus sind, ist, dass der liebe Christian Wenz in [...]

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I just had a case where I wanted to make sure that a C++ template parameter was of a certain type. The template should be used for pointers to instances of class “Base” and its derivates so that I could call a method of Base on the object provided to the template class.
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I just read something in AI Game Programming Wisdom 3 which sounded sooo familiar to me. Sergio Garces of Pyro Studios writes about game architecture regarding the game objects, “… we often see examples of inheritance abuse, making the fundamental mistake of confusing behaviour (what objects do) with identity (what objects are)”. This is exactly [...]

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Today I was discussing about how one could implement a stacktrace in C++, where one has not the luxury of Thread.dumpStack() or Throwable.printStackTrace(…) of Java. The general C++ approach one finds often is to create a dummy object on the stack at the beginning of each method which receives the current file and function as [...]

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