To Know: Hamcrest

From the boost mailing list: Hamcrest is a declarative test-assertion definition style. The word is an anagram of matchers.  

Dropbox? Python.

Love it.  Dropbox uses python, scaling to 175 million users. Also interesting: The team also found it was easier to keep log data rather than delete old code – usually there would be a need for it later on for whatever reason. “Delete nothing unless necessary,” said Eranki. A major conclusion of those early days:… Continue reading Dropbox? Python.

Confluence

Just hosted a Join.Me session directly into a VMWare virtual machine on my machine. Didn’t have to clean up (my desktop) for company. Love the confluence of technologies.

Boost Inside

Snooping in the QuickBooks 2013 installation directory, I find a couple boost libraries: boost_regex-vc90-mt-p-1_33.dll boost_serialization-vc90-mt-1_35.dll boost_serialization-vc90-mt-1_33.dll Not a lot of boost, but some.  And they’re a few years old, but still fine.    

Comment Spam

I’m disabling comments on both new posts and old ones. Comment spam is truly pernicious. Please e-mail me if you have a comment! I’m glad to hear from you.

Even concrete…

Here’s a picture from my old blog. Even concrete pipe sections have URL’s on them now. Archeologists will find these thousands of years from now.

New Hosting

Here’s my new business blog. Posts didn’t carry over from the previous blog. (I was too busy to give it attention. No big loss.) Cheers!