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Recent Posts

• List comprensions in Perl using map {}

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  A quick comparison of list processing in Perl and Python

• BBC BASIC binary line number format

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  A further look at BBC BASIC's in-memory format, specifically the line numbers.

• More on BASIC line numbers

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  More on the BBC BASIC binary line number encoding.

• IRBasic - object-oriented BASIC

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  An object-oriented BBC BASIC.

• The three way handshake of understanding

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  Matt: Right?Malcolm: Right.Matt: Right!Matt:SYN / SYN ACK / ACKMalcolm: I see a blog post in its entirety.

• Ambiguous function overloading in C++

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  C++ function overload resolution can be rather inscrutable. I try and make sense of a particular case.

• C++ header dependency tricks

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  Some tricks for reducing dependencies and hence compile times in C++.

• Strict aliasing in C

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  It's not OK anymore to cast willy nilly in C++. Well, it never was. But it's less so now.

• Things I didn't know about Visual Studio's Debugger

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  Discussing debugger pseudovariables for accessing GetLastError return values.

• Launching a debugger automatically

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  Automatically launching the debugger for a particular executable.

• The C library's strcmp routine is badly named

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  My thoughts on the ill-named strcmp function.

• LCD screen hackery

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  Some ideas on improving the LCD display on the Weebox.

• IO Completion Ports

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  One of the better features in Windows. Sadly, very awkward to use correctly.

• IO Completion Ports - the UNIX equivalents

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  In which we learn the UNIX equivalents of IOCPs.

• How to make a pure virtual call

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  More of an anti-pattern than a how to - avoiding and/or diagnosing pure virtual function calls.

• Hacking about with stacks

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  An investigation of the processor stacks on Windows and Linux.

• Comments on hacking about with stacks

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  Justin's comments on my investigation of the processor stacks on Windows and Linux.

• Another weekend and some more data recovery

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  More fiddling in trying to get NTFS disk data back for my Dad.

• Samba PDC problems after changing server IP

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 10:10

  A strange problem with Samba PDCs if their IP addresses change.

• BBC BASIC V file format

  Posted: 14 Nov 2007 at 11:35

  Exploring the BBC BASIC V file format. It's pretty damned clever.