Sep 02 2010
It continues to surprise me that people who write software for a living these days (i.e professional developers) have no understanding of what byte order marks are and how they relate to different encodings. Most developers I interact with have no clue – including of course how EF BB BF differs from FF FE. Also so few of them have a understanding of linefeeds and how that differs from Unix to Windows.
If this is the trend, then it probably is not a good sign of the times to come.
Aug 08 2010
I think many of us can relate to this – including my current project. 
Aug 08 2010
Unfortunately (or fortunately), depending on your perspective, this is so me!
Still no sleep
Jul 28 2010
This is quite cool – now only if MS hurry’s up and incorporated this to Bing Maps.
Jun 28 2010
Just upgraded the blog to WordPress 3.0 – two clicks and I was done – can it get any simpler? What a pleasant surprise compared to the pile of crap that CS 2007+ turned out to be. Try upgrading that in something like two clicks? Ha! Well done WordPress!
Jun 25 2010
Next post in the interesting find series.
Jun 21 2010
… the average wife spends nearly 8,000 minutes a year nagging her husband!
Jun 20 2010
This computer hardware chart is quite cool. Not sure why, where and who would want to use this. But, it does beg the question – can things get any geekier?
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Apr 18 2010
When you try and compile some code and you get an error along the lines of invalid use of an incomplete type ‘whatever type’ then in most cases it means you need to include the header file where that type is displayed.
For example I had the following events in my header file:
protected:
void mousePressEvent(QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent *event);
void mouseReleaseEvent(QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent *event);
When when I tried to compile gave the following error:
invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent’
This was because the compiler could not find details of the struct and hence the details. To fix the problem I need to include the header.
This of course is similar to the initialized but not complete error but subtly different.