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Another Sprint, Another Release - we're on the Grid
Yesterday saw the end of another sprint , and a milestone for the current project. We finally managed to get the Informix drivers installed on the UAT grid, followed by a release of the pricing service. This was a major step forwards - it feels like we...
Posted: Nov 12 2005, 07:03 AM by mdavey | with 1 comment(s)
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Visual C++ error messages, another feature I want in Orcas
I really hate unhelpful errors. Take this one I got today: error C2733: second C linkage of overloaded function 'select' not allowed Now the error message itself is fine. I can click on the messages, and it takes me to the offending line of code, but...
Posted: Sep 02 2005, 10:53 AM by mdavey | with 1 comment(s)
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Feature request for Visual C++ Orcas
g++ has a cool feature that shows you the files that were traversed when an error occurs: In file included from /cygdrive/c/opt/omniORB-4.0.3/include/omniORB4/CORBA.h:444, from someheaderfile.h:10, from sourcefile.cpp:3: /cygdrive/c/opt/omniORB-4.0.3...
Posted: Aug 24 2005, 03:33 PM by mdavey | with 4 comment(s)
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Surf's up, C++ debugging
I'm off to Bude this weekend for a bit of surfing. Hope the weather give me some decent waves. Anyway, back to the day job. I'm in the middle of some debugging. I have a Win32 EXE that does a CreateProcess and starts another EXE - don't ask why. I was...
Posted: Aug 16 2005, 11:26 AM by mdavey | with 2 comment(s)
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Battling Code
For the last week or so I've been battling to understand some 500K lines of C++ code, with no comments, no unit tests, and no documentation - brain ache. I'm thankful for Peter's blog reminding me that the VC++ directory settings are incorrectly stored...
Posted: Aug 07 2005, 07:39 PM by mdavey | with no comments
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CppUnit
The team I am currently working on is about to undertake some C++ work. In true TDD style we're looking at CppUnit as a way to write unit tests. I was probably hoping a bit too much to be able to download the package ( 1.10.2 ) from SourceForge, load...
Posted: Jul 22 2005, 08:46 AM by mdavey | with no comments
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