Greetings all. This is just a short update. I had intended to have more of the libfoundation stuff done when disaster struck. This disaster came in the form of administering one of our NAS units which served 2 terabytes of movies, documentaries, music and more. Our NAS units (the US Robotics 2TB modules; these things [...]

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Greetings all;
As some or many of you know I have a lot of concurrently-running projects between DVD Metabase, Bitmimic, the parallel processing initiative and more. All of these projects use forms of IPC, multithreading, logging, configuration and so on. All of this stuff is already available at the low-level but when re-implementing these things errors [...]

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Greetings all. This will just a be short post to provide CMake Wizard 2.3. This is just a maintenance release to cover some changes in GCC that have come out recently that prevented the generated projects from compiling. Essentially it is just the inclusion of stdio.h to the file to provide the macro EOF for [...]

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Greetings. I have a couple of things to cover here so will get right to it.
1. Microlog 1.1a: It was pointed out to me that for all the tricks that it did, it was missing the basics of proritizing log message a la Info, Warning, Error. This has been fixed and is in the new [...]

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There are two things every programmer of multithreaded applications knows:
1. Logging is the simplest form of debugging for such systems.
2. The act of logging triggers context switches which changes the execution which in turn means the application behaves differently under debugging conditions than it does under normal conditions.
Often the application of #1 results in #2 [...]

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Man oh man have I had an experience. It stems largely from living in the Windows world when it was king (and therefore the only standard) and then moving to larger world of free software and real standards.  Like many in this down economy I am looking for work and in an effort to make [...]

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In this article:
* A new DVDMB C++ API
* To plug-in or not?
* To Mono or not?
* To Java or not?

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CMakeWizard 2.0 is here.
Howdy. It has been a while since I have updated this handy development tool. In case you don’t know, CMakeWizard is a simple set of Python scripts and C++ templates for jump-starting development projects. In short, you can start with an empty folder, run the CMakeWizard script and in seconds have a [...]

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Hi Folks;
Waaaay back in 2007 I wrote about coming up with a new development model for dealing with todays multicore systems and larger than life problems. The stories are here, here, here and here. As of here I outlined a problem that would fit our needs in developing such a system. It was a problem [...]

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This article is a profile on experiences I have had while being an administrator of an open source project. While some aspects of this have been published before, recent work in the world of proprietary software has highlighted in my mind a few of the more powerful aspects of living in a FOSS world that [...]

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