Monthly Archives: December 2006

Visual Studio 2005 SP1

Yesterday, Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2005 SP 1. Unfortunately, it seems a rather serious bug has crept in – read on for details, especially if you are an active Qt user.

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More timings

Some more timings related to my previous post. My desktop went down from 37 to 27 secs and my other workstation from 40 to 29.

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Optimising compile times with precompiled headers

Inside niven, I’ve been using precompiled headers since the first version. Read on for some insights I gained over the years.

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Java SE 6 is out

The Java SE 6 runtime is available for download. It has a much improved desktop integration compared to 5.0 – finally Java Applications don’t look like strangers on my Windows XP desktop.

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