Monthly Archives: October 2008

Visual Studio 2010 preview released

Posted on 28.10.2008 by Anteru

Today Microsoft released a preview of the Visual Studio 2010 with partial C++0x support. This should be also based on their new, Phoenix based compiler, and brings the most important features like auto, rvalues and lambdas. There is a post … Continue reading →

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The quest for the right UI toolkit

Posted on 20.10.2008 by Anteru (Updated on 6.11.2010)

Graphical user interfaces are not really a new invention, and still, I don’t see that any vendor has come up with a really good toolkit for creating GUIs. What’s taking them so long, and where are we actually heading with … Continue reading →

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Reading recommendation: Pragmatic programmer

Posted on 13.10.2008 by Anteru

If you really enjoy programming, then this book is for you: The pragmatic programmer. Finally a book that does not try to put programming into a software engineering corset, but treats it more as a craft. Of course you still … Continue reading →

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Back, catching up

Posted on 6.10.2008 by Anteru

I’ve been totally cut off for the last two weeks (no internet access at all; the posts you saw were pre-recorded), and quite a lot happened in these two weeks. Coming back, I’ve found: A new version of AnkhSVN CMake … Continue reading →

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