Category Archives: Programming

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Optimising performance: Strings, maps, sets

Posted on 24.8.2009 by Anteru

I had to optimise the performance of my research stuff lately to get into near-interactive rates — with a few new insights how to quickly improve code which uses lots of strings and complex data structures. Note that this is … Continue reading →

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Unit testing introduction

Posted on 10.8.2009 by Anteru

I’m a fan of unit tests since I started writing them. So far, they also turned out to be very valuable, even if added late to a project, so let’s take a look at this whole unit test thing – … Continue reading →

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Building Qt from source with Visual Studio

Posted on 13.7.2009 by Anteru

In case you do UI development, Qt 4.5 and later is now a very interesting alternative since it is licensed under the LGPL. However, if you use Visual Studio, you’ll find that there are no precompiled binaries, so you have … Continue reading →

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Useful HTML reports

Posted on 25.6.2009 by Anteru

While doing research, you sometimes run into the situation where you are getting loads and loads of results, and you need to create nice reports to simplify the analysis. Often this is tabular data, sometimes you might be able to … Continue reading →

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