Yesterday, I came across this interesting article Handling errors is canceling operations. While it’s mostly focused on C++, I found most of it being generic enough, that it also fits with other languages. The most interesting section to me, was the following paragraph: Exception handling is not a tool for broadcasting information about any failure in […]
Author: eXpl0it3r
Windows Server on WD Sentinel DS6100
Recently I have acquired a WD Sentinel DS6100 server and over the 2018 Christmas holidays I’ve been playing around with it and want to share my experiences over multiple blog posts. Looking at online reviews for the WD Sentinel DS6100, it seems like this has been a lucky model, as it has lasted for over […]
Your Windows is a Hypervisor
For the longest time I’ve either picked VirtualBox or less often VMware whenever I needed a virtual machine. Only a few months ago I learned at work that Windows 10 comes with its own Hypervisor called Hyper-V. Usually you have to enable Hyper-V, but then it’s really easy to use. As a bonus note, if […]
Fetch GitHub Pull Requests Locally
It’s by no means a secret thing and Google will be the first to tell you, but by the off chance that someone hasn’t thought about it, here’s just the command how to do it. git fetch origin pull/<id>/head:<branch> <id> refers to the pull request id on GitHub<branch> refers to a custom branch name of […]
Visual Studio Tip: Save Layouts
When working a lot with Visual Studio, you’ll run into the issue of managing your windows properly. You may spend quite some time figuring out the perfect layout, only to have Visual Studio randomly move a window around again, when you have to restart Visual Studio. Or you keep rearranging your windows depending on what […]
Kirby CMS & Plugins
For many years I’ve been playing around with various PHP-based content management systems (CMS). From self-made to well-known ones like Drupal, I’ve seen quite a range and yet they all never really could provide enough flexibility for the developer and easy of use for the website maintainer at the same time. I don’t want to […]
Top 5 Podcast I Listen To
It’s interesting how things develop. I remember quite well how my brother used to download and listen to interesting podcasts 10 or so years ago, yet it felt like podcasts lost on popularity over the past years and only now is again gaining some major uplift. There are many YouTubers out there who noticed the […]
Generate a DEF file from a DLL
Last night I spend multiple hours trying to get a non-broken CSFML build ready, which requires to have import libraries for MSVC and GCC that both depend on the same DLL. This works because the import library only points to the symbols that are in the DLL, thus acts as sort of instruction how to […]
When fitness tracking reveal bases
The other day I stumbled up on a thread in my Twitter feed, where people have located army bases based on fitness tracking heat maps released by Strava. Here’s an example of what the data looks like: Drone base in Djibouti Soldiers running around the perimeter or just a simple patrol? Nice drones!
Rule of Thumb – Linking Order
Those newer to programming in C++ often fail to understand that compilers like GCC or Clang require a specific link order for the libraries in use or they don’t know what order to pick. Working on SFML and helping out in its community, I’ve had the pleasure to help people fix their linker errors many […]