I have pre-ordered Apple iPhone 3G from my neighboring AT&T store last Sunday (Jul 20). I have done this as purchasing from the Apple Store wouldn’t let me to apply my FAN discounts on the plan. Applying it latter would reflect only after a couple of billing cycles. Also I don’t wanna get into the [...]
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On my OpenSolaris. What could be more exciting than this? praveen@athena:~$ /opt/sfw/bin/emacs Since I started using Emacs, I started using the Control key more than I had used it before. That is when I started using my Caps Lock key as Control key. In the beginning, I swapped the Control key and the Caps Lock key. However while doing pair programming on my computer, my colleagues found [...] I have no affiliation with the Passport Office. I wouldn’t be able to answer any questions about passport statuses. Please don’t ask me about your case. The site of Regional Passport Office of Chennai has a page to inquire about the passport application case status. If you just enter the passport application file number, the status [...] Lately I was encountering segmentation fault with one of our processes and found that it was not dumping core file even though we asked it by using appropriate ulimit setting. It was set-UIDed root. Then I discovered that the default behavior of set-UID, set-GID processes is not to dump core unless explicitly asked by prctl(2). [...] I have been using GNU Emacs for programming for nearly 9 years now. It is exciting to keep discovering new extensions to Emacs throughout. I have heard of Ange-FTP before that can be used for remote file editing using FTP. However, I have never tried remote file editing on a local Emacs session. In most [...] I have been a highly inactive blogger these days. It doesn’t mean that I have too many things to take care of. For some reason, I felt that I lost interest in blogging for some time now. Every week I would have found at least a couple things to write about. I would also start [...] I am casually evaluating CppUnit lately. It is pretty good. I was using the CompileOutputter as the outputter for CppUnit tests. However, the default settings for gcc is not Emacs friendly for multi-directory projects. To overcome this, I had to set the location format of the CompilerOuputter to “%p:%l:”. CppUnit::CompilerOutputter *outputter = new CppUnit::CompilerOutputter( &runner.result(), std::cerr [...] In the unit testing world, sometimes we encounter a situation where we need to unit test private or protected member functions. There is a lot of arguments surrounding this topic. Some claim that if a private member function needs testing, it implies that there is a need for refactoring. However, I strongly feel that protected [...] |
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