Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Giving An FTDI Serial Port A Persistent Device Node

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There are plenty of perfectly good reasons why one might have several FTDI USB-to-serial adaptors attached to the same PC at the same time...
Saturday, 9 April 2011

The Failure Mode Of Agile Development

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Here’s the “traditional” waterfall model of software development: +------------+------------+------------+ | Design | Implement | Te...
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Saturday, 22 January 2011

Is “Factory Method” An Anti-Pattern?

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Let’s take another look at this version of the “two implementations, one interface” code from that one about portability : // Event.h v8 c...
Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Quirking a Mac Pro into AHCI mode

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The Apple Mac Pro (2006 model) has an Intel ESB2 south-bridge, which includes the SATA controller. Under MacOS, this SATA controller is d...
Monday, 31 May 2010

Portability, Or Cut-And-Paste?

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Suppose you’ve got some functionality with two completely different implementations on different platforms: // Event.h v1 class Event //...
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Think Same: Mapping An Apple Keyboard Like It’s A Normal One

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The aluminium “laptop-style” Apple keyboards are really nice: quick and easy to type on. I’ve got one on my main Linux machine. But they’re ...
Sunday, 31 January 2010

How Facebook Wasted An Hour And A Half Of My Life

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Now it should be admitted up-front that in fact, taken as a whole, Facebook has in fact wasted far more than an hour and a half of my life. ...
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