BOOST_WITH Reloaded

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During preparation and presentation of a Lightning Talk about my BOOST_WITH Macro at the C++Now 2015 Conference, three important issues showed need for being addressed:

  1. The if statement solution with an unused (and useless) condition variable leads to compiler warnings. This is a noteworthy fail, since compiler warnings were part of my motivation for developing the macro in the first place!
  2. You could write code like 
    BOOST_WITH(whatever) {} // if(true) {}
else foo();

    – which is clearly not desirable.

  3. An alternative implementation, using a single-pass for loop suffers a similar problem – you could break and continue in a BOOST_WITH block.

The Macro clearly had to be revisited…

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Python style ‘with’ in C++

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I have developed a simple macro that enables Python style ‘with’ in C++.

This being said, I feel the urgent need for a short foreword…

  • Yes. ITS_A_MACRO. If you’re already tempted to email me about how bad an idea macros are, go ahead. I can take it. Naturally, I would prefer this to be part of the language.
  • This is not about enabling Python style programming in C++, but about bringing in a nice concept from another language. Think about it: Python is very similar to C++ with respect to resource ownership and management (RAII).

The motivation are familiar bugs like these:

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fische 4 user guide

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There’s a notorious lack of documentation when it comes to running fische. I know that, and this is an attempt to improve.

This is going to be very Linux-specific, as I have close to no knowledge of Windows, and only some of OS-X. I would very much appreciate contributions of people who know.

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fishBMC merged into XBMC

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fishBMC has been merged into XBMC and will be part of the next major release for Linux and OS-X. Any download links you may still find on this page are probably outdated. If you would like to see fishBMC in action, you can use a prerelease version of XBMC 13 “Gotham”.

Who got the balls?

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I just have to publicly state my complete disappointment with international politicians.

Please, could one – just one – country in this world have enough balls and grant asylum to a whistle-blower who is faced with unjust prosecution in his home country – by the way, a country where murder is a routine form of punishment?

Maybe if I told you this man made an invaluable contribution to maintaining freedom and privacy word-wide?

Anyone?

NETGEAR ReadyNAS

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I recently purchased a NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo for my small home network. Having made the experience that NETGEAR make very good hardware with not-so-good firmware and virtually nonexistent and useless documentation, I had done some prior research and had found out the ReadyNAS is essentially a debian Linux box. Since I also wanted to use the box as a print server, I had also looked for and found a hardware compatibility list that included my printer.

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