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Nothing Sucks Like A Vax! - June 28, 2008

We moved into our new office this week (photos courtesy of MAD, thanks!), and it's pretty damned awesome! Considering the small size of the office (in number of people), it is extremely nice, the food is great, and so is the view (we had a nice view from the 24th floor, but now we're more "in the action", I like that better). Plus, we can easily reach the wifi from the pub nearby, hehe!While the move was ongoing, we had an off-site activity on le-Ste-Hlne that was pretty cool, involving, among..
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Putting Thoughts Together - June 20, 2008

Something that I have said a number of times is that nowadays, there is almost no reason to pick C over C++ for a new project (one of the few reasons that I know of involve writing execute-in-place code for very small embedded systems, so no, GNOME definitely doesn't qualify!). Worst case, you write exactly the same code you'd have written in C, just avoiding using the new keywords as identifiers, and you then get better warnings (remember, no templates would be involved) and stricter type...
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