Since I posted my “Sling Blade Runner” answer, I’ve been in discussion with Benjamin Meyer about the puzzle, my solution, and other general topics. During this discussion, he shared his solution with me, and as a collaboration, we found a set of movie titles that is 326 movies long. The original list of [...]
Lately, I’ve been without a project to keep me busy at nights (hence all my blog posts). I’m learning python, but since my main gig is C/C++, I like to keep those skills sharp with little puzzles. While looking for interesting coding puzzles, I stumbled across a page at ITA Software that asks [...]
Recently, my wife and I went to the local Borders, and I saw O’Reilly’s Beautiful Code. Since the book has sat in my Amazon queue for months, I was excited to get a chance to peruse it. So, I gleefully sat down, cracked the cover, and proceeded to read a number of chapters.
I’ll [...]
Recently, I’ve been writing a fair amount of threaded C++ POSIX code, and (as I often do), I decided to wrap the POSIX mutexes in a convenient little wrapper class:
class Mutex
{
pthread_mutex_t mMutex;
public:
Mutex() { pthread_mutex_init(&mMutex, NULL); }
~Mutex() { pthread_mutex_destroy(&mMutex); }
void [...]
There’s a shortcoming in NSBezierPath that bugged me for years — there is no easy way to tell if an NSPoint is in the bezier path. Fear not, here is a category on NSBezierPath that supplies a function for finding whether or not a point is in an NSBezierPath.
{
if([myBezierPath pointInStroke:thePoint])
[...]
I don’t want my blog to become a C++ lovefest, but I just seem to keep running into possible topics within the language to post about.
Recently, I ran across an article on embedded.com by Alan Anderson. I love everything he says in the article, save one paragraph:
Given the drawbacks to all of these approaches, [...]