Archive for June, 2009

Eclipse – Exclude / de-exclude from build

Thursday, June 25, 2009 22:02 6 Comments

Sometimes working with Eclipse can be frustrating. I just spent an hour of my life looking how to include back a file into build that was excluded before (exclude from build). To spare you that drama, just go to: Project Preferences -> C/C++ General -> Paths & Symbols ->  Source Location Click on the folder [...]

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Doxygen

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 20:33 1 Comment

Doxygen is a source code documentation generator tool. Comment blocks are constructed like this: (JavaDoc style) /** *  multiline bloc… some text */ /// single ling comment… some text “some text” can be replaced with various special commands in order to make the generated documentation more user friendly. Doxygen special commans overview.

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Eclipse / Doxygen – Documentation Generator

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 19:22 No Comments

Doxygen is a well known source code documentation generator. More information about it is available on their homepage. For all those of you who prefer Eclipse as your main development platform there is a plugin that provides a high-level graphical user interface integration over Doxygen. More info about Eclox.

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C++ static keyword

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:10 No Comments

The static keyword can be used in the following situations. When you declare a variable or function at file scope (global and/or namespace scope), the static keyword specifies that the variable or function has internal linkage. When you declare a variable, the variable has static duration and the compiler initializes it to 0 unless you [...]

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C++ Generate random numbers in Range

Monday, June 8, 2009 17:06 No Comments

To make use of the rand() command you must include the cstdlib library #include <cstdlib> Before we generate a random number we call the srand(int) function to seed the randomizer so we dont get the same random number each time. #include <ctime> srand(time(NULL)); // time(NULL) returns seconds since 1.1.1970 To get the random number in [...]

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Eclipse square bracket [] problem

Saturday, June 6, 2009 18:04 No Comments

Some people will experience a problem with Eclipse when trying to close the square brackets []. Eclipse will complain about not beeing able to evaluate a text selection and it won’t allow you typing that closing bracket. I got frustrated a bit because of not knowing whats going on. It wasn’t possible to write simple [...]

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Douglas Crockford: “The JavaScript Programming Language”

Friday, June 5, 2009 19:29 No Comments

In 4 videos Douglas Crockford gives us a very good overview of Javascript. A must view material for everyone new to Javascript. Douglas Crockford: “The Javascript Programming Language”

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WordPress 2.7 – Missing the Visual Editor

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 21:07 No Comments

After upgrading to wordpress 2.7, suddenly the Visual editor was missing.  After doing a search about it on google, I realized that others had the same problem. Some suggested to reupload all the files, to turn off all plugins etc, but nothing helped. But the answer was easier then that. By clicking on the user [...]

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DatePicker – Mootools date picker control

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 12:35 No Comments

A very interesting and usefull date&time control. Its very small with only about 15kB, easy to install, skinnable and very configurable. DatePicker website

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The Mootorial – A Mootools Tutorial

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 12:26 No Comments

The Mootorial presents an extensive overview of the mootool javascript framework. A must read for all new motoolers.

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