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Surviving unscathed in a .net-managed world

Here’s a good article that explains how well the Visual Studio 2005 compiler can optimize .net managed C++ code. To me, it’s just further argument that “unmanaged” (“native”) (read: portable, non-MS-proprietary) C++ code is far superior. Is there anything in the .net API that is really really necessary that would be more difficult in straight C++? MS is committed to
making an effort to ensure that there is, so you go with their proprietary solutions. But I will always make an effort to code everything I can in portable clean C++, and link to .net managed C++ only when necessary.

And to follow up, here’s an article from Paul DiLascia, who’s been kicking a$$ with his C++ Q&A articles for decades, explaining how to link in .net code with unmanaged C++ code, on a MODULE-BY-MODULE basis! Excellent.

Update: There’s no stopping him, in his next article he shows how to “wrap (.net) Framework classes in a native way so you can use them in any C++/MFC app without /clr”.

Comments | Wednesday, February 23, 2005

HangTheDJ moves from VC6 to VS7

From CVS checkin comment:

“HTDJ is now VS 7 compatible. This means we start using the VS 7 ( VS .net 2003 ) compiler from now on – I do NOT want to have to deal with keeping it compatible with VC 6. Boost here we come!”

HangTheDJ stable build April 16, 2004 (old!)
HangTheDJ development build Feb 22, 2005

Comments | Tuesday, February 22, 2005

When the sanity’s slipping away, time to play… with Tomcat

Can’t seem to find a fc3 yum repository with fluxbox (wtf!), and my windoze box is locking up every 10 minutes, so I decided to attempt a Tomcat install so I could serve up cute little baby Java servlets for somebody at work. Following instructions here, which point to here, I did the following…

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Comments | Thursday, February 17, 2005

Next-gen PGP is GPG

I’ve been playing with PGP for a long time, and it was a sad day when it was sucked up and commercialized. There’s still a free version somewhere, but now there’s an open-source solution as well, GPG. Works great! Under Windoze, there’s a GUI called GPGshell that is very PGP-ish. Countrymen, send me your keys!