Knocked out my mythtv box with a hasty half-finished emerge, making the whole family disappointed in the loss of movies and TV. Here’s how to stage an upgrade properly. (continued…)
Time to update boost to version 1.35 under linux, now that I’ve updated it under Windoze. (continued…)
I used to use all the beta Microsoft products, now I find it more efficient to move up when I’m ready – and when things have matured. However, a look at the boost regression tests shows that VC7.1 support is getting a bit lean, at least for the serialization library I use. So… time to move on up. Here is how the upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0 went for my HangTheDJ project… (continued…)
Sometimes there’s no end to the work when scraping web pages – perfect the scrape, and it’s only a matter of time before the scraped page changes format. But sometimes it’s worth it to keep plugging – I use my Google Framed scrape thousands of times a week, every week. For me, I don’t think I can ever go back to vanilla google.
In 10 seconds or less, using the boost project as an example… (continued…)
