Recently, I started to use the autotools for building a project. But I am really unhappy with it – although a lot of special cases can be handled by the toolchain, it is extremely complex to use and prone to user errors. Auto-Hell, I guess… So, this code kata is dedicated to the alternative CMake package. I have written a simple C++ program to solve problem #2 of Project Euler.
Continue reading… Code Kata: Project Euler #2 with CMake
Posted by md
on April 06, 2008
Recently, I started to use the autotools for building a project. But I am really unhappy with it – although a lot of special cases can be handled by the toolchain, it is extremely complex to use and prone to user errors. Auto-Hell, I guess… So, this code kata is dedicated to the alternative CMake package. I have written a simple C++ program to solve problem #2 of Project Euler.
Continue reading… Code Kata: Project Euler #1
Posted by md
on March 30, 2008
Following the example of doing code katas, I spend my sunday morning thinking about integer performance in C++. Project Euler provides a nice collection of mathematical problems. As it turns out, some of my assumptions on C++ were totally wrong :-)
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When it’s cloudy…
Posted by md
on February 18, 2008
After investigating Amazon’s EC2 service, we decided to roll out PHASTGrid, our service-oriented middleware, on the cloud. And, of course, just as we went for a customer demo, Amazon had some infrastructure problems and nothing worked.