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I'm not a fan of Microsoft. In fact, most of the time I really despise much of what comes out of Redmond, but I'm excited for Windows Vista to come out. No, I'm not excited because I plan on using it. No, I'm not excited because I think it has a lot to offer. From everything I've seen and read so far, there appears to be little new in Vista from a user standpoint. Maybe things will be easier to set up. (Who are we kidding? That won't happen.) Maybe it will be easier to navigate between different things you're doing with their eye candy that looks a lot like things Apple did in OS X years ago. But who cares? People will continue to beat into the ground how great Vista is and everything new that it has to offer. Others will continue to beat into the ground how those features have been around in other applications / operating systems for a long time. None of that really matters, though. What matters is how many people upgrade.

1 Comment Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Vista, Windows

This is more of a note to myself, but I've had to look up how to initialize a priority queue with a custom comparison function in C++ too many times (and it's always hard to find). It's really not hard, there's just not one good online source for the STL (someone please point one out if there is - or even a good pocket reference type book). Anyway, here's the code.... not too hard:

#include "event.h"
#include <queue>
using std::priority_queue;
class greater {
  public: int operator() (Event *x, Event *y) { return *x > *y; }
};
priority_queue< Event *, vector<Event *>, greater > _event_queue;

4 Comments Tags: C++, Code, Typo

I've been working on a new project for a while now. It's a web based image sharing application (tenatively called Snaps). Feel free to check out the trac on it. There's a sample gallery up as well. If there's anyone who would like to help out with the project, please contact me.

Update: Project discontinued.

No Comments Tags: Snaps, Software

It's been a while now that my blog's been offline. The URLs leading to it have also changed a good amount in the last month or so, and for the (two) people who subscribe to the blog via RSS, I'm sorry to change things up on you so much.

Everything's functional again, but now I'm on the Typo trunk because I couldn't get the current stable release that includes rails to work properly for me. I had a good number of problems setting things up with lightly, but managed my way through them. I might post something here later about that for other people setting things up. For now I'm going to keep sorting through the few issues I still have to sort out in my second webserver transition in a very short span.

I'm now on a NetworkRedux VPS account which has been extremely nice so far. I've learned a good amount about setting up a server and I'm sure I will continue to learn about it as things progress.

1 Comment Tags: Blog, NetworkRedux, Webserver