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December 01, 2008

Comments are off for a while
I'm in the process of moving the blog from one host to another and until I get all of the perl configuration working so that the various comment spam protection methods are working properly I'm turning off comments. Email me...

December 02, 2008

Comments are back on...
The move to the new hosting server is complete and all the perl config has been done so I've turned comments back on!...

December 03, 2008

DevPartner Studio 9.0 and VS2008
It seems that there's a 'known issue' with DevPartner studio's instrumentation and VS2008. Apparently the compiler architecture changed somewhat between VS2005 and VS2008 and sometimes the instrumentation is incorrect which is the cause of my 'strange crashes' with DevPartner 9.0....

December 09, 2008

Latest release of licensed socket server code: 5.2.4
The latest release of the licensed version of the socket server framework is now available. This release includes the following changes. The following changes were made to the libraries. Admin Library - 5.2.4 We no longer support Visual Studio 6....

December 11, 2008

The great source code shuffle...
I'm in the process of moving my source code from a CVS repository to Subversion. The main reason for the move is so that I can move the repository onto one of my NAS devices so that it can be...

December 18, 2008

More code shuffling...
The CVS to SVN code migration is going well. As recommended by a commenter I've switched from using a script to pull my tools libraries from their repository into the server framework examples build tree to using svn:externals. This works...

December 19, 2008

How do you convert a number to a string in C++ with MSVC...
Converting a numeric type to a string format in C++ is one of those problems that was 'solved' a long time ago. The 'standard' method usually involves streaming the type to be converted into a std::stringstream and then extracting the...

December 23, 2008

Shared locks and unique locks
In one of the original articles that introduced the socket server framework I mentioned that the original design was possibly lacking in that it required a critical section per connection and that this could be resource intensive. Shortly after I...