December 2008
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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 if … -
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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! -
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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 … -
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Latest release of licensed socket server code: 5.2.4
The latest release of The 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. We now compile with … -
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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 backed up automatically. I have a spare … -
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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 … -
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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 … -
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Shared locks and unique locks
In one of the original articles that introduced The Free 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 …