Recently I got bit by void* again because of another C++ quirk I didn’t think through. I had a class which wrapped a void* which could be one of many different structs. The structs were POD and didn’t have any shared functionality hence I didn’t bother creating an inheritance hierarchy. Unfortunately I defined the structs like so

Quick script you can run at login to ensure that your XP machine is being defragmented. I chose 1:00 AM every evening but you can quickly alter that in the script. I have this script run as part of my regular set of configuration scripts to ensure that my XP machines are in good shape.

One operation I frequently perform is use a powershell pipeline to filter out a large set of data. Typically I don’t care what is in the result but rather is there actually anything left in the pipeline. I can’t find a good powershell built-in to perform this task so I use the following filter.

I finished reading Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering a few weeks ago. This is an excellent book and I recommend it for anyone who’s been in the industry for a few years.

Nothing revolutionary about that statement. Yet I keep reading the opposite on various comment threads and message boards so I thought it a good idea to explore it again.