See my previous two posts on an introduction to placement new if you are unfamiliar with the subject.

This is a follow up for my previous post about operator new and placement new. This post will discuss the role of adding a custom allocator and using it with new.

Originally I was going to write this article to detail a particular problem I had recently with placement new in C++. A page or two of writing later I decided it would be best to start with an introduction to the “new” operator itself and the in/outs of overloading/replacing it. The C++ new operator really functions as a 2 step process.

Debugging PowerShell can be extremely frustrating because it often turns into a session of debugging your own thought process. Often when I hit a PowerShell script issue I find myself feeling like everything is right and I’m just missing something basic. IMHO, this is because I spend the majority of my day programming in compiled languages and don’t completely come out of that box when I’m programming in PowerShell.

When you need to search for text in a file, select-string is your best friend. It has most of the functionality of old unix grep. In addition it does full regular expression support.