Was playing with Excel today. For some reason I managed to go all this time without noticing the array expressions in formulas. (The Ctrl-Shift kind, not the basic =SUM(A1:A10) kind.) Unfortunately debugging these expressions seems to be a real PITA when they get complex enough, especially if it in…

It's a good thing I'm keeping this journal otherwise I might have forgotten what the last thing I planned to work on for my personal code library was. Yay, codecvt<>s. Of course, I still can't find my copy of "Standard C++ IO Streams and Locales", so I guess I will be cashing in on that Addis…

Nothing much happening in personal development projects lately. Things have been busy both with work and other commitments. So I guess I'll just post a blurb about programming philosophy today.

As you might see from my posting history, I tend to use C++ almost exclusively in my personal projects. I …

Yeah, I got bored with the funked out ugly layout for the journal already. There's something evil that I want to try with the template tommorrow. If no one hears from me in the near future, assume that gods of all that are good in the world have smote me with lighting before I could unleash my horr…

That was entirely too much fun. Of course maybe it does sort of push the journal's layout boundaries just a bit. Just a bit.

Just playing with journal templates. Nothing to see here.

Today I've been trying to track down a parsing bug that's been driving me up the wall for quite some time. I haven't found it yet. Grrr.

I was trying to look up one of my buddies from college who was into music stuff to see if I could get him to crank out a few tracks for me. He was supposed to have moved into my area, except when I finally grab a hold of him I found out he moved to Lake Forest, California, not Lake Forest, Illinois…

Dodecahellspawn is winding down, so I'm considering what to do for a project to replace it. Right now I'm considering a few different things. One, there's that Qualcomm OpenGL ES contest which sounds like it could be fun, if I could just think of something to do for it. Secondly, I could get off my…

For lack of anything better to post, I'll share a stupid mistake I've made with you all. I created a function object for use with the std::sort() algorithm that depended on a external object, so I decided to store a reference. It basically looked like:

class Sorter {
  public:
    Sorter(const Object …