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Setting Source Control Text Editors
This post will cover how to set the default text editor used by git or mercurial via the command line. The default text editor is used whenever the version control system requires us to enter a message, like a commit message.
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Windows 10 Linux Development
This post covers the starting steps required to start developing c or c++ programs for Linux inside Windows 10 using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
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Fixing Visual Studio 2015 C++ Comment Highlighting
Incorrectly highlighted comment. Due to a bug in the current build of Visual Studio 2015 C++ comments starting with three forward slashes are highlighted in a different colour to all other comments.
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Configuring Python's logging Module with argparse
This post assumes you’re familiar with and using Python’s logging module to log info from your script. If you don’t care about how it works skip to the end to see the code for the full solution.
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Batch File Tips and Tricks
A collection of some useful snippets for batch files.
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Running ThoughtWorks Go Server as a Mac OS X Launch Daemon
ThoughtWorks Go is a continuous delivery system that has recently become open source and free to use. This guide will talk you through the steps necessary to get the Go Server up and running as a Mac OS X Launch Daemon so there is no need to log in to start the server.
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Finding all #includes in a file using libclang and Python
For a good introduction in to using libclang and Python see here.
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Finding Visual Studio Command IDs and Guids
If you close all open instances of Visual Studio 2012 add the following undocumented registry key to your registry:
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Exporting C++ from dlls
This post will cover how to export functions from a windows dynamic-link library starting with the basics and then covering some more advanced examples. The first part of this explanation is very similar to this msdn article, so if you already know that you may want to skip ahead to the Advanced Exporting section.
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C++ template syntax
This post will cover some less common syntax that is useful when dealing with templates. The class used to demonstrate the syntax is only as an example, it is not supposed to be a good example of a working smart pointer class.