Monthly Archives: August, 2008
XSLT and Java Quick Tips (Xalan)
Recently at work, I’ve been using XSLT transforms in our backend quite a bit. But the issues I’ve run into took stupid amounts of effort to resolve and it wasnt easy to find any kind of list of do’s and dont’s – so I’m gonna make one from the stuff I’ve just discovered!
When dealing with [...]
Boost signals (1.36.0) vs. sigc++ (2.0.18)
Recently my engine has needed an upgrade to its event system (observer/publisher). Currently, there is little overhead involved but this is achieved by using macro’s which inline function calls. This is neither maintainable nor extensible and has lead to problems while trying to develop a reliable shutdown sequence for the engine (e.g. when fatal exceptions are caught) [...]
Super-quick-how-to install Boost 1.36.0
Just because for a standard install, its really simple, but you have to read the getting started guide which has alot of info, but it’s not necessarily “to the point”, if you know what I mean.
Download Boost 1.36.0 and Bjam (http://www.boost.org/users/download)
Add Bjam to the PATH if you haven’t already
Navigate into where you extracted the boost [...]
Coming soon…
The blog has been playing up lately, looks like it is sorted now, and it will be getting up and running soon.