Jeff (tpjeff)

Jeff

Created a bug by passing 0 to a function taking a string. NULL being 0 in #cplusplus is unfortunate, but #cpp11's nullptr can sometimes help

Jeff

In #cplusplus "else if" is not a special case. You can do "else for", "else try", etc. No need for an inner block and extra indent

Jeff

Using shell scripts in an Xcode build phase, it helps to pass -e to the shell to ensure that the build fails if a command fails

Jeff

boost::make_transform_iterator makes iterators more useful. Easily do things like initialize a const string vector from a set of ints #cpp

Jeff

My spell checker apparently has a wrong spelling of Francisco

Jeff

Heading to San Fransisco for #WWDC

Jeff

Just got the @humble bundle V. This one looks awesome. Props to everyone on the list, the top 10 are all $1K or over

Jeff

SCM server is unreachable, but thanks to #git I can easily push elsewhere. It even works with a simple scp path if the remote has git

Jeff

Piping to/from the clipboard while in the terminal is handy. Use pbcopy/pbpaste on Mac, xsel --clipboard on Linux

Jeff

"open" is nice compared to "xdg-open"/"gnome-open". It seems taken on Ubuntu (and it's easy to alias), but it would be more obvious

Jeff

I like how the #osx terminal rewraps text as it resizes, and its ability to clear all scrollback excluding the current line (cmd-k)

Jeff

Love that tab completion in bash on #ubuntu works for much more than local paths, including git commands and scp remote paths

Jeff

In #cplusplus, a deeply included header will sometimes remove a dependency that is unknowingly relied on elsewhere, breaking the build

Jeff

Considering a system, we tend to focus on intended uses to the exclusion of alternate ones, such as how it can be used against us

Jeff

#python taught us that tabs are sufficient. #cplusplus could allow omitting brackets in more places (eg single statement try catch blocks)

Jeff System76 , Novacut

Good stuff happening this weekend at the Rocky Mtn Pinball Showdown, and the Ubuntu 12.04 release party w/ @system76 and @novacut

Jeff

#featurerequest explicitly pass default params in #cplusplus createDir("a/b/c", default, true). Named params would be even better

Jeff

We use system() wrappers that collect stdout, chain stderr back up, and throw on non-0 exit. Helps with scripts that invoke scripts

Jeff

UIViewController: What problem is better solved with a second hierarchy that parallels the UIView hierarchy?

Jeff

Is it a sad state of affairs for IDEs when XCode 4 is a big improvement, yet I'm nearly constantly irritated with it? #cpp