Monthly Archives: January 2011
Incorrect C++ compiler behavior in Visual Studio
[Note: Special credit for this post goes to my colleague Yuliy Gerchikov, who first discovered this issue] As most C++ programmers know, an object that has been constructed via the new expression must be destroyed by calling delete. The delete-expression … Continue reading
Filed under Programming, Tools
Stern-Brocot Tree
Stern-Brocot tree is a tree data structure whose vertices correspond to the set of non-negative rational numbers. Thus, this tree provides a very elegant way for constructing the set of fractions m/n, where m and n are relatively prime. To … Continue reading
Filed under Algorithms
Manual Memory Management in Objective-C
Objective-C on iOS has no garbage collector, so it is up to the programmer to make sure that memory is properly freed once an object is no longer needed. On the other hand, Objective-C on the Mac does have a … Continue reading
Filed under Cocoa
Snapshots in Xcode
When writing code, I usually write code in an incremental fashion. I try to get one set of functionality to work before I start on the next set. Due to this, I frequently create incremental backups of my files/project before … Continue reading
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet … Continue reading
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