Anyone familiar with my open source work knows that a major focus of my work is on portability, but it recently occurred to me that a lot of people probably don t know why. For example, some of my portability-focused projects include: Hedley — a C/C++ header to let you take advantage of features which may Continue reading "Portability is Reliability"
A while back I started working on a project called Squash, and today I m pleased to announce the first release, version 0.5. Squash is an abstraction layer for general-purpose data compression (zlib, LZMA, LZ4, etc.). It is based on dynamically loaded plugins, and there are a lot of them (currently 25 plugins to support 42 Continue reading "Squash 0.5 and the Squash Benchmark"
If you re like me, when you download a project and want to build it the first thing you do is look for a configure script (or maybe ./autogen.sh if you are building from git). Lots of times I don t bother reading the INSTALL file, or even the README. Most of the time this works out Continue reading "Making CMake more user-friendly"
I am pleased to announce a blog aggregator for the Vala community, which will be hosted at http://planet.vala-project.org/. The Venus configuration information is in a the nemequ/planet-vala repository on GitHub, so if you know of anyone who blogs about Vala please file an issue or pull request to add the blog. Like most Planets that Continue reading "Announcing Planet Vala"