Just in case if someone as myself have missed presentation of His Excellence Mr. Walter E. Brown at CppCon 2014 Part I (above) and Part II
Modern Template Metaprogramming: A Compendium
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BlockNote on KickStarter
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I have started BlockNote campaign on Kickstarter That is about funding of BlockNote2 development: WYSIWYG HTML editor for the rest of us that will work on Windows, Mac and Linux. BlockNote editor was free last 10 years and if you have found it handy please donate if you can. Each river starts from a small…
50 million PCs are running Sciter or HTMLayout code.
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Quite conservative estimation of number of PCs and Mac’s running either Sciter or HTMLayout code is 50 million worldwide so far. Thanks to Sciter/HTMLayout customers and their great applications. UPDATE: I’ve been told that at least one of companies from the list has 90 million registered users. So the total number is way above 100…
10 years road to Sciter
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Last year it was a jubilee of my BlockNote editor – it is 10 years old now. Quite a serious age for software product I think. BlockNote, in particular its HTML WYSIWYG editing engine, was the very first version of H-SMILE core that works now inside the Sciter. H-SMILE core was used in other software…
History of one web UI component
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10 or so years ago I was asked to design Word Processor WYSIWYG editing component. The editor should handle editing of paged documents. It has notion of pages where document text is replaced. The text can wrap around absolutely positioned (page box related) blocks – images, text boxes, etc. To be short – something like…
Usability of tree and paged lists
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I’ve found first answer in this topic on StackExchange extremely representative. That reminded me discussion we had when were designing the first version of Evernote application. Initially the Evernote has UI organized as “endless tape of notes”. Here is one of sketches that I did at that time: Challenge there was to provide UI that…
Comments in source code considered harmful
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In the file ResourceFontFileLoader.h (offical Windows SDK samples) you can see variable declared as: static IDWriteFontFileLoader* instance_; As you see it is a raw pointer here. And in the file ResourceFontFileLoader.cpp it is initialized with this: // Smart pointer to singleton instance of the font file loader. IDWriteFontFileLoader* ResourceFontFileLoader::instance_( new(std::nothrow) ResourceFontFileLoader() ); Note the comment….
V.I.Lenin with Mao balancing on his head and myself.
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Full name of this sculpture is “Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head”. It is installed here in Richmond, BC, Canada. Standing near it was thinking a lot. The idea has something in it. I grew up with these names everywhere in USSR. And it is history now. Sic transit…
UI programming you said?
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Usually business applications are split in three tiers: user interface layer (UI), business logic layer (BLL) and data access layer (DAL). That split is also known as Model-view-controller architectural pattern. Ideally each layer should be isolated from the rest. For many good reasons. In any case each layer operates using its own vocabulary (namespace if…
Lemma #346 about taxes.
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Comparing taxes in US and Canada I came up with the following: Either you need higher taxes or you need to allow retail trade of guns.