Monthly Archives: August 2008

GnuWin32 – Saving you form proprietary

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Shishir Sharma 'criss'

As we all know all the windows user are cursed by proprietary policy. Its very difficult to find common useful tools which are available on Linux. I [Shishir Sharma] recently needed indenting tool on Windows XP. Then obvious choice is … Continue reading →

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Irshad इरशाद

Posted on August 16, 2008 by Shishir Sharma 'criss'

Vaibhav mathur Dil me jazbaat ka ek gubar sa uthta hai, jise alfaaz ki surat pe nibha deta hun, zehen pe khalayat ka karz sa rehta hai, jise sher ki keemat pe chuka deta hun… दिल में जज़्बात का एक … Continue reading →

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Safe C++ Design Principles

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Shishir Sharma 'criss'

If you want to learn software design and you are choosing the C++ language then Safe C++ Design Principles by Thomas J. Hruska, III is probably the best choice. It’s a high quality software design book. I am member of … Continue reading →

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Desktop Calculator

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Shishir Sharma 'criss'

I always appreciate coding in standard C++. Desktop Calculator is a application coded in Standard C++. It is a application based on the example 6.1 in the book “The C++ Programming Language”, Third Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup. Desktop Calculator is … Continue reading →

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Customizing Command Prompt

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Shishir Sharma 'criss'

Well many times this happens that we want to work with the command prompt. Sometimes we wanna work with many CLI (command line interface). We usually SET the %PATH% variable of system or specific user for this. Things get really worse when we wanna work with more them one version of same Application/Compiler/System. We can’t set the variable as all have similar directory structure and almost same binary/executable names. Continue reading →

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