Monthly Archive for August, 2008

GnuWin32 – Saving you form proprietary

Published on August 18, 2008 in Technology. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

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 GNU INDENT. I have used it on fedora. Thanks to GnuWin32 which provides ports of tools with a GNU or similar open source license, to MS-Windows.

GnuWin32 provides ports of tools with a GNU or similar open source license, to MS-Windows (Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008). This is what they say about themselves.

The GnuWin32 project provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only on libraries provided with any standard 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista. Native ports do not rely on some kind of Unix emulation, such as CygWin or Msys, so that there is no need to install additional emulation libraries.

At present, all developments have been done under MS-Windows-XP, using the Mingw port of the GNU C and C++ (GCC) compilers. Utilities and libraries provided by GnuWin32, are used and distributed with packages such as GNU Emacs and KDE-Windows.
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By Shishir Sharma 'criss'

Irshad इरशाद

Published on August 16, 2008 in Friends. 1 Comment Tags: , .

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 गुबार सा उठता है,
जिसे अल्फाज़ की सूरत पे निभा देता हूँ,
ज़हन पे खलायत का क़र्ज़ सा रहता है,
जिसे शेर की कीमत पे चुका देता हूँ...

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By Shishir Sharma 'criss'

Safe C++ Design Principles

Published on August 14, 2008 in Books and Review. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

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 c-prog yahoo group where Thomas is owner. I have been reading on each and every post, here and there, on his blog. I got chance to read it when he made book free for the group users. The book didn't surprised me at all; You always expect some high quality work from him. Thanks Thomas for the book.

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By Shishir Sharma 'criss'