Interface Versioning in C++ Video

Posted on October 27, 2010 by mloskot

Friends from Skills Matter has put video with lecture about Interface Versioning in C++ given by Steve Love last Thursday. The lecture was organised by London chapater of ACCU.

Generally, Steve addressed problems of the DLL Hell and ABI compatibility proposing a not-so-simple, but applicable and usable solution for number of most common problems. Along the video, slides are also available, so it should be easy to grasp the idea.

I’ve received copy of Steve’s code and I’m preparing a few more tests which I hope to describe in details and post here soon.

It is snowing

Posted on December 16, 2009 by mloskot

in London!

I’ve just looked through window in my office near Covent Garden and I can see it’s snowing at 10:44:28 (local time).

It is constantly landing snow!

The best of snow!

in London!

Are we going to get snowed out?

SIBL Final Tarzan’s Boulder

Posted on December 14, 2009 by mloskot

Greg on the Tarzan’s Boulder, final problem of the Southern Indoor Bouldering League competition that took place on Saturday December 12, 2009 in the Castle Climbing, in London:

Available also from YouTube.

Celebrating year one in London

Posted on December 5, 2009 by mloskot

I arrived to London in the small hours on Friday December 5, 2008. My better half Pantera joined me on December 22, 2008.

On Monday, December 8, 2009 I’ll be celebrating year one of great time, hacking and company at Cadcorp.

Mac Pro collocation wanted

Posted on August 21, 2009 by mloskot

Don't ask what OSGeo can do for you, ask what you can do for OSGeo Today, I sent a post to OSGeo Discuss mailing list asking for help with finding new home for my Mac Pro workstation. I’m trying to use all possible channels to spread my call, so here we go:

Folks,

I have a pretty powerful workstation that I’d like to connect to OSGeo infrastructure, somehow. It is: Mac Pro:

2 x Intel Xeon 2.66GHz (5150, “Woodcrest”, dual core)

16 GB RAM

1.5 TB HDD

If I’ll manage to find a new home for my machine, I want to extend the RAM to 16 GB and get one or more TB of HDD.

I’m looking for possibility of collocation my machine somewhere in UK (not necessarily in London), so it can be permanently connected to OSGeo infrastructure. Unfortunately, I am not able to connect this machine from home and keep connected 24/7.

I would be delighted to make it available for OSGeo projects and their development purposes like Buildbot, scheduled builds, software testing, etc. The only personal use of this machine I would like to be able to do is…development and software testing of OSGeo software I work with plus I’d like to keep some personal backups there (disks are getting cheap, so it shouldn’t be a problem to extent to tens of TB in near future). OS X Leopard and license for Parallels VM software is included.

I tried to find collocation service in Poland or UK but prices like ~100 GBP/month are too high to pay for the purposes I’d like to dedicate my machine to.

So, if anyone knows a data centre in UK that would be interested in “rescuing” the wasted CPU cycles of my machine resting in the box please let me know. I think providing collocation could be a nice way to sponsor OSGeo by contributing this reasonably good hardware option :-)

Currently, the machine rests in box in my flat in Poland (I live in London, UK). If I find a place for it, I’ll ship it from PL to UK quickly.