Arctic Monkeys At The Crocodile
Events: Submitted by Dave on 30-Mar-06 at 07:43pm
Caught the Arctic Monkeys last night at the Crocodile Cafe, Speaker Speaker opened.
The gig had been pushed on the radio all week, and tickets had sold out a month or so ago so the Croc was rammed.
Not my usual cup of tea, but they were both pretty good, and I'm a big fan of actual music, you know, with actual people using actual instruments.
Rants: Submitted by Dave on 23-Mar-06 at 06:49pm
I'm on site for the next few weeks. So, ok, their building, their rules, but damn these people have no concept of coffee machine etiquette.
Coffee machine etiquette goes like this: the person that empties the pot brews the next pot. It's simple, it works, and it means I never have to wait around for a cup of coffee...
Every time I went to the coffee machine yesterday it was empty. I brewed five pots of coffee yesterday and managed to get two cups of coffee. Ok, so some of that is my fault wandering off while it's brewing and then forgetting about it, but am I the only one in the entire building that knows who to use the coffee machine?
So now, after I've hit the start button on the machine, I figure I have one of two options:
Technology: Submitted by Dave on 22-Mar-06 at 12:36am
Today I have been mainly learning about Structured Exception Handling (SEH). Unlike normal Exception Handling (EH), implemented at a compiler level by generic C++ compilers, SEH is implemented in Windows at an operating system level.
The details on how to use SEH are available from Microsoft, and there's a nice artical on Gamedev.net as well, but that's not what I'm interested in...
The actually implementation details are far more interesting. There's a couple of interesting articles on this by Matt Pietrek and Jeremy Gordon.
And, hey, guess what? There's a whole heap (no pun intended) of intesting stuff being stored on the stack...
Update 23-May-2006: Fixed bad link. My bad.