C++ Reference and Styles

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C++ References Reference of the C++ Language Library, with detailed descriptions of its elements and examples on how to use its functions: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ C++ reference: http://www.cppreference.com/w/ C++ Styles I compile a list of C++ styles on the Internet. http://geosoft.no/development/cppstyle.html http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_02/C%2B%2B_Style_Guide_v007.html http://www.cs.uga.edu/~dkl/1302/Fall99/style.html

Outlook-style Email Reply Header in Thunderbird

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Thunderbird’s email reply header is short and not like the ones in Outlook and other email clients. Thunderbird provides several integrated reply headers. However, the Outlook-style reply header with sender, receiver, date, and other information are clear and useful (e.g. my boss cc’ed an email to me to let me handle a request and I
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How to Activate Windows 7 using MAK Activation

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The Windows 7 Multiple Activation Key (MAK) can be used to activate Windows 7 Enterprise installed with the Windows 7 Volume Licence DVD provided by Microsoft to enterprise/university customers. How to activating Windows 7 with MAK: Make sure your system is connecting to the Internet. During Windows 7 activation, Windows will connect to Microsoft.com for
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How to Print Notes on a PDF File with Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader

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Print PDF with notes is not that straightforward, especially when you want specific styles of the printed notes/comments. In this post, we introduce how to print notes on a PDF file with Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader. Acrobat The detailed method is posted on Adobe’s blog: Printing Sticky Notes on a PDF. Excerpt of
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HP Compaq BIOS Crisis Recovery from a Failed BIOS Flashing Using a USB Flash Disk

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I tried to flash my HP Compaq CQ35-240TX’s BIOS to F.15 but unfortunately failed. The computer turned to white screen. When I restarted (powered off then boot again), this is no response any more: the hard disk and caps lock’s LED keep blinding. I thought “Oh my God! I must send it to HP to
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Setting Up POP3/IMAP Email Box on Nokia E71

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The software in Nokia E71 already support POP3 and IMAP email box. But we may lead to install Nokia messaging and setting up account of Nokia messaging. Storing our emails in remote servers isn’t a secure way. And why not use IMAP directly if it is supported by the system software? How to set up
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Thunderbird Tips: Default Descending Email Sort Order and Inline Quote When Reply

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Thunderbird is a great email client and what make it special is deeply configurable like Firefox. For me, I like to view email in the descending sort order and inline quote relied email content when replying emails. Let’s look at how to set the default order as descending sort order and quote mode as inline
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Floating Point in Bash Shell

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Integers are natively supported in Bash shell. However, what if we use floating point in Bash shell? The short and direct answer is using ‘bc‘ command – “An arbitrary precision calculator language.” Just run bc  and enter some floating point calculation expression, such as “1.2+8.2”, bc will give the result. In a script, we certainly
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Makefile Tutorials

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Make is a utility that automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called makefiles which specify how to derive the target program. Make is widely used, especially in Unix/Linux world. More introductions to Make and it’s history can be found on Wikipedia. In this post, I list articles for Makefile
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x86-64 ISA / Assembly Programming References

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This post collect the reference resource for x86-64 (also know as Intel 64, AMD 64) ISA / assembly language programming. x86-64 is a 64-bit extension of the Intel x86 instruction set. ==x86-64 Assembly Programming== Introduction to Computer Systems Resources (15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems Resources from CMU) Lots materials for learning machine-level programming on the
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Inline Assembly with GCC on Linux

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One cool feature of gcc is that it can inline assembly into C code. With inline assembly, the programmer can precisely control the execution of the processor, such as forcing variables to use registers, getting special processor state efficiently, and writing critical efficient code in assembly by hand. I compile a list of tutorials from
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GNU C Reference Manual

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When we program in C, a C reference by hand is usually useful. The GNU C Reference Manual provides us a good reference for the C programming language implemented by the GNU C Compiler. “This manual is strictly a reference, not a tutorial. Its aim is to cover every linguistic construct in GNU C.” GNU
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How to Generate Mixed Source and Assembly List from Source Code using GCC

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When debugging and optimizing programs, developers sometimes need to generate and investigate into the assembly generated by the compiler. Generating a mixed source and assembly list will help a lot for debugging and optimization. gcc can achieve this by working with the assembler. Generate assembly list mixed with the source code Just add these gcc
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OCaml Learning Materials

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OCaml is an interesting functional language. There are lots learning materials on the Internet. I compile a list of resources for OCaml learning and reference. Recommended OCaml learning and reference material Online book of Real World OCaml by Yaron Minsky, Anil Madhavapeddy, Jason Hickey. A very good tutorial by Jason Hickey: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf. The OCaml system
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4 Ways of Converting String to Int in C++

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It is common to convert a string (std::string) to integer (int) in C++ programs. Because of the long history of C++ which has several versions with extended libraries and supports almost all C standard library functions, there are many ways to convert a string to int in C++. This post introduces how to convert a
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Java Calling Native Functions in .DLL on Windows

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How to call a function in .dll from Java on Windows is introduced in this post with an example. Platforms used: OS: Microsoft Windows XP [5.1.2600] C to .dll compiler: MS Visual Studio 2008 JDK: java -version java version “1.6.0_05” Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_05-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode, sharing)
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How to Connect to MySQL in JSP

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We use tomcat as the container used for instructions in the post. 1) Download the driver mysql-connector-java-*.*.*-bin.jar and put it into WEB-INF/lib/, and remember to restart tomcat. 2) The example code as follows. String driverName=”com.mysql.jdbc.Driver”; String userName=”username”; String userPasswd=”password”; String dbName=”dbname”; String tableName=”tablename”; String url=”jdbc:mysql://localhost/”+dbName+”?user=”+userName+”&password=”+userPasswd; Class.forName(“com.mysql.jdbc.Driver”).newInstance(); Connection conn=DriverManager.getConnection(url); Statement statement = conn.createStatement(); String sql=”SELECT *
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Controlling Display of WordPress Widget with PHP Code

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I am always wondering how to display different Widgets in WordPress depending on the page/post/category etc. I ever tried some plugins that is for specific purpose. However, they are not flexible enough for all my needs. For example, I want a widget that contains AdSense ad not display on certain posts that I selected and
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BBCode Support in WordPress

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BBCode is another markup language to format posts widely by forums, which is easier and clearer than HTML. WordPress provides a visual editor and some easy-to-use tools, but no built-in BBCode support. Let’s see how to add BBCode support in WordPress. We can add BBCode support to WordPress with the BBCode plugin by bOingball that
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