I get the Route Fifty morning email because that’s what is left of Government Computing News magazine. Don’t worry, you can’t find any reference to Government Computing magazine via Google. You see, Government Computing News magazine was the only media to publicly document the reason HealthCare.gov failed during its initial roll-out. Agile. All of the rest of the media simply quoted the peddlers of this fatal snake oil who all said it failed because it … The Last IBM EngineerRead more
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std::list – Example and Explanation
Our discussion of std::list, like our discussion of std::vector will start with a bit of history. It wasn’t until the IT industry was inundated with tiny x86 minds that people “tried to do it all in RAM.” Before the PC we had real computers with real operating systems. Other than Assembler, our languages were robust. Every platform supported indexed files and so did the compiler for every language. When we needed a multiply linked list … std::list – Example and ExplanationRead more
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Business/Enterprise Class Computing
We now have a generation of kids who never worked on real computers, only x86 platforms; so Business Class Computing needs to be explained. This all started with an exchange I had on the qt-interest list with someone I respect. -Text isn’t a stream. Katepart would disagree. part of the exchange, their response to my previous message I run into this a lot when people have only worked on x86 based platforms or Unix. They … Business/Enterprise Class ComputingRead more
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Interesting PostgreSQL Oddity
I was working on a tiny database to send out some emails with varying subjects. Decided to use PostgreSQL so I could have a real database as the back end. SQLite doesn’t share (on most platforms) so I couldn’t add data while the program was running. Being able to add stuff and check on progress while running is one of those design things you can’t kick when you’ve been in IT as long as me. … Interesting PostgreSQL OddityRead more
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Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 4
Before I get into more coding on this topic, I need to cover some remedial information. The first is how we center a heading. Even when we had printer spacing charts we would write the text on scratch paper then put a slash every two characters, counting spaces as characters then we would count the slashes. When working with narrow form we would subtract the number of slashes from 40, with wide form it was … Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 4Read more