(Thanks wayback machine)

Weaving Relations for Cache Performance

C-Store a Column oriented DBMS

Terms:

Online Transaction Processing OLTP

Online Analytic Processing OLAP

Batch Processing

Publish Subscribe

Bitmap Indexes

Strict Weak Ordering

DB Normalization

People:

Ted Codd And his 12 rules

Christopher Date

If you have more feel free to leave comments.

Google C++ Style Guide

To select an item in a list view create an LVITEM structure, change a few of it’s fields and pass it to LVM_SETITEMSTATE:

// Select current item in the list
LVITEM item = {0};
item.mask = LVIF_STATE;
item.state = item.stateMask = LVIS_SELECTED;
SendMessage(mhProductList, LVM_SETITEMSTATE, mCurrentSettings, (LPARAM)&item);

Oh and if you’re trying to turn on whole line section you’ll need to use the extended styles:

// Set extended styles
SendMessage(hWndListView, LVM_SETEXTENDEDLISTVIEWSTYLE, 0, LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT);

"--start-group", "--end-group", aternatively "-(" "-)"

See the man page for LD for more info

Unfortunately this argument comes with the following little warning:

Using this option has a significant performance cost. It is best to use it only when there are unavoidable circular references between two or more archives.

The particular case I was dealing with was the havok version 6 libraries on linux. I was advised that there may be way to link them but hadn’t been worked out. In order to test this theory I hacked together a little bit of ruby to show library dependencies. I feel this may be of some use to someone else so I present it here:

require 'find'

$symbs = {}
$archives = []

class Archive
    attr_reader :name, :symbs, :depends, :undef
    def initialize name
        @name = name
        @symbs = {}
        @undef = {}
        @depends = Hash.new(0)
    end

    def add_definition loc, name
        @symbs[name] = loc
        $symbs[name] = self
    end

    def add_undefined name
    @undef[name] = 0
    end

    def resolve_undefined
        @undef.each do |k,v|
            archive = $symbs[k]
           if not archive or archive == self then
                next
            end
            @undef[k] = archive
            @depends[archive] = @depends[archive] + 1
        end
    end
end

Find.find('.') do |path|
    next if not /.a$/.match(path)

    io = IO.popen("nm #{path}")
    archive = Archive.new(path)
    $archives << archive
    while (str = io.gets) do
        case str
        when /\w+\.a/
            archive = Archive.new(str)
            puts "archive: #{str}"
        when /[A-F0-9]+ [A-Za-z] \w+/
            parts = str.split
            archive.add_definition parts[0], parts[2]
        when /\s+U\s+\w+/
            archive.add_undefined str.split[1]
        end
   end
   puts "processed #{path}, #{archive.symbs.count} defined, #{archive.undef.count} undefined"
end

$archives.each do |archive|
    archive.resolve_undefined
end

$archives.sort! {|a,b| a.depends.count <=> b.depends.count }

puts "dependency list:"
$archives.each do |archive|
    puts "#{archive.name}: #{archive.depends.count}"
    archive.depends.each do |depend,count|
        puts "    #{depend.name}: #{count}"
    end
end

The final solution was to simply remove the object files from the static libraries and put them into a single combined library:

rm *.o
find . -name \*.a -exec ar x {} \;
ar rcs libHavok.a *.o
ranlib libHavok.a
rm *.o

I did end up finding a command line windows CVS client

I think what I would like to do is split my blog into micro-blog/status updates and actual blog posts. It would be ideal if I could use one interface to post to the both and have the micro-blog funnel to twitter/facebook. We’ll see if that makes sense. In the meantime I’ll just use a tag for the status updates.