How to use git-bisect to find a workaround for a compiler bug in older GCC versions that it already fixed in current versions.

Every once in a while the Continuous Integration reminds me that the code I write isn't "that" portable. I develop on Linux, push to the SCM and the CI goes out and builds on several Unixes and Windows.

Fixing windows build issues through the CI takes quite a while ...

I use MacOS X for most of my development work, but part of my job is writing apps that run on all major Unixes and Win32. Most of the time bugs and memleaks are "portable", meaning that they appear on all platforms in the same way and fixing them on ...

While developing mysql-proxy I sometimes have to step-by-step refactoring that usually result in unstable code for a while until the unit-tests are happy again.

When a unit-test fails I usually use gdb as a wrapper and let it create a stack-trace for me:

$ gdb --command=backtrace.gdb --args /path/to ...

I have a somewhat strange relation to parser since a while. Like everyone I started with writing little parsers by hand and bounced several times against yacc and flex failing to get around their very own syntax.

Then I discovered lemon and used it in lighttpd for the configuration and ...

After seeing strange crashes in xmlFreeTextWriter() on only one platform oldag and me dove into wonders of shared linking.

<oldag> just sit right back, and you'll hear a tale
<oldag> a tale of a faitful trip
<oldag> if not for the courage of the fearless crew (oldag and jan ...

In the first article on IP to location I described the overall concept. In this edition we'll look at the implementation and how to scale the tracing to a reasonable speed.

With the examples from the last article you can also implement everything to build your own database. Before ...

Several years ago (looking at archive.org it was at the end of 2001) I wrote a database that translated IPs to locations. Very similar to the city-db from maxmind.com. Perhaps someone still remembers the article in the iX about it ?

Anyway, now it is time to release the ...

In the last round I wanted to replace everything with a lua implementation. Today, I want to take a step back and only replaces the autotools :)

On one side this follows the idea of cmake a bit more and on the other side it takes in account that make is ...

This is not a HOWTO, but more a RFC. I'm in the need for a portable, fast build-system. For lighttpd, for MySQL Proxy, ...

I need what autotools + gmake do, just in a portable (yes, including windows) and fast way. Up to now I tried SCons and cmake as alternatives ...