TheCodedWorld

A new Codility challenge (codename Tau) has been launched. I had a quick look at it just now but am way too tired to give it a go. Feel free to beat me to it! It involves a torus represented as a vector of vectors. Go for the gold at http://www.codility.com (click on the "Certify yourself" button).

At work I often tell my fellow engineers that Test Driven Development, TDD, is the  way to go! Sadly I have to confess that I havn't had a decent test framework installed at my development PC at home...until now! I just got googletest, the Google C++ Testing Framework up and running under Eclipse CDT. So how do you do that? Check comment 9 here:  http://code.google.com/p/googletest/issues/detail?id=40 And read the README that comes with googletest on how to build the lib. Ask if you need some guidelines.

Just recently bought and installed my first solid state drive (SSD). After having evaluated it for a couple of days I can say it is the breath of fresh air that my PC needed. The only bumps on the road so far has been Windows failing to install >100 updates in one shot, had to split them into smaller portions. Well can't really blame the SSD for that. Second bump was trying to enable AHCI after  Windows 7 was already installed. This made Windows unhappy and didn't wish to boot at all. One quick search on Google solved that one. More on AHCI can be found on Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface Microsoft fix for enabling AHCI in Windows 7 after it has been installed:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976