It’s the current fashion to show error messages inline, rather than displaying a pop-up error message. Password: •••••               The password is incorrect. Please recheck it and try again. This looks prettier, I guess, but it does cause problems with…

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Upcoming Workshop: C++ Best Practices, NDC TechTown, Sept 9-10, 2024
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Upcoming Workshop: Applied constexpr: The Power of Compile-Time Resources, C++…

Expressive code in C++

With the WSL subsystem on Windows, it is actually possible to run directly a Wayland compositor and clients. This blog explains how.

There's this new TV-show on Swedish Television (SVT) called Hackad ("hacked" in English), which is about a team of white hat hackers showing the audience exactly how vulnerable lots of things, people and companies are and how they can be hacked using various…

The current Office team were very much amused by my story of the The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver™, although the details couldn’t be verified by anyone still on the team, and the timeline and other details weren’t quite accurate.¹…

Kitware has been awarded a four-year grant from the NIH to help address the need for a rare and adverse events surgical simulator.

The other day I received a pre-release review copy of Fedor Pikus’s new book,
The Art of Writing Efficient Programs
(Packt Publishing, 2021).
Here’s my review of it. TLDR: it’s very good! I don’t say that about just
any book; and for a review copy from Packt…

I have started blogging again! But I am too annoyed at Blogger, so the new posts will be published in my new blog: https://kristerw.github.i...

Members of Kitware’s Scientific Computing Team and our collaborators at the the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) have been working on a Phase I SBIR project funded by the Depart…

GammaRay 2.11.3 has been released! Version 2.11.3 will be the last in the 2.11 series. Find out what's new, download it, and more.

Qt installer framework online installation localisation UI translation

Всем привет! Для тех, кто со мной не знаком, я — технический переводчик в IT-компании CG Tribe в Ижевске. Я занимаюсь переводом руководства Vulkan Tutorial на русский язык и выкладываю переводы на...

A customer used WRL to implement their COM objects, with the help of wil. Meanwhile, they also had client code that instantiated one of those COM objects. An exception was thrown and caught, but the code crashed trying to convert it to an HRESULT: // Simplified…

Часть 1. Вступление … Часть 5. Функции Часть 6. Специфика Google Часть 7. Ещё возможности C++ … Эта статья является переводом части руководства Google по стилю в C++ на русский язык. Исходная статья...