So tonight I started hacking… haven’t done much of that in a while, too busy wrapping my head around the trappings of managing an increasing team of developers at YELLOWPAGES.COM. So I got the latest rails, created a respository on my dreamhost account for SVN, and then realized… wait… why SVN? Why not git?

I have an account on github, so in an effort not to fall too far behind I went to install git:

port install git-core

-bash: port: command not found

Ah yes… this is not my personal Mac, it is my YPC Mac, MacPorts has not yet been installed. So I went out and got 1.60 of MacPorts… installed nice and easy, and started the git install. Well I forgot the amount of time required to install git on a pretty clean Mac. It’s still fetching bits and pieces, building ncurses as I type.

So tomorrow night I’ll actually through a basic site up on yafinr.randquist.us, and go from there.

My initial thoughts are to reverse engineer the functionality of yaf.net. I like the product, just don’t like moding it.

On another note I fired off quotations (some late) to RubyNation, “Voices that Matter: Professional Ruby Conference”, and the WindyCity Rails Conf.

Sometimes my pointers hit safe memory, other times they did not. Four hours in debugging to remind me exactly why most other languages do not support pointers. They require you to be careful and thoughtful in your coding, something that seems to be less emphasized in most development projects. It was a good lesson, still throughly enjoying c++ and all its aspects.

Good stuff, see links below for details:

http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/Map.html

http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/queue.html

The simplest way is to use the function int std::atoi(const char*) declared in cstdlib. For example, std::atoi("42") returns 42. Alternatively, you can use std::strtol() or std::strtoul(). These functions provide more functionality such as the ability to convert hexadecimal or octal number strings, and are also declared in cstdlib.

How do I convert an int to a string?

Converting from int to string is a little more complicated than converting a string to int. There are no standard C++ functions for this, but there is a way to do it using standard stringstreams. The class stringstream is declared in header sstream and is used like this:

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#include

clock_t start,finish;

double time;

start = clock();

// The Code you want to clock goes here.

finish = clock();

time = (double(finish)-double(start))/CLOCKS_PER_SEC;

On to createing the class that will represent the Database(s) in the system, allowing for internal and external logging of telemetry data.