Blue Desk

Rodrigo’s blog.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Linus Torvalds is my hero

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I’m a big fan of Linus Torvalds , not only for what he did with Linux, but also for his figure, particularly his lack of tenderness. His tho...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

Nu Sans programming font

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I’ve just discovered out the Nu Sans monospace font on a Reddit discussion regarding the Mensch font – which is also a good font. However,...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

FLAC and LAME frontend

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I use the FLAC and LAME command line tools, and I’ve tried many FLAC and LAME frontends. And I disliked all them. One day I decided to wri...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

My first program on GitHub

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That’s a simple C Win32 program to shrink down padding bytes from ID3v2 tags on MP3 files. Maybe the most important thing, I think it sho...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

I hate the new Gmail look

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I’ve managed to keep the classic Gmail look until today, when all of a sudden Gmail morphed irreversibly into the horrendous new interface,...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Finding memory leaks in Win32

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I’ve just discovered an interesting function to aid the Win32 programmer in finding eventual memory leaks in debugging mode, and with a very...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Portable Git on Windows

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I use Git on Linux a lot, but these days I was willing to use it on Windows too. I remember some time ago I found some ugly installers, so ...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Load Explorer file extension icon in Win32

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When programming with C and Win32, sometimes you need to load an icon, as displayed on Windows Explorer, relative to a file extension. For e...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

My Firefox addons

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Just to mention, these are the addons I’m using today on my Firefox 10.0.2: Adblock Plus 2.0.3 — Blocks all advertising content according ...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Hide members on inheritance in C++

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I was working on my personal Win32 classes, when I came across something I was willing to do. Suppose I have the following class: class Ba...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Optimization settings for Visual C++ 2008

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These are the optimization settings I use on Visual C++ 2008. These settings are set to the release builds, on the project settings window, ...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Dennis Ritchie is dead

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Known and remembered only by true programmers, the creator of the C programming language, Dennis Ritchie, has passed away, at the age of 70....
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