Blue Desk

Rodrigo’s blog.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

A balanced .008 gauge string set for guitar

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Last month I restrung my 2004 Music Man JP6 with a .008 gauge string set, D’Addario EXL130. I started to feel very uncomfortable with the G...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Named arguments in C

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When experimenting with some C99 features of C , I found a very cool trick to have named parameters, using a feature called designated init...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Fixing .htaccess in Apache with Ubuntu 12

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I have an ordinary Apache installation on an Ubuntu 12 OS, where the root webserver directory is ordinarily pointing to /var/www . I have m...
Friday, March 28, 2014

A simple alternative to C++ exceptions

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I’ve been doing a lot of C++11 research and coding ultimately, and I’m still upset with the C++ exceptions . When reading the concepts, it s...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Queen 2011 remasters: horrible

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As an audophile, I care a lot about my music collection. Some albums do have multiple pressings, with new remastered versions of the same ol...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

JavaScript anonymous closures

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Today I was going to write about my fruitful experiments in JavaScript using anonymous closures, scope and namespacing in general. But I stu...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Logitech, please bring back the wired Trackman Wheel

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About 2 years ago I was suffering from some wrist pain, due to countless hours of computer work with an ordinary mouse. I started searching...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Creating project templates for Visual Studio 2013

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There are a couple of project settings that I set for every native C++ Win32 project I want to start, basically, more aggressive optimizatio...
Monday, December 16, 2013

A simple C++ smart pointer class

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Until I started using move semantics of C++11, I used this smart pointer class, which is template-based, heavily relies on operator overloa...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

C++11 move semantics are amazing

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Right now I’m testing Visual C++ 2013, which implements some interesting innovations from C++11 specification. I started taking a look at so...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Sound Forge 11: no FX chain apply?

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I’m a long time Sound Forge user, since the golden pre-Sony Sonic Foundry days, when the horrendous .NET Framework , a toy for script kidd...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

Plotting icons in OpenStreetMap with GPS coordinates

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I’ve been working on a project with GPS data, where a map plotting would be handy. At first I thought about using Google Maps, but it’s alwa...
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