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"Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it."
--Confucius

We wish you all happy hollidays!

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There is a lot of code in this post, it will probably not compile "as is" because of missing headers or compiler's incompatibilities. Nevertheless, we made available through our open source initiative the full working library on github. It has been tested on Clang 3.1, gcc 4.6.1 and MSVC 11 on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.

Tags: boost, c++, functional, quasardb, Uncategorized

At Bureau 14 we highly value code quality: it's the corner stone of our software development strategy and certainly one of our core values as a company. We believe that investing in code quality pays off in the long term, especially when our software is entrusted by our customer with mission-critical data.

Tags: bug, butterfly, driver, heisenbug, kernel, Uncategorized

By judging the endless stream of blog entries, books, conferences, tweets, status updates, advices, statements and aphorism on the topic, you can certainly figure out that productivity is the hottest topic behind celebrities naked pictures, cats in embarrassing situations and tomorrow’s weather.

Tags: method, productivity, sleep, Uncategorized

Although we edit NoSQL software, I always disliked calling our product a NoSQL database. I know we say in the third paragraph of our web page that wrpme is a NoSQL database, but see, right after it says that we prefer to call it a postmodern database as proposed by Dr. Richard Hipp.

Tags: acid, altsql, database, nosql, rdbms, transaction, Uncategorized, wrpme

Parrots are wonderful creatures of Earth. How many animals can you actually talk to?

Tags: parrot, pet, pirate, Uncategorized

I recently came across a great blog post asserting - based on numerous studies - that size is the best predictor of code quality.

Tags: agile, process, programming, quality, Uncategorized, unit testing

Our website isn't critical, in the sense that, if the website goes down, our operations remain unaffected. However, lately, the website was becoming extremely slow and it was turning into bad publicity.

Tags: freebsd, memcached, mysql, nginx, Uncategorized, wordpress

The BoostCon is a Boost centric conference, but it's actually much more than that. It's probably the best C++ conference in the world.

Tags: boost, boostcon, c++, Uncategorized

In battle, use direct forces to match the enemy and use indirect forces to win the enemy.-Sun Tzu

Tags: Security, copy protection, reverse engineering, Uncategorized