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Hey CLion, quick: Catch!

I am glad I finally made up my mind and bought a personal license for CLion. And just one day after CLion 1.1 came out. A few episodes of CppCast had left me

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A Better way to ask cmake for a C++ standard

A while back I wrote a post about how to set the c++ standard with cmake. It revolved around setting the CXX_STANDARD and optionally CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED properties. I have since found this technique does not work as nicely

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Hyperpolyglot

Back in 2012 I tweeted this: Is there a c++/java dictionary? Stuff like this would make sense for teaching new languages to programmers. Languages do overlap a lot.— ruipires (@ruipires) August 2, 2012

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Biicode

I have been meaning to try biicode for a while now. I have heard about it in blog posts, in podcasts, and I have been looking for a tool like that. I have

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My VIM configuration - part I

I have been using Vim and gVim for a few years now. Vim has a steep learning curve (but there are great tutorials out there), but its worth it, as it is a very

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Setting the c++ standard using cmake

Note: I have written an update to this post here. I'm currently trying to convert an existing code base from Makefiles to CMake. I'm doing this in order to showcase the advantages we

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The importance of a native UI

It is no secret that I am a fan of the Qt project. I like how it promisses, and can deliver the capability to develop a cross platform UI. That being said, if

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Vagrant

After hearing about it a software engineering radio episode, and in several other podcasts/articles (FLOSS weekly maybe?), I decided to try using vagrant. Vagrant describes itself as a way to "Create and configure

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GDB TUI mode

It's funny how sometimes you use a tool for years, but still find out new functionality once in a while. I am no gdb expert. In fact, I prefer to produce my code

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A decent windows console

I have just stumbled upon ConEmu, and have to admit I'm impressed. As a developer, I have to use command lines a bunch, so they should not feel like a burden to use.

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