For whatever reasons the following script in vcvars32.bat was attempting to detect the key in order to be able to run the compiler, but the key was never installed.

Another browser hack that I found useful for the VM instances I’m running these days.

For the Hallowe’en Edition(tm), we’re going to read about more scary bugs!

Really useful mnemonic on how to decide what is the right data structure to use:

Mainly for own historical reference. (NOTE TO SELF: Do not ever rely on building from svn sources for LLVM lest dealing with borked Makefiles)

Keyword of the day: ‘Editors’. I was initially going to dedicate this solely to ‘vim’, but given the fact that it is sometimes helpful to have some ‘magic’ (but slow) capabilities when navigating Java sources, I’m including Eclipse links just for a refresher:

Ended up building GCC-4.9 to build python-2.7 to then use both to build LLVM-3.

Today’s topic is about ‘Advice’. Plenty of them out there on the Internets, and that’s one thing that you can get for free, solicited or otherwise.