Knowing that Git is not the only one: you have Bazaar and Mercurial too for instance, as well as SVK (to some extent I agree). My favorite remains Git though.

I couldn't have explained it better. I like to consider the asterisk as a modifier to the type. It does actually belong neither to the type, nor to the variable. Its name is ptr and not *ptr. Another example is:

int i = 123;
int &j = i;

It becomes even more unclear if you consider &j as the variable name. Eventually, an alternate way to consider it is with parenthesis:

CType (*ptr), nonPtr;

'°' \o/

In case you wonder what that means...[^]

I am a musician, and I always listen to music when I program. I believe it not only isolates from outer disturbances like phone calls and so on, but the beat of music helps having a good rythm - it enhances brain activity. Note that I listen to symphonic metal, goth metal and tech trance these days (depending on my mood). Heavy metal rulez!

The GoF is just a line of conduct. The danger is that programmers tend not to think their design anymore, to think their application is perfect because they use Design Patterns only. From my computer science education, I learnt object-oriented programming concepts, but I never had an example on how to use it cleverly. Design Patterns are these missing examples to me - and only examples.

Oops, replied to the wrong message. Let's put it this way: I think Microsoft environments are well suited for Microsoft platforms (.NET) and APIs (MFC). I cannot imaging programming VB in notepad, though it is feasible. Merely considering the programming languages themselves (C/C++, Python, Java and so on, even HTML, PHP or others), (g)vim is simply perfect: lightweight, powerful, stable and pretty. And the cherry on top of the pie: you don't need a mouse at all!!

I use vim for many of my developments... Eclipse IDE is good at work.

It was only a simple example. It could be a more complex loop, like for a user menu or something else...

My opinion in using gotos is like C programming: it is up to the programmer to code properly. Some are so skilled to write ugly C code. If used properly, goto can could may might have a place in our hearts. E.g. the MS-DOS batch script below (tested on WinXP):

@echo off
set i=0

:loop
set /a i=%i%+1
echo Loop %i%
if not %i% == 10 goto :loop

Did you try Tools > Macro > Security... and put Security Level to Medium?

It tends to actually do the job it is supposed to and quite smoothly... (Whoops, I said it :omg:!!)

Try the GNU utilities for Win32[^] - it provides you the find and grep Unix commands.

DrProject[^] (based on Trac). I have now been using it for quite a while. I simply love it.

If your idea is to work on a mirrored repository (and to make off-line commits), try svk[^].

Well, well... It looks like I didn't search far enough. There is actually a Git plugin for Eclipse IDE: JGit/EGit[^] and I am about to try it. Anyone who already tried this one?

I am using it from time to time in parallel to Subversion. I especially like it for its distributed approach, i.e. you don't need to have a connectivity to the server holding the repository to make a commit. However the Eclipse IDE[^] does not provide a plugin like for Subversion[^] and you may encounter some problems using Git on MSys[^] (issue with Perl modules missing/wrong version and so on). Moreover Git is more complicated to understand for people - not to name colleagues - who are not familiar with revision control.

If you like Trac[^], you may like DrProject[^] even more. Fabien

I use DrProject (https://stanley.cdf.toronto.edu/drproject/csc49x/DrProject). It is based on Trac, but it with a better design and improved features. Administration is very easy and the latest version is very easy to install.