Random bits about software development

In the last months, I spent some time building a prototype of a smart watering system. I had the idea while building a watering system for ...

These days everybody is busy training Pokemons. But, because of a challenge, I had to spend few hours training something different: Watson. ...

Limits of the basic GDB interface The main user's complain about gdb is the lack of a friendly interface. The basic interface is comma...

Why is it dangerous? The select system call can be used to check if a file descriptor (usually a socket) is ready for reading or writing. Th...

Managing ESXi The free VMware ESXi hypervisor is very good for creating a virtual lab at home. But its main limitation is the lack of a we...

Debugging memory management errors Few days ago, one of my applications started crashing both on Linux and Windows because of a memory cor...

Some background Visual Studio 2015 includes a Git plug-in that allows to version control software using Git. The plug-in allows to publis...