Tag Archives: differences

BD-incollo 0.9 is out!

It took me about one year to find some time to enhance my project BD-incollo. I worked hard for 5 days and to add new features and fight the (huge) amount of spam that was wasting my database space. Now I’m very proud to announce bd-incollo 0.9, a free, light, speedy, anonymous Pastebin clone written

Intel Graphic cards, Linux, Xorg and UXA performance boost

For people having Intel graphic chipset under Gnu/Linux, performance using 3D applications or Compiz-* window manager effects has always been a problem. Intel drivers for Xorg never gave problems but have also never been brilliant. I always looked around searching for xorg.conf tuning configuration entries. Today I was simply browsing Ubuntu Wiki and discovered the

Heap vs. Stack in C++

After the study of pointers versus references, the second natural question that comes in head of a ex Java developer turning to C++ is: “What are the difference between static and dynamic memory allocation in C++?” which can be translated as: “When should I use the stack and when do I have to use the

Reference vs. Pointer

In Software Engineering Project course we need to learn some C++ to develop the project. A question that some programmers have when passing from Java to C++ (like me) is “Which are the differences between pointers and references?“. You can find a lot of answers around developers forum, but I summarized them in the following

BD-theme 1.0 beta 1 released

I’ve finally found the time to make the necessary fixes and improvements to the theme of my blog. I decided to not name it a final release just because I could not test it with Internet Explorer 6. I believe that the differences with this beta release and the final one will just be some

BD-incollo

BD-incollo is a collaborative debugging tool like pastebin but written using Django. Why did I write another pastebin clone? Pastebin is (sometimes) slow, and I’m not (yet) interested to categorize pastes or to associate them to a user. Pastebin is free and the code is available, but is a single php file, and not a