Porting networking code from POSIX to Windows is actually remarkably simple: Windows’ sockets implementation, winsock, implements almost exactly the same interface and there are really onlt very few caveats to take into account.

Recently, in this report, it’s been reported that a physics laboratory in China achieved a new distance record in quantum teleportation: 16 km. That’s quite a feat, considering that up until now, the max. distance had been a few hundred meters.

As a dutchman living in Quebec, Canada – one of those parts of the world where francophones (french-speaking people) are surrounded by anglophones (english-speaking people) and yet thrive speaking french almost exclusively – I sometimes run into the “corner cases” of language related coding standards – e.g. the language comments are supposed to be written [...]

Hello everyone, I just checked the podcast’s statistics and noticed we passed the 5000 downloads mark this week. At the rate the podcast is now being downloaded, we’ll have doubled that in another few weeks: each episode got downloaded, on average, almost 500 times! I honestly never thought this podcast would be that popular. Thanks [...]

Sometimes it’s real fun to see how easily you can confuse the compiler. In the error below, function is a macro that takes three parameters: filename.c(453) : error C2220: warning treated as error – no ‘object’ file generated filename.c(453) : warning C4013: ‘function’ undefined; assuming extern returning int filename.c(466) : error C2064: term does not [...]

I changed my hosting provider a few days ago, which implied changing the DNS provider as well. As a result of this – and my forgetting to set the MX entry correctly, the mail service for landheer-cieslak.com was down. Michel was kind enough to notify me of this, so it’s been fixed this morning.