My little work-tracking tool has received some love recently and is now available in a more bug-free version. But not only that, I have made a foray into a foreign world and now support compilation on Linux and, to put the icing on the cake, even provide a deb package for Debian based distributions.
Tag: C++
Performance Iterating Directories Revisited
I have written about the performance of iterating directories before, in the context of Java and its switch from version 6 to 7 that brought with it the new Java NIO API. For whatever reason I felt the urge to do something similar again, but this time I wanted to compare two different approaches to recursively scanning a directory’s contents:
- Use recursive function calls (a function that calls itself over and over again for each directory)
- Use an iterative approach (a function keeps a list of directories and iterates this list)
To make things more interesting, I implemented this in C++ using the Windows API and the Qt framework, in C# in combination with its buddy the .NET framework and, for good measure, I also threw in the old Java code from over a year ago.
Update (26.12.2014): I added additional data at the bottom of the article.
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WorkTracker v1.2.2 Released
It has been around three months since the last release, June 22nd to be exact. Since then I have made some small changes along the way, but didn’t publish them because they haven’t been in the shape that I wanted them to be for a release, but still good and helpful enough for me to use them on a daily basis. The biggest new feature is an editor. Second comes the translation and around them gather a few improvements regarding usability.
Visit the GitHub page to download the latest version.Read More »
C# LINQ Performance vs. Iteration
It’s been a while since I have written something related to programming. Time to remedy that.
Just recently my interest for the C# language rose again and to get back up to speed with the fundamentals I swallowed all videos of an absolute beginners guide on Microsoft Virtual Academy. Something that has been touched briefly was LINQ and my initial thought was: how’s the performance of that compared to how I would usually write it in C++ – where my expertise is?
Mind you, I’m not comparing C# vs C++, but merely LINQ vs. old-school iteration. Let’s go and find out.
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WorkTracker v1.1.0 Released
I have just released the first update to my work/time tracking tool WorkTracker, version 1.1.0. Included are a few visual enhancements, bugfixes, a new runtime and one feature I didn’t want to implement at first: resume a running task after application shutdown.Read More »
WorkTracker, a Little Open Source Tool
Up until my last post I was working on a little tool that helps me track the time of all (or just one) the different tasks at work. Since the work intensity went down it opened up time (yay!) for some personal stuff. We’re required to record our everyday labor and sometimes it became quite complicated to calculate how much time was spent on a single task, especially when the day didn’t start at 08:00 o’clock but some randome time earlier and ended at some random time.
Introducing: WorkTrackerRead More »
Controlling a Mac’s fans (AppleSMC)
Since the iMac found its way onto my desk I’ve been bothered with the heat generated when playing Diablo 3 (or possibly any other game) – just as with the MacBook Pro. The only difference: The MacBook’s fans were howling to stop the torment, the iMac just swallows the pain it seems. Don’t get me wrong, the system is not overheating and temperature is well within its limits. In fact, the CPU doesn’t even really heat up. It’s more the graphics chip and the power supply. But for me as a former PC user who built all the PCs himself and always had a good (and mostly quiet) cooling this is just a bit unusual.Read More »
The Codeslinger 