C++ versus Objective-C as API substrate

Windows 8 marks the start of the end of the ancient workhorse API – Win32. Win32, along with COM, underlies all other APIs – including .NET – that Windows developers have used. MFC, ATL, COM itself (if I’m not mistaken), etc… these all depend on Win32 underneath. Starting with Windows 8, all new development going [...]

Setting up Slackware on a VPS (Part 2, using installpkg and getting packages)

The most basic thing one needs to learn when setting up Slackware (on a VPS, especially) is how to get various packages and install them. This is most easily done via the wget and installpkg commands. http://slackware.com/getslack has a list of mirrors where you can get slackware packages. Packages will be found within a directory [...]

Setting up Slackware – Server OS Field Stripping (Part 1, intro)

On VPS hosting, using an administration panel (e.g. cPanel, Plesk, Interworx, DirectAdmin, etc…) together with a distro such as CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu is the popular choice. This is the conservative decision, but sometimes this just hampers flexibility to an unacceptable degree. You are often tightly constrained regarding the versions of software you can use. In my present [...]

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C++ versus Objective-C as API substrate

Setting up Slackware on a VPS (Part 2, using installpkg and getting packages)

Setting up Slackware – Server OS Field Stripping (Part 1, intro)