I’ve finally started to look into the new features in C++11 and I thought it would be useful to jot down the highlights, for myself or anyone else who’s curious. Since there’s a lot of ground to cover, I’m going to look at each item in its own post — this one covers move semantics.

Why have webservers been so slow to accept chunked requests?

In C++ the static keyword has quite a few wrinkles that may not be immediately apparently. One of them is related to constructor order, and I briefly describe it here.

If you have the luxury of migrating your Linux installation to a new hard disk before the old one packs up entirely, it’s quite easily done with standard tools.

I recently had to do a few not-quite-trivial things with the Jinja2 templating engine, and the more I use it the more I like it.

Github’s web hooks make it surprisingly easy to write commit triggers.

Backups are a hassle, off-site ones doubly so. However, there are a few tools which make life easier — this post discusses some of them.

Python’s behaviour with regards to destructors can be a little surprising in some cases.

Python’s simple scoping rules occasionally hide some surprising behaviour.

I’ve always avoided C++ streams as they never seemed as convenient as printf() and friends for formatted output, but I’ve decided I should finally take the plunge.