Read Me First

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A book about writing style for technical documentation.

Unit-tests Primer

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Unit testing is now a part of our development culture but there's much more than meet the eye in the subject. This article will expose some details of ESSS unit-test culture.

Configure errors

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Errors found while running "configure" script to build dist for unix systems.

A guide on how to add a third-party library in the dist.

_except_handler4_common

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"The procedure entry point _except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll"

The error above occurs when running the latests version of Builds when trying to download stuff.

Highlights of chapters 3 of Peopleware for the Book Meeting of 4.jun.2008.

The order of the libraries in a link command line makes difference
when compiling using GCC. Differently from Windows, the list of linking
libraries must be in the descend order of dependency, that is, the most
dependent first and the less dependent last.

Our construction mechanism keep the order of the list defined in the SConstruct, so, keep the libraries in the correct order there.

Highlights of chapters 1 and 2 of Peopleware for the Book Meeting of 28.may.2008.

Updating time with localroot

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Ben (the server machine) wasn't using the correct time and every time we try to update it generates the following error:

System error 5 has occurred.
Access is denied.

The implementation of vectorial grid-functions in Sci.App changes several places in the process hierarchy. This article explains each change, including the decisions made during the process.