Well I was doing some homework today in XCode and ran across a strange error…

Assume the first line of the file is an integer, lets say 127

ifstream inFile;
int number;
inFile >> number;

You would think, on both windows and mac this would store 127 in number.
Only on windows. On my mac it would read in 0 as the value.

On mac (specifically in xcode) to get that number…

ifstream inFile;
int num;
string temp_num;
inFile >> temp_num;
num = atoi(temp_num.c_str());

Interesting little bug, or perhaps design choice?

Was reading through my mailing lists and found this one in the Drizzle mailing list when talking about code styling for c++, pretty interesting read “Join Strike Air Fighter Vehicle C++ Coding Standards”

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

Another random musing when I was working on a rails project:
Even if your using the default environment for a cron job, you need to put RAILS_ENV=env /path/to/ruby etc…. in the command line for it to work (at least on CentOS)