Arrested Development. Season 4.

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Great NEWS! Netflix will be streaming the 4th season of the greatest TV show of All Time.

error MSB4044: The "CppClean" task was not given a value for the required parameter "FoldersToClean"

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I know it can't be too late, but just in case you are converting an old VS 2008 project to VS2010 and facing this error when trying to clean your newly converted project:

error MSB4044: The "CppClean" task was not given a value for the required parameter "FoldersToClean"

...than check settings of your project. If the "Output Directory" and/or "Intermediate Directory" contain the "$(ConfigurationName)" macro, than change it to "$(Configuration)".

Simply to say, if one of those those two settings contain a macro, which return an empty or a bad result, the error will pop up.

Hope it helps!

C++: modules

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check it out, LLVM discussing modules in C++: presentation slides

Software Development for Infrastructure

yet another interesting article by Bjarne Stroustrup:

Infrastructure software needs more stringent correctness, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability requirements than non- essential applications. This implies greater emphasis on up-front design, static structure enforced by a type system, compact data structures, simplified code structure, and improved tool support. Education for infrastructure and application developers should differ to reflect that emphasis. A Web extra video features Bjarne Stroustrup of Texas A&M University discussing how C++ can help improve the reliability, maintainability, and performance of infrastructure software. He also describes features that are part of the latest versions of the C++ language.

The full article (pdf).