The new James Bond girl!

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the new James Bond girl - Olga Kurylenko!

It was released that former model Olga Kurylenko will play as the James Bond girl with Daniel Craig in Bond 22. By the way, the 28-year-old Ukrainian, recently played in Hitman (Nika Boronina), so she obviously has some action :) experience already.


Source (BBC News).

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Recently MS has released Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta.
Well, this pack actually contains two main points worth to be mentioned, namely, MFC libraries extensions and TR1 implementation from MS.

MFC got the following additions:

• Office Ribbon style interface


• Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP look and feel


• Modern Visual Studio-style docking toolbars and panes


• Fully customizable toolbars and menus


• A rich set of advanced GUI controls


• Advanced MDI tabs and groups


• And much more!

What can I say... Pretty impressive! Sorry guys but I really thought that MFC were already dead for several years or so.
Me, and guys I know who develop software for Windows don't use MFC in anyway, why should we, when there is ATL/WTL or Qt?

TR1
Effective C++, Third Edition (Scott Meyers):

TR1 ("Technical Report 1") is a specification for new functionality being added to C++'s standard library. This functionality takes the form of new class and function templates for things like hash tables, reference-counting smart pointers, regular expressions, and more. TR1 itself is just a document. As I write this in early 2005, the document has not been finalized, and its URL is subject to change.

I can't describe it better as Scott Meyers did!

The current TR1 draft is dated 24 June 2005.
Now back to the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta and its TR1 part.
It seems to me that this implementation of TR1 is actually implementation from MS and not an extract of BOOST TR1 as I thought it could be. :) The following quote is the reason for my conclusion (see this document):

The following are known issues that are planned to be fixed in the final release
of TR1 for Visual Studio 2008:

* mem_fn() does not support member functions with non-default calling conventions.

* Nested bind() expressions do not compile.

* bind() expressions with explicit result types do not compile.

* bind() expressions involving function objects with templated function call
operators do not compile.

Happy New Year!

"Smoking a cigar is time you devote to yourself" (Gerhard "Geraldo" Dannemann)

I am actually a non-smoker, namely, I don't smoke at all :)
But once a year I like to smoke one or two gut cigars. And I usually do this on the last day of the year.
This time I was tasting Dannemann Cigars - Tubes Brazil.
This cigar has a rich aromatic flavor, actually I was expecting a strong one, but it appears to be totally opposite with a very delicate and soft taste. Very tasty! I took two of this type. :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody!

Change Eclipse UI font size and type

Unfortunately the chang of the font size is not yet possible from within Eclipse itself (for some of UI components like Menu and Navigator for example), at least for Eclipse version 3.2.0.
The UI font size can only be changed via the X resource mechanism. If you are using a gtk or gtk2 build, then the font size should automatically adapt to the settings of your theme or your personal preferences.

Use xfontsel to select a font. For example:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1

Modify a config file: ~/.Xdefaults

Eclipse*fontList:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1

Use the following command to apply the font:

xrdb ~/.Xdefaults