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Ever wonder what the difference is between CMake and GNU Make? Answers online tend to focus on how CMake is a meta-build system, has a mouse clicky GUI interface available,...

This morning I had to renew my Malaysian drivers license, and I had to do it in person.

I've been working on The CMake Tutorial for the last few months. It's designed to help get people up to speed with modern CMake, quickly.

Having trouble connecting Filezilla to an FTP server that's behind a NAT router? If it connects, but then gives a "Failed to retrieve directory listing" error, then you have likely...

I had a look at the most common questions about CMake that people ask Google. Some of them had rather poor answers.

in Part 9 of this challenge, Scarfy was happily jumping and running around in his 2D world, and even had background music. That's a great achievement, but rather boring.

A few weeks ago I got curious about the increased interest in AmigaOS 4.x emulation, and decided to run a survey. The results are in.

My previous CMake tutorial taught the basics: how to compile multiple source files into one program.

I've noticed C++ beginners asking how to compile code beyond the usual minimal examples. It seems that many tutorials are so busy explaining basics such as variables, if/else flow-control, &...

What is file syncing? It's a question I didn't even think of answering, because I've worked with computers so long that it's obvious to me, and it's easy to forget...