GCode Simulator

Last year I’ve built a Mendel90 3D printer. Soon I’ve printed an adapter for the Proxxon Micromot 50, so that I could use the printer also for drilling and milling. Drilling was easy, and this weak I gave milling a try and experimented with milling PCBs created with …

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Types of Memory Leaks

There exists more than one type of memory leaks with different effects and different way to detect them:

  • The typical memory leak: a piece of memory the gets allocated but is not freed anymore. This is the classic type of memory leak, for what C and C++ gets blamed for …
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YCM FixIt Feature

YouCompleteMe (YCM) is really an awsome plugin. But today this blog post is not about completion support, it’s about YCM’s FixIt feature. If you are developer and have seen already compiler errors like this:

expected ';' at end of declaration

then I’m sure you also thought already: “If …

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My first Qt contribution

I’m proud to announce that my first contribution to Qt made it into Qt5.1. It is also mentioned on the “New Features in Qt 5.1” Wiki entry:

moc: New keyword in Q_PROPERTY: MEMBER let you bind a property to a class member without requiring to have a …

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