Wednesday, June 6, 2012. Refactoring C to C Part 2 - Strings, Strings, and More Strings. In the previous entry in this series. A general info dump on a converted class was taken. The final zero-byte null terminator might be missed during creation. Some common library functions will ensure null termination, while others do not. To determine the length of a string, the entire buffer needs to be walked.

This gorgeous photo of The Queen in Melbourne on the Royal Tram made me smile this morning. Long may she reign over us. Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she rides on the royal tram down St Kilda Road. Sticks and Stones and Speech. Ahaaa Now I get it! .

On Writing, Tech, and Other Loquacities. Musings and scribblings from a writer and geek in Canberra, Australia. What the blog is going on here? At Sunday, April 10, 2011. Finally, though, I can claim to have my very own domain.

Australia and the Commonwealth Games. Australia has been doing exceptionally well at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, held at the Gold Coast, Queensland. We can be very proud of our athletes, not only for their sporting prowess, but also because of their friendly demeanour and wonderful examples of the spirit of sportsmanship.

Open source developer, bicyclist, gardener, and geek. At Red Hat Summit, I was presented with the first ever Women in Open Source Award. For both my technical contributions, and my efforts to make open source communities a better place. Than their white coworkers, and they may even be penalized. I urge people to donate to Outreachy.

I was reminded the other day that if you want to do planetary astrophotography, hacking up a webcam is a cheap and easy way to computerise image capture. Better still, software exists to process videof rames into a single higher quality still image.