See the Java code. Ever since Java 8 introduced default interface methods, I felt there had to be a way to use it for multiple inheritance. I have never needed it, but I was bored for a bit today, so decided to try the following idea: Create a non-p...
See https://github.com/bantling/tools/tree/master/depmgmt Choice of Maven I tried using Conan, and found it overall good, but a bit disappointing. I used Conan on a project that needed development for a relatively short time, then it would sit for ye...
For a little over a century (1880 - 1996), Canada had a residential school system that suppressed the native way of life. It was an ill-fated attempt to turn natives into Canadians. For some reason you and I can't understand since we weren't there at...
See https://github.com/bantling/tools/tree/master/cross-compile/hello-cli Prepare for disappointment You'd think that as you're reading this that somebody, somewhere is busy cross compiling GCC, or building the latest LLVM with all the backends. You'...
When writing the top level README.adoc for a project hosted on GitHub or GitLab, the file is converted to html automatically so the user can read the file, follow any links, etc. But what if you need self-contained html, pdf, or docx files to share o...
What is a "no data" application? There are a lot of data driven line of business applications that will never have a million rows before they get replaced by something else. I call these "no data" applications because they have so little data the dat...
