This one was cracking my nuts for a moment:
when trying to install the freshest version of librtorrent on a vanilla unbutu box  I suddenly got this crazy error:
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler… no
followed by:
 checking for proper overloaded template function disambiguation… no
configure: error: your compiler does not properly handle overloaded template function [...]

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I’m really getting tired of all those spammers who auto-signup for a blog and then fill it with one crappy post ending with a a few junk links.  Really have to find out a good way to stop it.

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For years I’ve been using the fantastic editor SubEthaEdit for all my development work in OS X. I use it for pretty much everything: editing html, text files,  code perl and php stuff, but I’ve always missed good perl integration. It has been anoying to switch to a terminal window just to debug perl code [...]

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