Slashdot redesign winner announced

The winning entry can be seen here. This is far better than the original slashdot but far from revolutionary. There were other far more interesting layouts, but I guess this was the one that kept CmdrTaco happy and was backward compatible as well. Sigh.

Update: The Slashdot story is here.

Simple Library to create BMP Files

EasyBMP is a small library that can be embedded inside any application to create BMP files. The project homepage is here.

Tutorial on pointers

Gamedev has an excellent article introducing pointers in C. Building on that article, I think an introduction to volatile and const pointers. While const is more C++ than C, it is still useful. MSDN introduces both here.

Expanding Scope

I'm changing the scope of my blog here. Instead of the narrow focus on Scheme, I'm now going to blog on anything related to software or hardware or techie. Now this should get the blog moving.

Condition Handling in lisp

The subject says it all. link.