In C++ the static keyword has quite a few wrinkles that may not be immediately apparently. One of them is related to constructor order, and I briefly describe it here.

If you have the luxury of migrating your Linux installation to a new hard disk before the old one packs up entirely, it’s quite easily done with standard tools.

I recently had to do a few not-quite-trivial things with the Jinja2 templating engine, and the more I use it the more I like it.