Login with username and password (forgot your password?)

glad to see BC made it to Poland safe and sound 

we have lift-off!
i finally managed to send baby cody off on his travels.
next stop: warsaw, poland!

safe travels cody!

Sounds good, thanks a lot for the tip!  I'll go with Effective C++ and Effective STL for starters and we'll see where I'll end up

Okay, after a lot of back and forth via PM I think we've arrived at a good compromise
First stopover from here will be Warsaw, Poland where fenixproductions will be hosting Baby Cody.
Then it'll be over the big pond to y0himba in Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA.
From there another trip over another pond down to Auckland, New Zealand and from there possibly to Thailand.

Now I'm really getting envious :x

I'll be seeing Baby Cody off within the week once I've made travel arrangements

Hi there,
it's been quite a while since I've been truly active here with anything coding related.

I've been working with the boost library for the last weeks and really like it.  However, I've barely scratched it on the surface.
I'm now looking for a good book on the topic to get into it in way more detail.
I've already got a couple of years of C++ experience under my belt so I'm not looking for anything like the 'Dummies' series
Something that covers best practices, examples, and patterns would be perfect.

So here I am, asking for your recommendations on the topic
Any pointers you can give me are much appreciated.

@fenixproductions hmhmhm true indeed

@IainB nice one! imagine me saying this with a bit of envy

@y0himba @fenixproductions @IainB what about the following tour:
Poland -> Pennsylvania -> Auckland?

I guess Bady Cody has the worst carbon footprint ever... for a bird :>

Baby Cody is still with me, here in Stuttgart, Germany.
Pennsylvania sounds good, also y0himba was quickest to respond
Guess New Zealand would be next up after that, eh

I'm thinking maybe he wants to fly to Norway for a bit, then back south to Switzerland and over to Portugal or something?

sooo, Cody was a real big help in setting up the new shackspace location.
I've talked to him and he feels he's seen most of what's around here and he wants to see new places.

Any DC's around who want to show Cody around their neighborhood next?

You let a baby drink alcoholic beverages?

it's beer, not an alcoholic beverage

But then he wanted more!
I managed to stop him only by drinking everything myself right away.
Moral of the story: Baby Cody makes you drink!

After a day at the zoo, the proper German way to relax is with a cold one.  Of course one of the several locally brewed ones.
Cody sampled it as well and approved of the taste.

Yesterday Baby Cody went on a daytrip to Wilhelma, the Stuttgart Zoological Garden.
Weather was beautifully sunny and warm, perfect for little Cody to fly around a little.

Att times it was hard finding him again, just check the attached photo.

I just arranged a daytrip for tomorrow!
If everything turns out as planned Baby Cody will have a story or two to tell

What came out of the day trip?

sadly that didn't work out as planned

How do other members of shackspace react to Baby Cody?

at first people were like: wtf, where's the bird coming from, what does it want? whyyyy?
but cody explained everything very patently and by now he's practically part of the family

I just arranged a daytrip for tomorrow!
If everything turns out as planned Baby Cody will have a story or two to tell

Mmmmmm, power tools
And that little spark in Cody's eye when he was near the torch... I tell you, watch that bird!
Cody also personally helped putting up masking tape all over the space.
Two busy days end with a trip on the Stuttgart U-Bahn.

I'm sure there's more to come soon

Cody arrived at the new location in Stuttgart Wangen where he checked out the new hacker lounge area that we already freed up and the heaps of trash that were caused by that.
He also found some ancient bird depictions on one of the doors. Must be a good sign!
A quick trip down the center corridor and Cody fully approved of our soon to be server room
Painting was done as well, Cody checked up on that.
Time for a spin on the "no fan". no, seriously, that's not a fan!
Cody also found some tools like this router.

Here's what Baby Cody did over the weekend.
First he traveled a bit by train to arrive at the old shackspace location where he was amazed by the mural on the front wall.
Cody got busy right away and helped loading the truck with stuff we had to move to the new space!

Hey, I also could visit cody - I´m also from Stuttgart. Where did you get your new Shackspace?

The new space in Ulmer Strasse 255 (aka 0xff) in Stuttgart Wangen.  We're still very busy fixing up the place. The old location (kind of stripped down now) is in the middle of the Nordbahnhof area.

Hello fellow DCers, it's been quite a while since I've last been active on the forums.
This is going to change now since I'll be reporting on Baby Cody's adventures in Stuttgart.

A few minutes ago Cody flew through the door of shackspace, the Stuttgart hackerspace.
I managed to snap a quick photo of him when he landed right in the middle of one of the electronic lab's workbenches.
 
The guys at shackspace are currently in the middle of renovating their newly acquired space and then moving their stuff from the old to the new one.  Cody kindly offered to help with the logistics and will be supervising the move!

Stay tuned for more Baby Cody news over the following days!

You haven't managed to break a system beyond usability, but you got your gentoo stuck in un-updatable dependency hell? 

I was still able to use it, just not update

huh? pondering? i think the only reason you do not ponder is the fact that windows doesn't even give you a frickin' choice in the default setting.
"there's updates to be installed, you have to reboot". pardon me, what kind of updates? ohh, i see, keep protecting the stupid user from too much info :/

i've been running linux for way over 10 years now as my main operating system and i openly admit that it's not meant for everybody.
but i'm also pretty much blindly accepting any updates i get (i do glance over the list just to see what's affected).
in 99% of cases i didn't have the slightest problems, and mind you, i think it's safe to argue that on your average linux distro there's a lot more updates than what microsoft puts out.
the 1% is the odd kernel update that might cause a little hickup if you're running fancy hardware.
anyway, i haven't managed to break a linux system beyond usability or anything i wasn't able to fix myself right away in ages.
hell, i was even running a un-updatable gentoo system stuck in dependency hell for a year (neglecting updates on gentoo for more than half a year is no good idea) without problems.
since then i've switched to ubuntu and am happier than ever.

then again, it's not for everyone and who am i to evangelize anyone on their personal preferences.
just ticks me off if someone overgeneralizes and trolls about it :/
SCNR

you, sir, are awesome.
this is simply ingenious.

i'm drinking tea out of the mug right now and can verify housetier's statement regarding the mug-specs and general awesomeness.