C, Embedded

How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel
Unit-testing (embedded) C applications with Ceedling: let's write C code that doesn't suck
Object-oriented techniques in C: my experience on the topic, plus an utility for autogeneration of boilerplate code
Visualizing the Heap on Embedded Devices, and getting highly efficient heap manager for memory-constrained devices
TNeo RTOS: well-formed and carefully tested real-time kernel for 16- and 32-bit MCUs
Bmp writer: C module for painless generation of bmp screenshots (mainly for embedded usage)
DFTrig: C module for calculation of trigonometric functions by lookup table, table generator included.
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Vim

Vim: convenient code navigation for your projects: thorough explanation of advanced Indexer + Vimprj usage
Vim-Indexer: plugin for Vim that provides painless transparent tags generation
Vimprj: plugin for Vim that helps you manage options for multiple projects
Quit another window: plugin for Vim that helps you close arbitrary window without bothering to leave the current one

Qt Creator in VirtualBox with Windows guest OS

I needed to develop an utility application in Qt, which should work in Windows. I use Linux, and this is no problem since Qt is crossplatform, but anyway, to make sure resulting application works in Windows as intended, I've installed Qt in Windows guest OS in VirtualBox.

Surprisingly, at the time of writing this, there were two issues running Qt Creator in Windows guest OS.

First of all, Qt Creator crashed immediately when I start it, complaining about VBoxOGLpackspu.dll. After some googling, I found out that there is a bug in VirtualBox, and that we can work around this by disabling 3D acceleration in virtual machine.

Having that done, Qt Creator runs, but doesn't show anything useful. This is because the VirtualBox has problems rendering the QML apps/widgets, and the welcome screen in QtCreator is a QML widget. ( source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21127335/why-does-qt-creator-3-0-0-welcome-mode-not-work-in-vm )

So, to fix this, perform the following:

In Qt Creator, go to Help → About Plugins…
Uncheck Qt Creator –> Welcome
Restart Qt Creator

After this, Qt Creator works under Windows guest OS normally.

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