= Solar's Development Home =
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== About DEV ==

This is [http://rootdirectory.de/solar/index.html Solar]'s Development Home. Effectively a subdomain dedicated to all things related to programming and software engineering.

== What's in here? ==

=== TEFKAPP ===

In April 2001, it became clear to me that my favourite computer OS / platform (Amiga) was going nowhere. The immediate future of operating systems would be divided between Windows and Linux, a dreary prospect.

Later that year I initiated a project somewhat presumptuously named "Project for a Perfect Operating System" (Pro-POS). It differed from many other [http://wiki.osdev.org hobbyist OS development projects] in its ambitious goals and, ultimately, its very limited progress when I pulled the plug on Pro-POS mid-2004.

Only a few documents, concepts and ideas remain from that project, which I preserved on my homepage under the moniker "TEFKAPP" - the effort formerly known as Pro-POS.

Now, almost six years later, I consider reviving some of these documents, adding some of the experience I gained during those years, and keeping them here for further reference in a more generic context.

'''Note:''' ''None of these documents were quite finished when Pro-POS called quits, and they do not necessarily represent what I would write on these subjects, today.''

 * [wiki:VersioningStyleGuide]
 * [wiki:CodingStyleGuide]
 * [wiki:ProPOSDocuments]
 * [wiki:ProPOS-FAQ]
 * [wiki:DesignRants]

=== Misc. Source ===

There are many tiny scripts and mini-projects that have accumulated on my hard drive; I use the Subversion repository attached to this Trac to store them off-site in case my hard drive dies violently (and for the odd reference lookup - "how did I do that again?" - you know the kind).

Unless otherwise noted, all my sources are released under the [http://pdclib.rootdirectory.de/trac.fcgi/wiki/License PDCLib License] (i.e., Public Domain for all practical purposes except in name due to a braindead restriction in German copyright law).

'''[wiki:Projector]''''

A tool to help organizing a project with many sub-components in a Subversion repository. Click the title for the project page, or check out via SVN [https://srv7.svn-repos.de/dev34/dev here]. '''Status: Concept Phase'''

=== Rants ===

Some things I've written so often, in various contexts, that I felt I should write them up once in a central place and merely provide a link when the subject comes up again.

This is the place.

  * [wiki:SolarsMachete]

=== Web Links ===

Some useful links I want to keep.

  * [http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/CPlus/IOStream.doc I/O Streams in Standard C++]

== Can I join? ==

There's nothing to be joined here. Consider this a static personal homepage that happens to run on a dynamic backend (so I can better edit it).

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