Boost, C++ library

For people who came from software engineering background, all are familiar with STL, standard template library, having containers, iterators, algorithms, and functions. Now, quietly, there comes Boost library, which specializes on generic programming and meta-programming. The gossips over the internet indicated it to be high bar open source project, touching topics like linear algebra, regular expression, image processing... Most of the source files were just header files, no need for compilation. I think this library is next item to learn for people who just conquered STL. Check out these links:

Boost Threading Tutorial
Boost Regex Tutorial by O'Reilly

Get Visual Studio project files from Qt .pro project file

For VS2008:

qmake -spec win32-msvc2008 -tp vc

For VS2005:

qmake -spec win32-msvc2005 -tp vc

Qt 4.7 partial rebuild took nearly 7h

Lately, I downloaded the latest Qt 4.7 for VS2008 from Nokia website. And found out that I have to rebuilt it statically in order to avoid loading Qt dlls. Since I need webkit and image support, I put down the following commands and wanted to get it ready after a coffee break:

C:\Qt\4.7.0>configure -static -qt-sql-sqlite -no-qt3support -no-opengl -platform win32-msvc2008 -no-dbus -no-phonon -no-phonon-backend -webkit -qt-libjpeg -no-mmx -no-openssl -qt-gif -qt-libpng -no-3dnow -qt-libtiff -multimedia -audio-backend

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I got the partial rebuilt done in 7 h on my lenovo T61. It has built release and debug versions of above mentioned library.