General computing

Contents:

• Introducing Unicode
  • Unicode
  • Encoding
• XML from absolutely nothing
  • XML elements
  • XML documents
  • Reading XML
• Points on floats
• Floating point error
• Developing on windows
  • My system(s)
  • Basic setup
  • SSH setup
  • Windows compiler and build tools
  • SWIG
• Developing on linux
  • My systems
  • Basic setup
  • Setting up virtualenvs
• Bare metal WAF
  • Overview
  • A taster
  • waf commands
  • How the build gets built
  • run_str Variable substitution
  • IPython debugging in waf
• Windows DLLs - information
• Notes on Windows containers
  • Set up for using containers
  • Container images
  • Using Windows containers
  • Using Windows containers with Docker
  • Example of installing into a container
• Notes on Python compiled with MinGW-w64

You might also be interested on my docosx pages about developing on OSX.