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News

01/10		Introducing Pyxis, the readable alternative to XML f... Introduction to Pyxis syntax by example with application to Eiffel configuration files. Link to Pyxis to XML conversion tool for 64-bit...
12/08		For an I/O operation, in case of errors do you prefe...
08/22		eposix Make the Unix POSIX API available to programmers. And lot more goodies like Eiffel's best MIME parser, CGI programming, IMAP interface, etc.
06/18		EiffelRE2 An Eiffel wrapper for Google's RE2 regular expression evaluator
12/16		Help needed with Eiffel program using hashed_dictionary

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Blogs

01/23		Concurrency seminars Ever more people are realizing that concurrency is at the center of IT challenges for the next decades. Concurrent programming remains...
01/13		Webinar today: the Varieties of Loop Invariants I did not have time to complete my Monday post this week; it will be for next Monday (title: Never design a language). In the meantime,...
01/02		Various interviews Over the past few months I have given a few interviews to Russian news outlets on technology- and software-related issues. Here are the...
12/28		Webinars Dec. 29: (1) Model-based contracts (2) Asse... The Saint Petersburg Software Engineering seminar (organized jointly by ITMO and SPbSPU universities) takes place every Thursday,...
12/27		Guest article: funding great research In a blog article posted in its original version on this blog [1] and in a revised version on the Communications of the ACM blog [2], I...

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Updates

08/22		eposix
06/18		EiffelRE2
12/03		eOpenGL
08/17		guide (previously: ...
07/06		eMPC

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Updated Articles

01/10		Introducing Pyxis, ...
10/19		Output and by-refer...
10/07		Underused expanded ...
05/18		Eiffel callback tra...
05/12		Agents versus Adapters

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Recent Popular

	Using externals in ...
	Testing tool for Ei...
	In The Beginning Go...
	Reading File Content
	Stumbling across er...

Top Requests

	Average Rating
Improve the EiffelStudio's wizard with additional options	4.857145
Looking at two sections of a class in same editor	2.166665
Call append with manifest arrays on some container classes	2.4
Highlight current line in EiffelStudio editor	4.22222
Make EiffelStudio a Tool for Adding Target Platforms to EiffelStudio	0

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Recent Requests

	Average Rating	Updated
Help needed with Eiffel program using hashed_dictionary	0	12/10
Handling of WPF interfaces subtleties	0	05/10
What about following editor tab creation strategy	5	04/10
Make EiffelStudio a Tool for Adding Target Platforms to EiffelStudio	0	12/09
Highlight current line in EiffelStudio editor	4.22222	09/09

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Requests completed

	Average Rating	Updated
feature requests and voting	4	07/09

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Poll

For an I/O operation, in case of errors do you prefer to get an exception, or to check for it after?

Exception based

25%

Error checking

75%

Total votes: 4