I heard about a Web 2.0 service called sliderocket by chance. It's a Rich Internet Application with which you can create a presentation slide. Because the service is in the preview phase, you can use it only after you sign up and get the invitation. Fortunately I got the invitation a few days ago about a month after I signed up.

I tried it. As I heard, it definitely followed the 'Keynote' on Mac as a role model.

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Here you can see slides of the title 'CI' I made.

This is one slide of it. You can see the transition fx option at the right pane.


These options are about text inputs. Through Effects and Builds tabs, you can add several eye candies to your presentation.

I played the slide after applying 'CubeRotate' as a transition fx.. You can see a 'fullscreen' play button at the botton-right corner.

My impressions was that it lacks some detailed functions compared to similar desktop softwares, but it provides sufficient services for a succinct presentation slide. Since it's in the early preview phase, there seem to be some bugs in it. Nevertheless it is certainly one of promising RIAs.

I always have been interested in the theme of Continuous Integration(a.k.a. CI). I have thought my current team was applying the CI pretty well, I find out still there are many things to improve.

Especially, following two points were useful.

• Don't do everything in the CI build. If the build time exceeds 10 minutes, people begin to complain. Do tasks which requires a heavy processing in a separate periodic bulid(like a daily build).
  
• Complement the testing by using static & dynamic code analysis tools.

Static code analysis checks code duplications, possible errors and coding standard violations. Dynamic analysis checks the coverage of test codes. Unfortunately It's hard to find an useful free analysis tool for C++ language. This book informed me about two tools which support C++ : SourceMonitor and Simian.

SourceMonitor measures the code complexity. A complex code means a weak spot for bug penetration, so when refactoring you should pay attention to them first. Simian checks code similarities so that a copy & paste code which goes against the 'Don't Repeat Yourself' principle sneaks into the code base. A simple tutorial about how to set up these two tools is in my wiki(only in Korean).

Does anyone know about free C++ code coverage tools?