I've always seen and hated those weird macros that preceded functions of header files. Why couldn't they be clean and simple? I hated them because I didn't know much about them, they seemed arbitrary, prone to error, non-standard, no way of knowing the real motivation behind. 

Not anymore. Today I had to create an intermediary DLL between two different object file formats and I had to go down to the level of dirty and hacky in the quest to make it work. And I stumbled upon this awesome page that has the "ultimate header file" template. I discovered half the things there myself, but it nailed the coffin of problems for me. 

Here are the problems that I had to tackle in general:

hahaha I might not have an iPhone but I have the simulator. I'll edit this and add a screenshot:)

(attached is the screenshot)

Here we go. I formatted my laptop hard drive, wiping away both Windows and Gentoo Linux... It was a tough choice nevertheless, but I had to because (1) my reiserfs partition got corrupted and some config files at my home directory were unwriteable (creating all kinds of fun), (2) my windows partition was too small to do any development on, (3) with the advisor change, I stopped using my laptop at work. I also stopped using Linux at work and entered into the mighty world of Java and Windows, a very positive experience indeed. 

Bir haftadir 21 gunluk vatani gorevimi yapiyorum, merak eden herkese selamlar, ben iyiyim.

I've been doing my military service for a week now. I'm OK in case you were wondering.