Optimizing your file dialog

Recently, someone asked me why is it that the custom file dialogs in some programs I wrote are able to load a file list so much faster than ...

Directory safety when working with paths

As we discussed in our previous two articles, we run into issues of thread safety when we try changing the path during a running program. ...

File Descriptors and why we can't use them

Those of you who have been programming for a UNIX based OS for a while have surely felt the power of file descriptors. One prevalent problem...