C++ Serialization Anyone?

Today I had one of the most amazing programming experiences that I've ever had, from my entire exciting career. I'm still a bit stun...

This just in, 20% of enterprises and most IT people are idiots

So, who still runs Internet Explorer 6? I do, because sometimes, I'm a web developer. Along with IE 6, I also run later versions of IE, ...

Programming manuals for those who "get it"

Top secret official programming manuals for certain popular hand held devices have now been uploaded to the usual public document reposito...

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 ...

Simplifying bootstrapping for virtual constructors

Last week I demonstrated a solution to the virtual constructor problem. My solution avoids many issues with the factory function solution. ...

Time to shutdown the factory for code violations

There's a common problem in software development regarding how to create an object's type dynamically in C++ and similar languages. ...

Undocumented APIs

This topic has been kicked around all over for at least a decade. It's kind of hard to read a computer programming magazine, third party...

Does anyone understand types and magnitudes?

Regularly I have to work with many popular libraries out there, as well as many libraries written by coworkers and similar. One thing which ...