2011

Progression and Regression of Desktop User Interfaces

As this Gregorian year comes to a close, with various new interfaces out now, and some new ones on the horizon, I decided to recap my person...

Last week I discussed 6 different methods on how to quickly get an entire file into a C++ string . The conclusion was that the straight forw...

So here's a simple question, what is the correct way to read in a file completely in C++? Various people have various solutions, those w...

If you want a nice curses based GUI to add and remove modules from Linux on the fly, you probably used modconf. They say it's deprecated...

Ever felt you needed some preprocessing to generate some C/C++ code for you, but the C preprocesssor is too lacking? Say for example you wan...

Google announced they're shutting down Code Search . I found Google Code Search to be invaluable in the kind of work I do. I saved tons...

Ever wanted to make a non rectangular array? Meaning for example, some multidimensional array where a[0] has 3 members and a[1] has 5 member...

So what happens to __func__ in different scopes? How about GCC's extension for pretty function names? #include <iostream> using n...

With recent attacks against SSL/TLS and certificates , everyone has been thinking a lot about security. What can we do to prevent security ...