Copying code != Copying implementation

A little over a week ago, I wrote an article about some common porting mistakes for a new library - LibreSSL. I've since received multi...

LibreSSL: The good and the bad

OpenSSL & LibreSSL OpenBSD recently forked the popular SSL/TLS library OpenSSL into LibreSSL . Most of the reaction to this that I...

Designing C++ functions to write/save to any storage mechanism

Problem A common issue when dealing with a custom object or any kind of data is to create some sort of save functionality with it, perhaps w...

Reading in an entire file at once in C++, part 2

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...

How to read in a file in C++

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...

Goodbye Google

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...

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. ...