Effective Modern C++ Quick Review and Sale

For those of you familiar with Scott Meyers amazing Effective C++ and Effective STL (both of which I highly recommend to C++ programmers),...

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...

A stronger C/C++ Preprocessor

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

C++-201x Variadic Templates

C++-201x (or C++-0x as near sighted individuals like to call it) introduced a new feature called variadic templates, which allows a template...

They actually want bad code

So I was in this huge meeting yesterday, and I got the shock of my life. We were discussing how we're going to go about creating and mar...

Why online services suck

Does anyone other than me think online services suck? The thing that annoys me the most is language settings. Online service designers one d...