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 ...

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...

Happy "Holidays" From Google

If you use GMail, you probably got this message recently: Happy Holidays from Google Hello, As we near the end of the year, we wan...

Cryptic Linux Distro Updates

We're almost in 2010, I thought by now to anyone who basically knows how to use a computer, general upgrade prompts in Linux Distros wou...