By Unknown Sabtu, 30 Oktober 2010 compatibility competition crazy executives distribution Google HTTP KDE Mozilla open source Portability pure failure standards compliance Windows 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, ...
By Unknown Minggu, 24 Oktober 2010 API binary BIOS closed source compatibility competition CPU Detection parameters protocols 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...
By Unknown Minggu, 19 September 2010 bad code directory file descriptor fstatat good code Hashing language Library open source opendir Optimization readdir searching sorting torture 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 ...
By Unknown Sabtu, 24 Juli 2010 factory Function Pointers good code insane ideas Optimization parameters types 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. ...
By Unknown Selasa, 20 Juli 2010 bad code binary factory Function Pointers good code insane ideas Optimization pure failure types 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. ...
By Unknown Kamis, 03 Juni 2010 API binary bugs closed source compatibility competition Firefox iphone Library Mac OS X Mozilla open source Optimization parameters Portability pure failure Windows 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...
By Unknown Sabtu, 27 Maret 2010 API bad code binary bugs C++-0x C++-201x c99 good code language Library parameters Portability pure failure secure signed standards compliance types unsigned x86 x86-64 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 ...