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. ...

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...