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, ...
Minggu, 24 Oktober 2010
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BIOS
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CPU Detection
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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...
Minggu, 19 September 2010
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directory
file descriptor
fstatat
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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 ...
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. ...
Selasa, 20 Juli 2010
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factory
Function Pointers
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insane ideas
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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. ...
Kamis, 03 Juni 2010
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closed source
compatibility
competition
Firefox
iphone
Library
Mac OS X
Mozilla
open source
Optimization
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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...
Sabtu, 27 Maret 2010
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C++-201x
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secure
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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 ...
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