The failure of fragmented security

With recent attacks against SSL/TLS and certificates , everyone has been thinking a lot about security. What can we do to prevent security ...

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...

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, ...

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...

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. ...