Is Scala Really the Next C++?
I’ve been turning that question over in my head for a few months now. It’s really a worthy thought. At face value, it’s incredibly derogatory and... more »
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Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
"Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the layout, numerous classes as well as the color scheme you’ve... more »
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ProjectEuler problem 1 in C, Groovy, Lisp, Perl, Python, and Ruby
My blog post about the first problem in Project Euler went strange places. I was just trying to learn Python by solving a barely non-trivial... more »
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A Programming Job Interview Challenge
Recently, I ran into an interesting job interview question in C++ which I want to share. Lets take a look at the following code...
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Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics
The standard idea of code aesthetics, when such an idea manifests itself at all, allows for programmers to have elegance and clarity as their... more »
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Coherence for C++
Brian Oliver already spilled the [Java]beans, or more appropriately let the C++ out of the bag, so there's not much more to say, other than that as of... more »
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30+ Free Online Books
Bellow I provide links for almost 40 of the best online books I was able to locate through a few quick searches on google. Topics include,... more »
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Bjarne Stroustrup on the Evolution of Languages
Every once in a while, an evolutionary leap rapidly advances and reshapes the entire field of engineering. Such a leap occurred in software... more »
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Why Is MFC Not Dead Yet?
Why developers still use MFC instead of .NET and some of the reasons/motivations behind their decisons.
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i[3] or 3[i]
The mistake I made was I wrote the index_number[name of array] ( Wrote 3[i] instead of i[3] ) and it gave the same result as it should have given, if... more »
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Why Lambda will Change C++
Of all the new features coming into C++'s next version of the language standard, I think definitely one of the things which will make the single... more »
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Evil Compiler Tricks, and Checking for Pointer Math
My favorite programming geek hobby being integer overflows, this caught my eye – "gcc silently discards some wraparound checks"
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How to Access C++ from Java
JNIEasy is a development Java library focused on JNI access to C/C++ native methods. Here Jose, its creator, tells you all about it via an example... more »
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An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup discusses the evolving C++0x standard, the education of programmers, and the future of programming.
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A Little C++ To Boost Your Spirit
Take a look at the following snippet of valid C++ code and tell me C++ is not the perfect language for DSLs! ;=)
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SafeD - D Programming Language 2.0
I've seen some very good programmers move away from C++ in favor of languages like Java or C#. Being a hard-core C++ programmer myself, I wondered why... more »
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CERT C++ secure coding standard
A follow-up of "CERT C secure coding standard", but for C++.
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Fast Delegates for Effective Game Logic in C++
Fast delegates are a C++ version of closures, which are basically functions bound to an execution environment. Delegates, in practice, are used as a... more »
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glTrail - realtime website usage visualization
View real-time relations and activities from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an entertaining way.
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if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative
Did you know there's an alternative way of writing "if .. else if .. else if .. etc.." in C/C++, C# and Java? You probably do, but if you don't, read... more »
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Programming Tutorials, Java Tutorials, dotNET Tutorials
Programming Tutorials, Learn Programming with Tutorials and Programming Examples - Java, dotNET, C#, C, C++, PHP, Linux, Visual Basic etc...
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Lessons Learned Scaling the Audiogalaxy Search Engine
A review of the lessons learned when building a custom, high performance search engine and some ideas about how it could have been improved.
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When duplication is not duplication
Allow me to let you in on a little secret. Calling the same function twice is NOT duplicating code. Not if the arguments change between calls.
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Edit, run, and share code samples on a website.
Good for getting help with code, showing someone how to do something, or trying something out when you don't have an interpreter handy (say, from your... more »
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Latest XML Parsing and Memory Benchmark
This benchmark report compares the parsing performance of VTD-XML, Xerces DOM, Pull, Piccolo and Xerces SAX. It also compares the memory usage of... more »
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