September 29, 2004

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Onward and Upward: Porting Apps to Higher JDK Versions

September 29, 2004 8:09 am

he IT industry is synonymous with change. Every day sees some new software version or specification released, which necessitates constant upgrades. Programming professionals often must upgrade business applications to the new versions of the software upon which they are built. To accommodate these rapidly changing business requirements, Sun Microsystems releases

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Simplify Operator Overloading

September 29, 2004 4:09 am

For beginning C++ programmers, operator overloading may seem like a complicated task, but in fact, it’s really simple. You can overload operators in two ways: On non-member functions. On member functions. When overloading operators on non-member functions, the expression looks like

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Design Patterns: Basic Building Blocks or Passing Fancy?

September 29, 2004 3:09 am

everal years ago, Bill Watterson wrote a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin asked: “How do they know the load limit on bridges, Dad?” and his father answers: “They drive bigger and bigger trucks over the bridge until it breaks. Then they weigh the last truck and rebuild the