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Question: How do I connect my new Jornada 548 to the Internet and, once connected, access AOL (not AOL mail)? Answer: AOL provides AOL Instant Messenger in Windows CE format.

Question: What other skills besides Visual Interdev, VB, ASP, and DCOM/COM do I need to jump into Wireless development? Also, do you think Java technologies will take over Microsoft technologies

Question: Do all WAP-enabled devices support WMLScript? If not, how do I find out which ones do? Answer: WMLScript is compiled into bytecode before running on the WAP client—it is

Many programmers think of automatic garbage collection (GC) as the Holy Grail of programming that will free them from every conceivable bug. This approach is wrong, though. One has to

In pre-standard C++, the strstream family of classes was used as buffered stream classes. These classes are now considered deprecated; you should use the stringstream family of classes instead. For

The notion of invariants was introduced nearly 30 years ago. In essence, an invariant is the property that makes the state of an object well-defined. Usually, the invariant of a

You should use memcpy() only for copying POD (plain old data) types, but not class objects. For copying objects, use their assignment operator or the std::copy() algorithm. Remember also that

A compound statement is a sequence of one or more statements enclosed between { and }. For example: for (int n=0; n

A function that can be safely called while it’s already executing is said to be re-entrant. The C++ standard doesn’t state whether the Standard Library’s functions are re-entrant; this is