n July 2009, the C++ standards committee voted into the C++0x Working Paper new attribute tokens that regulate the overriding of virtual functions in a derived class. These new attributes
hat’s the number one concern when it comes to adopting a cloud computing strategy? Security. A company considering the cloud has to explore the security of the third-party cloud platform,
Over the past several weeks, I’ve had the obligatory parental experience of teaching a teenager to drive. This can be a nerve-wracking process as the new driver learns the mechanics
he C++ literature uses the phrase “most vexing parse” to denote one of the dark syntactic alleys of C++. It’s vexing because programmers usually don’t even know it exists; they
At the opening keynote of this week’s Oracle OpenWorld Conference, Sun Chairman and Co-founder Scott McNealy called the father of Java, James Gosling, on stage to again reiterate Oracle’s dedication
ere’s a common scenario: a base class has multiple constructors, each of which takes a different number of parameters of various types. A derived class has to declare “mirror constructors”
ace conditions are an inherent part of parallel programming. A race condition exists any time a program’s behavior may depend on the relative ordering of events on separate threads. In
very declaration of an enum type must be a complete definition containing a full list of its enumerators. However, in some use cases declaring an enumeration without providing the enumerators
?year ago, everyone was all but certain that the C++0x standard was just around the corner, and that it would include concepts (see Danny Kalev’s earlier interview with Bjarne Stroustrup,