If you’re going to host a tech conference in the middle of a global recession, O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) wouldn’t be a bad choice. What does a bear market
hat were you doing during the morning hours (EST) of July 13th 2009? On that auspicious day, in a dramatic vote, the C++ standards committee decided to remove concepts from
ormally, you initialize data members in a constructor’s member initialization list. When a class has multiple constructors, each constructor initializes the object’s members individually, which often leads to repeating the
Recently, I learned a valuable lesson in modern programming efficiency: Problem-solving abilities often take a backseat to information retrieval and analysis. I was working on an application that saved images
hen implementing a sequence of elements that needs to grow and shrink dynamically, std::vector is a fine choice. It provides the convenience of a standard container class, including automatic memory
The new Sun boss put the OpenOffice and JavaFX groups on notice during the JavaOne opening keynote today: Produce some JavaFX libraries for the OpenOffice suite and do it quickly.
y recent C++ 10-Minute Solution titled “Using a Good Parasite Class to Design a Self-Clearing Memory Buffer” was greeted with skepticism, raised eyebrows, and a torrent of questions from readers
++ constructs such as functions, types, variables, and blocks are associated with implicit properties that you sometimes need to override. Certain constructs require you to specify their unusual properties, for
When Oracle bought Sun, it got Java. If you make your living in Java development, that statement can make you cringe, smile, or shrug—depending on how well you think Sun