?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,
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