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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

f you’ve been programming in C++ for any time at all then you’re familiar with variadic functions, functions (such as printf) that can take a variable number of arguments. C99

As job losses in the U.S. mount, under pressure not only from the current economic downturn/depression, but also from foreign competition, de-unionization, outsourcing, offshoring, and imported labor (both legal and

any applications use a loop that fills a raw memory buffer with data, processes that data, and then clears that buffer before the next iteration. Standard containers such as vectoraren’t

Publishers take heed: If you don’t have the content, the readers won’t come.   As a publisher of developer-related content, I spend a significant amount of time researching technical topics,

For those of you who didn’t attend Scott Ambler and Terry Quatrani’s keynote “Software Development Strategies, Philosophies, and Techniques: Traditional vs. Agile” at this week’s SD West conference, let me

previous 10-Minute Solution demonstrated the new initialization rules of C++09, which enable you to initialize standard containers (among the rest) in the following manner: vector scores = {89, 76, 98,