any moons ago, I presented C++’s basic time and date facilities. At that time, however, I didn’t demonstrate how to format and customize the date and time. Such customizations may
num types have been a valuable asset in the arsenal of C++ programmers for many years. However, their current specification has some security loopholes that can lead to bugs and
ultithreaded applications are notoriously difficult to write, test, and debug. However, to take full advantage of the added performance potential of multicore desktop and laptop systems, developers now face the
onstant expressions are tricky. Not all of them have an overt const qualifier. Furthermore, in some cases, a const-qualified variable is just a constant, but not a constant expression. These
pen source AJAX frameworks and toolkits have matured to the point where they can handle just about any rich Internet application development task. To provide a reference guide for how
o you want to jump into the AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development fray, but you don’t want to make the XMLHttpRequest calls directly by writing the XMLHttpRequest code yourself.
ot so long ago, developers had to work directly with the XMLHTTPRequest object or use some very rudimentary libraries to get any AJAX work done. When I wrote my first
ost Windows users are familiar with tool tips?the little “balloon” that pops up when you position your mouse over an icon. Tool tips are very useful user interface (UI) enhancements
Many object-oriented programming languages allow a constructor to delegate its object initialization to another constructor of the same class. But in C++98, this isn’t permitted. Consequently, a C++ class with