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++98 has two native character types: char and wchar_t. The latter is purportedly used for manipulating Unicode strings. In reality however, wchar_t is unsuitable for this purpose. The C++09 standard

A month ago, I discussed the strfmt() function. A timely announcement from Microsoft has inspired me to write a column about a related topic, namely accessing the system’s Daylight Saving

To supress JavaScript error messages, simply place this snippet in the Head section of your Web page: &ltSCRIPT language=”JavaScript”&gtfunction dontshowerrormessages() {return true;}window.onerror=dontshowerrormessages; An even better method is to use the

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.