icrosoft released SharePoint to the market back in 2000/2001 and, in doing so, began a shift in perception about how Web applications are built. The change was slow at first
ontrolling the number of fractional digits after the decimal point is a common requirement in various application domains?including dialog boxes, relational databases, financial applications, SMS messages, and when processing data
bject reflection libraries, debugging tools, and code analyzers often need to access functions’ names at runtime. Until not long ago, the only portable way to accomplish this was to manually
o matter how well you write and understand high-level programming languages, your applications can probably benefit if you’re willing to dig down into the lower-level code that makes the computer
n classic Gang of Four book. Similarly, the term “algorithm” used in this context refers to the implementation of an ordinary member function, not the generic algorithms of STL. Redesign
++ has about 10 distinct integral datatypes and three more floating point datatypes. Each datatype has different numeric properties such as the numeric range, the maximum number of digits it
ou may have noticed that synthesized voices are becoming more commonplace. Hundreds, if not thousands of electronic toys and gadgets speak to their owners in robotic voices. Whether it is
llocating objects on a predetermined memory address has become a popular idiom in recent years, particularly in mobile programming, embedded systems, and custom garbage collectors. However, the technique shown in
any design patterns and programming idioms rely on the use of friend declarations. However, when friend declarations are used in templates, the obfuscated syntax can bewilder even expert programmers. This