Sutter's Mill:
The ISO C++ committee met in Santa Cruz, CA, USA on October 19-24. You can find the minutes here, which include the votes at the whole-group sessions but not the details of the breakout technical sessions where we spend most of the week.The good news is that there’s little new technical news. We did a lot of work during the (Read More)
DevX: Latest C++ Content:
C++'s SAFEARRAY is difficult to use. A better option is to enumerate an array's elements by repeatedly calling your own custom enumeration function and incrementing the element index.
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ScottGu's Blog:
[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the eleventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers WPF 4. WPF 4 Improvements (Read More)
Sutter's Mill:
On the flight to the ISO C standards meeting this morning, I was reading this month’s issue of CACM, and found that Sir C.A.R. (Tony) Hoare wrote a nice piece called Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming.Hoare has long been a noted proponent of axioms and formal proofs of program correctness. In that li (Read More)
Sutter's Mill:
How interesting.I’m at the ISO C++ meeting in Santa Cruz, CA, USA this week. Ten minutes ago we had a committee straw poll about whether we should remove, deprecate, or leave as-is the export template feature for C++0x. The general sentiment was to remove or deprecate it, with deprecation getting the strongest support becau (Read More)
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Submitted by Marcel
from Google Reader:
Gestern ging sie zu Ende – die Frankfurter Buchmesse – und mit ihr die Premierevorstellung des txtr Readers vor großem Publikum. Wie waren die Reaktionen auf den txtr Reader? Eine kleine Presseschau abseits der Agenturmeldungen zeigt, dass das Thema eBook-Reader für viele Redaktionen noch eher ungewohntes Terrain ist: S (Read More)
Sutter's Mill:
I recently received the following reader question (slightly edited):About the (Stroustrup) approach of implementing IsDerivedFrom at page 27 in your book More Exceptional C++: […] why the second pointer assignment in:static void Constraints(D* p) { B* pb=p; // okay, D better inherit from B… pb=p; // h (Read More)
PR Communications:
2010 is just around the corner, time to reflect on the year past, and what's happening next year. My 2009 list of online community and social media conferences blog post was one of my post popular articles last year. Use this post to plan your itinerary or 2010 speaker submissions. Below is my list of events for 2010, if y (Read More)
Submitted by Maniac D
from Google Reader:
I guess the first question that comes to mind is why would you want to integrate twitter into your widget. Until recently I would have agreed that it seems somewhat superfluous as there is an almost infinite number of Twitter clients out there, all claiming that they are better than all that have gone before them. However, (Read More)
Submitted by Maniac D
from Google Reader:
For the past few months I’ve been sharpening my Windows 7 skills and discovered what many systems people already know; “you can easily setup and boot Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 VHD.”Someone may already be thinking, why do I need to boot a VHD?It’s no secret that Microsoft will be shipping Visual Studio 2010 Beta2. If you (Read More)
VECTORTUTS:
In this tutorial we will explore the “Average” command in Adobe Illustrator, and learn how to use it in rather unusual way. In this case, we’ll create abstract swirls using relatively simple methods and apply it to type. Let’s get started!Final Image PreviewBelow is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to (Read More)
Conversation Agent:
The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood
by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes
the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and
need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in
“why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an e (Read More)
VECTORTUTS:
This is a basic illustration tutorial combined with a practical overview of file preparation for Digital Textile Printing. After a long process of trial and error I’ve developed a streamlined process for creating files for digital textile printing. This is the perfect tutorial for people wanting to learn basic file preparat (Read More)
Learn C++:
Character accessThere are two almost identical ways to access characters in a string. The easier to use and faster version is the overloaded operator[]:char& string::operator[] (size_type nIndex)const char& string::operator[] (size_type nIndex) constBoth of these functions return the character with index nIndexPassing an i (Read More)