In this article I will focus on the basic features of the language, future articles will cover more advanced topics such as inheritance, interfaces and attributes. After reading this series of articles you will have a basis for determining if C# is for you.

Welcome to the first installment in a series of articles exploring GUI programming with the Qt C++ toolkit.

Another year, another ACCU conference. And this year's conference, like its predecessors, was an excellent event. In this write-up a number of attendees will tantalise you with brief reports of what went on. Let it serve as a memory-jog and piece of nostalgia for those who attended, and as an encouragement to come next year.

In my previous article we learnt the important optimisation process, the steps that ensure any optimisation really is worthwhile. Being eager code monkeys, I can see that you're all desperate for practical code optimisation techniques.

So here they are - in this final part we'll investigate specific code techniques for optimisation. Just don't tell anyone that I showed you. To redress the theological balance, we'll also see how to avoid optimisation in the first place.