C++ Best Practice – Designing Header Files

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #72 - Apr 2006 ]

C-side Re-sort
Description : In spite of the attention given to object-oriented development, TDD and modern testing frameworks, it is worth understanding how and why unit testing has an important role to play in general, regardless of the technologies or broader development philosophy involved. This article walks through a simple example, highlighting some of the motivation behind basic unit testing and the practices involved but without following through into TDD.
Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #68 - Aug 2005 ]

C++ Interface Classes - Noise Reduction
Description : Interface classes are a principle mechanism for separating a class' interface from its implementation in C++. I wrote an introduction to interface classes in a previous article. In this article, I intend to explore interface classes - and their implementation classes - further.
Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #68 - Aug 2005 ]

C++ Properties - a Library Solution

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #65 - Feb 2005 ]

C Abuse

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #65 - Feb 2005 ]

C++ Lookup Mysteries

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #63 - Oct 2004 ]

Creating Standard GUI Applications
Description :

In this second installment of our series on GUI programming with the Qt C++ toolkit, we're going to see how to create a standard GUI application, with a menu, toolbar, status bar, and a central area.

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 16, #4 - Aug 2004 ]

C++ Templates - A Simple Example
Description : p>This article describes the C++ code for performing basic operations on matrices using templates.

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 16, #4 - Aug 2004 ]

C++ Interface Classes - An Introduction

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #62 - Aug 2004 ]

C++/CLI, Ecma TC39/TG5,and SC22/WG21
Description :

There have been many languages for writing applications, but relatively few foundation platforms which support applications that are written in various different languages. We've had assembler (proprietary), then C (an ISO standard), and now we have the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). The CLI standard is ISO/IEC 23271; the same content is also available online at http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm.

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 16, #2 - Apr 2004 ]

C++ as a Safer C

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #59 - Feb 2004 ]

Code in Comments
Description :

We have all seen comments in source files which look more like executable code than documentation.

The first line in the body of the for loop below is such a comment: you might expect to be able to remove the leading slashes and have code which compiles and runs, but functions slightly differently.

What did the author of this comment intend?

Example 0

for (Surfaces::iterator sf = surfaces.begin();
     sf != surfaces.end();
     ++sf) {
  // std::cout << "Drawing: " << *sf << "\n";
  sf->draw();
}

OK, I’m being disingenuous. I’m aware that the comment isn’t really a comment, it’s commented-out code. And, like any tolerant and capable programmer, by examining the surrounding context I can guess why this code has been commented out.

This article examines how to comment out code, then describes various problems which lead to code being commented out, before finally arguing that there’s often a better solution to these problems.

Source : Hand entered.
Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 16, #1 - Feb 2004 ]

Comment on “Problem 11”
Description :

The first step here in finding problems in the code is to identify the problem the code is trying to solve. The discussion in the C Vu article is basically about curiosities in the way in which the C++ standard library std::istream is defined, but I will make the perhaps unwarranted assumption that what the problem the code is really about is not the uses of std::istream, but rather, more generally, how to write a read routine that can effectively and safely capture data from an input stream. Actually as the first problem below illustrates neither of these issues can be effectively addressed without the other.

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 16, #1 - Feb 2004 ]

Choosing Template Parameters

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #58 - Dec 2003 ]

CheckedInt: A Policy-Based Range-Checked Integer

Category: [ Programming Topics | Overload Journal #58 - Dec 2003 ]

Copy on Write

Category: [ Programming Topics | CVu Journal Vol 15, #5 - Oct 2003 ]