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Overload Journal #98 - August 2010 and Design of applications and programs
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Renovating a Legacy C++ Project

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12 September 2010 20:08:00 +01:00

Over time projects tend to become hard to maintain. Alan Griffiths describes how one was improved.

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Single-Threading: Back to the Future? (Part 2)

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12 September 2010 20:07:00 +01:00

Multithreading can cause notoriously difficult bugs. Sergey Ignatchenko finds mitigating strategies for programs on servers.

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Quality Matters: The Worst Form of 'Error' Handling Except For All The Others

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12 September 2010 20:05:00 +01:00

Dealing with errors is a vital part of good programming. Matthew Wilson specifies a taxonomy.