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Best C++ article of November 2012

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18 Dec 2012Lars [Large] Werner
Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.
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2 Nov 2012Elias Bachaalany
Format of the partition table accompanied with a GUI demonstration tool
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6 Feb 2013Fred Song (Melbourne)
Implement a WPF new mail notification.
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12 Nov 2012Severin Friede
This article should help you building log4cxx with Visual Studio 2010
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12 Nov 2012Andy Kirkham
Part 2 - Stepping into the C++ world
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21 Nov 2012Chris_Green
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend the Software Architect Conference this year in London.  This is the same group which puts on DevWeek.  It was short and sweet, just 2 days without the additional sessions before and after.
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26 Nov 2012alex turner
C takes far too long to code up when complex data marshalling or logic gets involved. Also, the very act of writing it is so slow because of its challenges to the IDE.
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6 Nov 2012PJ Arends
I needed to disable the Sleep button on my keyboard, here's how.
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9 Nov 2012Prashant Sridharan
How to access and employ data stored in a person’s Facebook profile to personalize app experiences
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23 Nov 2012Marius Bancila
In this post, I will discuss range generators and range conversion operators.
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1 Nov 2012Subhendu Sekhar Behera
Algorithm to find out all the Matchings and Uniquely Restricted Matchings in a Graph
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6 Nov 2012Pranay Rana
Design TypeDataSet from Storedprocedure using temptable
7 Jan 2013Plantronics
High-Level Call Management ICallCommand: Benefits of Newer Spokes SDK
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12 Nov 2012Satish Natu1
The article shows a conflation algorithm with minimal contention overhead for the data producer.
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13 Nov 2012Orjan Westin
In this article, we will write a simple multi-threaded example implementation of the Observer pattern, and show how to re-synchronise a past event to look current. Then we’ll demonstrate a technique to treat future events like they’re current, too.
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23 Nov 2012Marius Bancila
In this post, I will discuss the set operators the library provides
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23 Nov 2012Marius Bancila
An introduction to cpplinq
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23 Nov 2012alex turner
Life can be more fun in tuples!
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3 Jan 2015Espen Harlinn
A fast, reference counted, copy-on-write string class
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3 Nov 2012Marius Bancila
An introduction to cpplinq, a open-source template library that provides LINQ-like operators for querying collections (arrays and STL containers) in C++11.
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19 Aug 2015Huzifa Terkawi
A good reference for CDockablePane
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28 May 2015Cristian Amarie
Outlook add-in integration for Skype IM: Skype events, Outlook Skype ribbon, and more.
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1 Dec 2012Nicolas Dorier
Debugger API, explore and modify running program easily
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30 May 2013Mohit Arora 1 alternative  
An article that shows how to create a simple Windows service in C++.
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9 Nov 2012Ashley Davis
Introducing Investigo: Using a Proxy DLL and embedded HTTP server for DirectX9 Performance Analysis, Debugging and Automated Performance Testing
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6 Nov 2012Philipp Sch
How to use an IStream-Interface with FFmpeg
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1 Jan 2013Dávid Kocsis
A new general purpose language that aims to be fast, high level and simple to use.
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27 Jan 2013Khaldoon Ghanem
This article describes how to visualize complex-valued functions of a single complex variable using the domain coloring method on GPU.
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2 Dec 2012OlegKrivtsov
How to automate collecting information about critical errors occurring in your program to greatly simplify your life in sense of bug analysis and troubleshooting.
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10 Nov 2012Andy Kirkham
Part 1 - Setting up and getting started
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16 Jul 2015Chris La 1 alternative  
How to create a server-client network quickly using template server-client framework, EpServerEngine (C++ and Windows Winsock).
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14 Apr 2014john morrison leon
The missing link for complete memory and pointer safety in C++
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5 Dec 2012Andy Bantly
A class to aid in creation of AVI files
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5 Nov 2012Evgeny Miroshnichenko
2D cross-platfrom game using SDL and Open GLES 2.0
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4 Nov 2012Julijan Sribar
A WTL control to display quality rate
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16 Nov 2012Andy Bantly
An easy DOS framework for creating and managing a service
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6 Dec 2012Kenny MacLean
Using SmartMap to create objects that will clean up after themselves
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23 May 2013PraveenOjha
An android game using NDK JNI and Java.
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7 Feb 2013Kurosh F.
Design of an x86 Android game that is cross-platform compatible
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29 Nov 2012Shanan Winters
Creating Menus (with Drop-Down Sub-Menus) using Images in WPF.
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26 Nov 2012Gilad Rozban
C++ Serialization implementation
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27 Nov 2012Shahadat Hossain Mazumder
Single precision floating point and double precesion floating values operations in SSE optimization
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27 Nov 2012Amory Wong
A GLKView class that can be dropped into your project.
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16 Dec 2012Alan Churchill
This is an alternative for "Transform between IEEE, IBM or VAX floating point number formats and bytes expressions"
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18 Nov 2012john morrison leon
A brief excursion into practical contexts in which C++ references can be used effectively with discussion of the dangers in using them.
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29 Nov 2012Gareth Jensen
Tips on how to declare a class template in a header file and define a class template in a source file.

Current Participants

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Engineer A/S Norske Shell (Dutch Shell)
Norway Norway
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Visit http://lars.werner.no/ for my blog!
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Retired programmer, Norway never had the jobs I wanted Smile | :)
Software Developer (Senior) Savian
United States United States
SAS, Microsoft developer/consultant.
Web Developer
United Kingdom United Kingdom
I am now a Software Systems Developer - Senior Principal at Micro Focus Plc. I am honoured to work in a team developing new compiler and runtime technology for Micro Focus.

My past includes a Ph.D. in computational quantum mechanics, software consultancy and several/various software development and architecture positions.

For more - see

blog: http://nerds-central.blogspot.com

twitter: http://twitter.com/alexturner
Software Developer (Senior) Retired
Canada Canada
I was a senior software engineer for Electronic Arts Canada for 20 years. Some of the projects that I have developed are Evolution, Test Drive, NHL '94, NBA Live series and Need For Speed. The platforms that I have developed on are Apple II, C64, Atari 8 bit, PC, NES, SNES, Genesis and XBOX. I have now obtained my teaching certificate for grade school.
Founder
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect Solarwinds MSP, Stellar Technologies Ltd
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Hardware, Software Engineer and Systems Architect for more than 25 years cover topics from C/C++, OS (Linux and FreeBSD drivers), MySQL, Apache, PHP and embedded systems using C/C++ and Assembler.
Chief Technology Officer
Australia Australia
Software craftsman | Author | Writing rapidfullstackdevelopment.com - Posting about how to survive and flourish as a software developer

Follow on Twitter for news and updates: https://twitter.com/codecapers

I'm writing a new book: Rapid Fullstack Development. Learn from my years of experience and become a better developer.

My second book, Bootstrapping Microservices, is a practical and project-based guide to building distributed applications with microservices.

My first book Data Wrangling with JavaScript is a comprehensive overview of working with data in JavaScript.

Data-Forge Notebook is my notebook-style application for data transformation, analysis and transformation in JavaScript.

I have a long history in software development with many years in apps, web apps, backends, serious games, simulations and VR. Making technology work for business is what I do: building bespoke software solutions that span multiple platforms.

I have years of experience managing development teams, preparing technical strategies and creation of software products. I can explain complicated technology to senior management. I have delivered cutting-edge products in fast-paced and high-pressure environments. I know how to focus and prioritize to get the important things done.

Author

- Rapid Fullstack Development
- Bootstrapping Microservices
- Data Wrangling with JavaScript

Creator of Market Wizard

- https://www.market-wizard.com.au/

Creator of Data-Forge and Data-Forge Notebook

- http://www.data-forge-js.com
- http://www.data-forge-notebook.com

Web

- www.codecapers.com.au

Open source

- https://github.com/ashleydavis
- https://github.com/data-forge
- https://github.com/data-forge-notebook


Skills

- Quickly building MVPs for startups
- Understanding how to get the most out of technology for business
- Developing technical strategies
- Management and coaching of teams & projects
- Microservices, devops, mobile and fullstack software development
Software Developer
United States United States
Woong Gyu La had been working as a software developer for over 8 years.
His personal interests are improving his personal projects,

EpLibrary (Visual C++ Utility Library)
https://github.com/juhgiyo/EpLibrary[^]

EpOraLibrary (Oracle OCI Wrapper Library for Visual C++)
https://github.com/juhgiyo/EpOraLibrary[^]

EpServerEngine (Visual C++ WinSock Server/Client Engine)
https://github.com/juhgiyo/EpServerEngine[^]

And other projects can be found at
https://github.com/juhgiyo?tab=repositories[^]

Finally, my other articles can be found at
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/juhgiyo#articles[^]

You can contact me at juhgiyo@gmail.com[^]
Architect Avaya Inc.
Ireland Ireland
Formerly a C++ client developer, nowadays I'm all about C# and ASP.NET. Over the years I have mastered some and played with many aspects of .NET.

Follow my blog as I catalogue the more arcane problems I encounter and their solutions at CodingLifestyle.com
Team Leader BitDefender
Romania Romania
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
Hungary Hungary
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Web Developer
United States United States
Elias (aka lallousx86, @0xeb) has always been interested in the making of things and their inner workings.

His computer interests include system programming, reverse engineering, writing libraries, tutorials and articles.

In his free time, and apart from researching, his favorite reading topics include: dreams, metaphysics, philosophy, psychology and any other human/mystical science.

Former employee of Microsoft and Hex-Rays (the creators of IDA Pro), was responsible about many debugger plugins, IDAPython project ownership and what not.

Elias currently works as an Anticheat engineer in Blizzard Entertainment.

Elias co-authored 2 books and authored one book:

- Practical Reverse Engineering
- The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook
- The Art of Batch Files Programming
Architect Sea Surveillance AS
Norway Norway
Chief Architect - Sea Surveillance AS.

Specializing in integrated operations and high performance computing solutions.

I’ve been fooling around with computers since the early eighties, I’ve even done work on CP/M and MP/M.

Wrote my first “real” program on a BBC micro model B based on a series in a magazine at that time. It was fun and I got hooked on this thing called programming ...

A few Highlights:

  • High performance application server development
  • Model Driven Architecture and Code generators
  • Real-Time Distributed Solutions
  • C, C++, C#, Java, TSQL, PL/SQL, Delphi, ActionScript, Perl, Rexx
  • Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS, IBM DB2, PostGreSQL
  • AMQP, Apache qpid, RabbitMQ, Microsoft Message Queuing, IBM WebSphereMQ, Oracle TuxidoMQ
  • Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere
  • Corba, COM, DCE, WCF
  • AspenTech InfoPlus.21(IP21), OsiSoft PI


More information about what I do for a living can be found at: harlinn.com or LinkedIn

You can contact me at espen@harlinn.no
Russian Federation Russian Federation
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Australia Australia
Fred is a senior software developer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. In 1993, he started Programming using Visual C++, Visual Basic, Java, and Oracle Developer Tools. From 2003, He started with .Net using C#, and then expertise .Net development.

Fred is often working with software projects in different business domains based on different Microsoft Technologies like SQL-Server, C#, VC++, ASP.NET, ASP.Net MVC, WCF,WPF, Silverlight, .Net Core and Angular, although he also did some development works on IBM AS400.
Student Saddleback Community College
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
Israel Israel
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Arab Republic
C++ , MFC , Win32 professional Developer.
Retired
Spain Spain
Software Author with engineering, science and mathematical background.

Many years using C++ to develop responsive visualisations of fine grained dynamic information largely in the fields of public transport and supply logistics. Currently interested in what can be done to make the use of C++ cleaner, safer, and more comfortable.
Software Developer (Senior)
Croatia Croatia
Graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb (Croatia) and received M.Sc. degree in electronics. For several years he was research and lecturing assistant in the fields of solid state electronics and electronic circuits, published several scientific and professional papers, as well as a book "Physics of Semiconductor Devices - Solved Problems with Theory" (in Croatian).
During that work he gained interest in C++ programming language and have co-written "C++ Demystified" (in Croatian), 1st edition published in 1997, 2nd in 2001, 3rd in 2010, 4th in 2014.
After book publication, completely switched to software development, programming mostly in C++ and in C#.
In 2016 coauthored the book "Python for Curious" (in Croatian).
Software Developer Laservision
Australia Australia
I have been programming since I was a kid, text based adventure games on the C64 in those good old days then went on to complete CS degree. Since then I've been a contract programmer for the last 12 years developing for web, mobile, desktop and game consoles. Currently I'm working for Laservision were I get to play with lasers and video projectors for fun and profit.

So glad C++ is going through a bit of a renaissance at the moment as it's my favourite language
Student RWTH Aachen
Germany Germany
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
India India
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect Visma Software
Romania Romania
Marius Bancila is the author of Modern C++ Programming Cookbook and The Modern C++ Challenge. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2006, initially for VC++ and nowadays for Development technologies. He works as a system architect for Visma, a Norwegian-based company. He works with various technologies, both managed and unmanaged, for desktop, cloud, and mobile, mainly developing with VC++ and VC#. He keeps a blog at http://www.mariusbancila.ro/blog, focused on Windows programming. You can follow Marius on Twitter at @mariusbancila.
Architect
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer Freelance
France France
I am currently the CTO of Metaco, we are leveraging the Bitcoin Blockchain for delivering financial services.

I also developed a tool to make IaaS on Azure more easy to use IaaS Management Studio.

If you want to contact me, go this way Smile | :)
Russian Federation Russian Federation
I am a software developer currently living in Tomsk, Russia. I received a PhD degree in Computer Science from Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2010. I have been professionally developing C/C++ and PHP software since 2005. I like contributing to open-source and writing programming articles for popular web resources, like CodeProject. Besides writing, I love skiing and watching Formula-1.
Software Developer (Senior)
Sweden Sweden
Orjan has worked as a professional developer - in Sweden and England - since 1993, using a range of languages (C++, Pascal, Delphi, C, C#, Visual Basic, Python and assemblers), but tends to return to C++.
Germany Germany
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
President
Canada Canada
Father of two, brother of two, child of two.
Spouse to one, uncle to many, friend to lots.
Farmer, carpenter, mechanic, electrician, but definitely not a plumber.
Likes walks with the wife, board games, card games, travel, and camping in the summer.
High school graduate, college drop-out.
Hobby programmer who knows C++ with MFC and the STL.
Has dabbled with BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, C#, SQL, ASM, and HTML.
Realized long ago that programming is fun when there is nobody pressuring you with schedules and timelines.
United States United States
Today’s smart devices and applications have untapped potential in the realm of context-aware computing. Plantronics is making it possible for its audio devices to deliver contextual information to a range of applications through Plantronics headsets. The Plantronics Spokes SDK allows developers to create a range of business applications that will have the power to change the way we communicate and collaborate.

Please check out our DevZone for more info on the Spokes SDK:
http://developer.plantronics.com/community/devzone
Software Developer (Senior)
India India

Microsoft C# MVP (12-13)



Hey, I am Pranay Rana, working as a Team Leadin MNC. Web development in Asp.Net with C# and MS sql server are the experience tools that I have had for the past 5.5 years now.

For me def. of programming is : Programming is something that you do once and that get used by multiple for many years

You can visit my blog


StackOverFlow - http://stackoverflow.com/users/314488/pranay
My CV :- http://careers.stackoverflow.com/pranayamr

Awards:


United States United States
Prashant Sridharan is a Developer Advocate at Facebook, where he helps developers around the world learn how to build great apps using the Facebook platform. Prior to Facebook, Prashant was the Director of Marketing for Amazon Web Services, the chief Product Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio, a product manager at various startups, and a software developer at Sun Microsystems. He is well past the "yucky" phase with Objective C and LOVES to build iOS apps, adores Ruby on Rails, and spends every moment of his free time either snowboarding or training for snowboarding season.
Chief Technology Officer InductionLabs
India India
Currently I am an independent developer usually develops under brand name Induction games sometimes under Induction labs ,Can say that I am professionally developing apps for more than 4 years .

Some links to my apps in different apps stores are ..


Windows Phone
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/store/publishers?publisherId=InductionGames

Android
1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Induction+Labs&hl=en
2.https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Induction%20Games

Blackberry Store
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/vendor/39848/?lang=en

Flash Games :
http://www.mochigames.com/developer/praveenojha/
*my flash portal is no longer active so the quiz game cant be played .

Perceptual computing phase 1 first prize Winner app (air piano)
http://software.intel.com/sites/campaigns/perceptualshowcase/air-piano.htm

My Blog
http://praveenojha.com
United States United States
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Germany Germany
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Bangladesh Bangladesh
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
Shanan has been developing software professionally since 1994. She has had her hands in all aspects of design and development, from embedded systems to user interfaces and everything in between. She has worked equally across her career in Unix and Windows based systems, and has coded in many different languages. At this point in her career, Shanan is a senior .NET developer.

Outside work, Shanan is a mother of two young kids, and she is a fiction writer. She also plays the flute and the hammered dulcimer.
Mr. Subhendu Sekhar Behera pursued his Bachelor of Technology in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering at National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur, Orissa. . He has also won numerous coding competitions in C/JAVA language pan India. His research interests lie in the field of Pattern Recognition, Soft Computing and Algorithm Design.He has two journal and two conference papers to his credit
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