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Best C++ Article of November 2014

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

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Current Entries

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6 Nov 2014Orjan Westin
Simplifying the use of dynamically sized C structs
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12 Nov 2014Lộc Nguyễn
Top-down parsing
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4 Nov 2014Faye Williams
What does the preprocessor do?
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6 Nov 2014Stephen C Young
Functional Programming
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27 Nov 2014Abdallah Al-Dalleh
How to handle post data coming inside an HTTP POST request
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6 Nov 2014Stephen C Young
Google I/O 2014 Recap for web developers
6 Nov 2014Michael Coppock
Herein is the story of how the team at Codemasters optimized GRID Autosport for tablets.
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2 Nov 2014Faye Williams
Polymorphism and overloading in C++
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9 Nov 2014Mahsa Hassankashi
If you know C# or VB you are ready to learn desirable and Simple way for monitoring your environmental condition (measure temperature, humidity, GPS coordinate position, vibration) and set alarms (turn on or blinking LED, buzzer and etc) by installing NET Micro Framework and buy compatible board (F
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20 Feb 2024Ștefan-Mihai MOGA
A look at the URLDownloadToFile function and architecture of IntelliLink
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7 Nov 2014Ullas_Krishnan
This is only for students who are developing mini projects with Turbo C / C++ Compiler. This example may help you to get an idea in submitting your mini projects with stunning user interface experience with Mouse click events.
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14 Nov 2014Francis Xavier Pulikotil
A switch-like construct for custom objects to improve readability.
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11 Nov 2014Mario Mulansky
Using Boost.odeint together with Boost.SIMD to gain a factor three performance improvements.
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2 Dec 2014PJ Arends
A CTreeCtrl derived control that has four checkbox states
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19 Feb 2015Michael Chourdakis
One-call of any DLL function with custom parameters, implemented with C++ tuple and templates.
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27 Dec 2016RIOT Community
Using and Developing with RIOT
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13 Feb 2019Michael Chourdakis
A flexible memory sharing class across processes and threads with locking support
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4 Nov 2014biicode
Let me use your functionality without using your design.
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20 Nov 2014Vadim Stadnik
Generality and efficiency of a semigroup in C++ are achieved by using an augmented B+ tree. Basic and advanced applications of such a semigroup are discussed.
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5 Dec 2014PJ Arends
A small command line utility to convert a binary file to hex encoded text file
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3 Nov 2014Ciro Sisman Pereira
tCNode template: An indexed multi-node data tree using STL containers
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5 Nov 2014Whay Kay Pee
How to embed LibCurl to create a download manager.
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5 Nov 2014Víctor Sumozas
CSS divide page into sections
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12 Apr 2015Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
New developers and the importance of C; this blog post is about my opinion and views about C programming language's importance for beginners in programming. Yours might be different!
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19 Nov 2014KarstenK
How to start in Metal on iOS.
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25 Nov 2014Faye Williams
Friend functions and classes in C++
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5 Dec 2014KarstenK
Interoperability: Calling C++ from C#
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3 Nov 2014Ullas_Krishnan
How create a Splash Screen in C++ Program (TurboC) in DOS Mode..
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17 Nov 2014#realJSOP
How to fix this ANNOYING problem

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Software Developer (Senior) Paddedwall Software
United States United States
I've been paid as a programmer since 1982 with experience in Pascal, and C++ (both self-taught), and began writing Windows programs in 1991 using Visual C++ and MFC. In the 2nd half of 2007, I started writing C# Windows Forms and ASP.Net applications, and have since done WPF, Silverlight, WCF, web services, and Windows services.

My weakest point is that my moments of clarity are too brief to hold a meaningful conversation that requires more than 30 seconds to complete. Thankfully, grunts of agreement are all that is required to conduct most discussions without committing to any particular belief system.
Engineer
Jordan Jordan
I'm a computer engineer, interested in hardware, software and security.

Always trying to learn new topics, to seek a decent computer engineering career!
Software Developer
Pakistan Pakistan
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a computer programmer from Rabwah, Pakistan, currently living in The Netherlands, likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. Afzaal Ahmad works at Adyen as a Developer Advocate.

He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, four times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field.
Software Developer biicode
Spain Spain
biicode is a C/C++ dependencies manager with a hosting service. For C/C++ developers that think a dependency manager is needed, biicode is a multiplatform tool and hosting service that allows you to build your projects easily, integrate third party code and reuse code among projects with just #includes.
This is a Organisation

3 members
Software Developer (Senior)
Brazil Brazil
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Founder FayeWilliams.com
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Programming shouldn't be a black art. Code is creative and beautiful. I write little programming guides for C, C++, GDB and Linux.

FayeWilliams.com
Software Developer
United States United States
Besides loving spending time with family, Francis Xavier likes to watch sci-fi/fantasy/action/drama movies, listen to music, and play video-games. After being exposed to a few video-games, he developed an interest in computer programming. He currently holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Applications.
Software Developer
Germany Germany
I am living in germany and now living from programming for some Years. In my spare time I like sports as jogging, playing football (soccer) and basketball.

We must take care for our planet, because we and our family has no other. And everybody has to do something for it.
Software Developer
United States United States
while (live) {
try {
learn();
code();
food();
...
} catch (Exception ex) {
recover();
}
}
Doctorandin Technische Universität Berlin
Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of)
I have been working with different technologies and data more than 10 years.
I`d like to challenge with complex problem, then make it easy for using everyone. This is the best joy.

ICT Master in Norway 2013
Doctorandin at Technische Universität Berlin in Data Scientist ( currently )
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Diamond is nothing except the pieces of the coal which have continued their activities finally they have become Diamond.

http://www.repocomp.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.
Software Developer
Greece Greece
I'm working in C++, PHP , Java, Windows, iOS, Android and Web (HTML/Javascript/CSS).

I 've a PhD in Digital Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence and I specialize in Pro Audio and AI applications.

My home page: https://www.turbo-play.com
Canada Canada
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
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++.
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.
Germany Germany
RIOT is the friendly operating system for the Internet of Things (IoT).
It is tailored to networked, memory-constrained IoT devices. RIOT allows
application programming in C and C++, and provides full multithreading
and real-time abilities. It is open-source software, released under the
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
This is a Organisation (No members)

Software Developer NXP Semiconductors
Romania Romania
My professional background includes knowledge of analyst programmer for Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual Basic, Sun Java, assembly for Intel 80x86 microprocessors, assembly for PIC microcontrollers (produced by Microchip Inc.), relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), concurrent version systems, bug tracking systems, web design (HTML5, CSS3, XML, PHP/MySQL, JavaScript).
Architect Allan Gray
South Africa South Africa
Since I was young I always preferred teaching myself to learning from a structured syllabus.

This didn’t always make me popular with my teachers. I guess sleeping through the whole of Romeo and Juliet in an English class doesn’t make a great impression. On the other hand I formed an obsession with always researching something.

Over the years these obsessions would jump from topic to topic ranging from physics to lean manufacturing. Photography to functional programming. Cognition to physiology and strength training. Kitesurfing to fire poi. My obsessions may be random but are always led by my curiosity.

Over time I noticed that I was forming connections and finding patterns in unrelated fields and using knowledge I gained from studying the rudiments of things like cognitive psychology when trying to figure out why I was seeing certain behaviours in the teams I was working in.

I'm interested in communicating those underlying principles and connections in a way that is useful to others.

I have been working as a programmer, architect and manager for the last 12 years so there is a strong bias to helping junior programmers and software development teams improve.

I focus on underlying principles and not technologies.
India India
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
Vadim Stadnik has many years of experience of the development of innovative software products. He is the author of the book “Practical Algorithms on Large Datasets”, available on Amazon. His interests include computational mathematics, advanced data structures and algorithms, artificial intelligence and scientific programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Spain Spain
My name is Víctor Sumozas. I am an Industrial engineer and passionate exponent and enthusiast in software development and a keen interest in continuing evolution of .Net technologies. Certificated in Developing ASP.NET 4.5 MVC 4 Web Applications.
You can read the original post at Sumozas Null Pointer
Any comment will be highly appreciated. Thanks!
Software Developer Freelance
Indonesia Indonesia
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Contest Entries and Requirements

  1. The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
  2. Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
  3. With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
  4. Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
  5. No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
  6. Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
  7. No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
  8. If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
  9. In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  10. In the event an article has multiple authors and/or contributors, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  11. In the event of a tie,  the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  12. Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
  13. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  14. Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this contest is legal may enter.
  15. Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
  16. By entering the contest you agree to the rules, conditions of entry, and agree that your member alias and any submitted material can be used for promotional purposes by CodeProject.
  17. Entries shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry unless clearly indicated otherwise. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

Eligibility

This competition is open to software development professionals & enthusiasts who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; however, residents of Quebec and of the following countries are ineligible to participate due to legal constraints: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Employees (or a member of their immediate family) of CodeProject or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies are also ineligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.

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Entry is by the submission process described above. Please read the submission requirements before submitting your entry and ensure the article is tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category.

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