Best C++ Article of July 2016

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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.

Check out the submission guidelines for information on posting articles.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

27 Jul 2016raddevus

Steps for building a device you can add to your existing garage door, which implements an atmega328, bluetooth (hc-05) and relay module which will allow you to open your garage door from any paired Android device.

Java

Android

Bluetooth

Console Output, General For All Executables

19 Jul 2016Christian Koberg

Console output, general applicable to all executables on a Windows system

Sketch framework and Class Library - Part 1

2 Aug 2016RogerCreagh

A standard interface for multiple Arduino boards with different firmware

C++

Arduino

Dev

Having Fun With HTML 5 History API – Part Three

22 Jul 2016Andrei Ion Rînea

Having fun with HTML 5 history API - Part 3

Apex memmove - the fastest memcpy/memmove on x86/x64 ... EVER, written in C

5 Jul 2016T. Herselman

2 years ago I went OCD on memcpy/memmove; and wrote over 140 variations (80,000 lines of code) of memmove; testing, disassembling, optimizing and benchmarking them on multiple machines. I never released the article or the code; until now! So I need to do it before I loose my mind!

Calculating True North for IoT Applications

11 Aug 2016CoderGirl42

Finding true North using GPS and a compass with Raspberry Pi.

Streaming with C++ is brilliant

21 Feb 2018Christian Koberg

The basics, snares, pitfalls and the bright side of C++ streaming standard.

HTML

C++

C++ 11 S/MIME: A Simple MIME Parser and Builder with Security Features

3 Sep 2018Michael Chourdakis

Easy to use simple parser with S/MIME Support. Version 2.

Adding the Missing Real Time Clock to Windows IoT on Raspberry Pi

20 Jul 2016Joel Ivory Johnson

Windows IoT on Raspberry Pi doesn't yet have native support for a hardware real time clock. I've created a solution for getting Windows IoT to initialize its clock from RTC at bootup so that other solutions don't need to be modified to read from the RTC directly.

Sparsely Documented Cause of Compiler Error C2143

17 Jul 2016David A. Gray

Sparsely documented cause of compiler error C2143

Integer math: beyond the limits

6 Jul 2016Victor Soldatov

A coarse approach to operate huge integers.

Responsive GUI Application Tricks

29 Jul 2016PawelBujak

How to avoid blocking long operations in GUI applications, that lead to hung state.

Singular vs. Plural in Item Counts

25 Jul 2016David Wincelberg

A simple way to display "item" or "items" instead of "item(s)"

Current Participants

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

Andrei Ion Rînea

Software Developer (Senior) IBM, Business Analytics

Romania

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Christian Koberg

Austria

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

CoderGirl42

Software Developer GalacticSoft

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

David A. Gray

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I deliver robust, clean, adaptable, future-ready applications that are properly documented for users and maintainers. I have deep knowledge in multiple technologies and broad familiarity with computer and software technologies of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

While it isn't perceived as sexy, my focus has always been the back end of the application stack, where data arrives from a multitude of sources, and is converted into reports that express my interpretation of The Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting, and are the most visible aspect of the system to senior executives who approve the projects and sign the checks.

While I can design a front end, I prefer to work at the back end, getting data into the system from outside sources, such as other computers, electronic sensors, and so forth, and getting it out of the system, as reports to IDENTIFY and SOLVE problems.

When presented with a problem, I focus on identifying and solving the root problem for the long term.

Specialties: Design: Relational data base design, focusing on reporting; organization and presentation of large document collections such as MSDS libraries

Development: Powerful, imaginative utility programs and scripts for automated systems management and maintenance

Industries: Property management, Employee Health and Safety, Services

Languages: C#, C++, C, Python, VBA, Visual Basic, Perl, WinBatch, SQL, XML, HTML, Javascript

Outside Interests: Great music (mostly, but by no means limited to, classical), viewing and photographing sunsets and clouds, traveling by car on small country roads, attending museum exhibits (fine art, history, science, technology), long walks, especially where there is little or no motor traffic, reading, especially nonfiction and thoughtfully written, thought provoking science fiction

David Wincelberg

United States

While working as an engineer, I occasionally applied my problem-solving skills to software problems. For example, I noticed that numbers in increasing filenames did not always increase. I tinkered with solutions and subsequently wrote an article that was published in Dr. Dobb’s Journal.

After that job fizzled, I switched to programming full time and have applied my programming skills to multimedia education, web-based games of skill, legal-compliance and ethics-training courses, a portable PET scanner, and shareware programs.

Joel Ivory Johnson

Software Developer

United States

I attended Southern Polytechnic State University and earned a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and later returned to earn a Masters of Science in Software Engineering. I've largely developed solutions that are based on a mix of Microsoft technologies with open source technologies mixed in. I've got an interest in astronomy and you'll see that interest overflow into some of my code project articles from time to time.

J2i.net

Twitter:@j2inet

Instagram: j2inet

Michael Chourdakis

Software Developer

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

PawelBujak

Poland

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

raddevus

Software Developer (Senior) RADDev Publishing

United States

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

RogerCreagh

Technical Lead Plymouth University

United Kingdom

Engineering career - originally precision mechanical, then electronic, then computer, then telecommuncations, then marketing, then software and everything else involved in specifying, designing, developing and implementing small systems using hardware, firmware and software.

Expertise in various tools and languages over the years as fashions and requirements shifted. Moved from screwdrivers and soldering irons into 8080 and 6502 machine code and thence to many high level languages.

Currently mostly in a .NET standalone windows and web application environment with SQL server but also using LAMP environment when appropriate.

Retiring soon, but always open for interesting projects that float my old wooden sailing boat.

T. Herselman

South Africa

Love and passion for low level, high performance code! The lower the better! I disassemble everything!
I learnt x86 Assembler in the 90's, after reading the `Zen of Assembly Language` and `Graphics Programmers Black Book` by Michael Abrash.
I also love C & C++, but I'm anti-Modern C++!
(It's hard to clarify what I mean by `anti-Modern C++`! Because I love a lot of things added to C++11! Like nullptr, auto and a few other things)
I hate the abominations called `futures`/`promises`, STL containers, shared_ptr etc.
I've been inspired by the works of John Carmack, Mark J. Kilgard, Michael Abrash, Bob Jenkins and especially Agner Fog!

Victor Soldatov

Engineer

Ukraine

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

First Prize	Christian Koberg - Streaming with C++ is brilliant
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Victor Soldatov - Integer math: beyond the limits
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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