Best C++ Article of January 2017

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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

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Combinatorial Explosion - A Cautionary Tale

22 Jan 2017marcus obrien

My experience of the disastrous effects of a bad OO design, in particular, what happens when combinatorial explosion arrives knocking on the door

C++

Design

The Secrets of Google Chrome Credentials

30 Jan 2017Michael Haephrati

Chrome stores all passwords and other credentials in an encrypted database but guess what: they can be retrieved by anyone with the proper knowledge. This article will show you how.

Implementing a Universal Turing Machine With Only mov Instructions

5 Feb 2017Gregory Morse

UTM based on mov is Turing-complete paper x86 and x86-64

Take a REST : A Windows C++ Library for Quick Web Interfaces Interaction

30 May 2019Michael Chourdakis

A few functions and you can call various Web libraries like Google Drive

C++

Win64

Win32

The Secrets of Firefox Credentials

30 Jan 2017Michael Haephrati

Way to fetch stored credentials in more recent versions of Firefox

C++

Windows

Firefox

C++ State Machine with Asynchronous Multicast Delegates

23 Oct 2019David Lafreniere

A framework combining state machines with asynchronous multicast delegates

RPI3 B+ - Adventures in Pi-land part 3 (Updated Supports Pi1 & 2)

18 Jan 2017leon de boer

Third in the series of frustrations and adventures with the Raspberry Pi

ASM

Raspberry-Pi

The Secrets of Internet Explorer Credentials

30 Jan 2017Michael Haephrati

Third of several articles covering the secrets of obtaining stored (and encrypted) credentials stored by browsers

KmTest: Kernel-mode C++ Unit Testing Framework in BDD-style

18 Jan 2017Sergey Podobry

How-to guide about using KmTest for writing kernel-mode unit tests

The Secrets of Wi-Fi Credentials

9 Jan 2017Michael Haephrati

How to fetch and decrypt Wi-Fi stored credentials

Function Plotter, Playing with design patterns

16 Mar 2017Hamidreza Ebtehaj

Designing the simplest function evaluator

Overriding Virtual Functions, a Comparison Between C#, C++ and Java

20 Jan 2017marcus obrien

This article compares the OO features of inheritance and function overriding in C++, C# and Java.

Const and ReadOnly in Java, C# and C++

14 Jan 2017marcus obrien

A continuation of my comparison series of articles, today I am going to compare how the big 3 OO languages implement const and read only variables.

Java

C++

Metamorphic engines

22 Jan 2017Kewin Rausch

How an application performs metamorphism to adapt and survive in an "hostile" environment.

ASM

Dev

x86

WinHexView

4 Jan 201723ars

A tool that I wrote some time ago called WinHexView which I used it for displaying file's content in different format like hexadecimal, decimal or octal

C++

Windows

command-line

C# Virtual Functions coming from C++ Warning !!

4 Jan 2017marcus obrien

When trying to move into C# from C++, a little explanation of how functions can be overridden, and some of the pitfalls you may encounter.

C++

.NET

Dev

GCC Cross Compiler Setup in Windows

17 Jan 2017Arun Maiya

How to setup GCC cross compiler in Windows to generate Linux binaries

Boost Concurrent Permutations and Combinations on CPU

5 Apr 2017Shao Voon Wong

Compute Concurrent Permutations and Combinations on CPU

C++11

C++

VS2013

Understanding C/C++ Type Declaration

28 Jan 2017Shao Voon Wong

C/C++ type declaration

C++

Error logging in ASP.NET Core MVC (similar to ELMAH) for .Net Core 1.0

9 Jan 2017Sem Shekhovtsov

This article describes how to integrate simple error logger for .Net Core MVC 1.0 web project.

C++: INI File Parser Generator

17 Jan 2017Shao Voon Wong

Generate a validating INI parser based on schema with file save capability. User types supported out of the box!

C++

VS2013

Current Participants

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

23ars

Engineer

Romania

I'm a software engineer and I have 3 years experience in software development. I worked for one year as Java Developer and now I'm working as embedded C software developer in automotive domain. I like a lot embedded software development and I'm passionate about Linux.

Arun Maiya

Software Developer (Senior)

India

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

David Lafreniere

United States

I've been a professional software engineer for over 20 years. When not writing code, I enjoy spending time with the family, camping and riding motorcycles around Southern California.

Gregory Morse

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

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

Hamidreza Ebtehaj

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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

Kewin Rausch

Software Developer

Italy

I'm a Software Engineer with deep and extended knowledge in Computer Networks and low level environments as kernels and drivers. My core competencies are C/C++ and Assembly programming languages, in both user- and kernel-space, together with an problem-solving oriented mindset and huge imagination to develop alternative approach to deal with them.

leon de boer

Software Developer

Australia

Experience hardware/software design engineer with specialization in the field of embedded controllers and software. Software credits include Free Pascal development RTL, Cipher Multitask engraving software and Symmetry Laser/Cutting software. Firmware/hardware credits include Cipher CNC controllers series 1-3, Vision series 1 engraver controller and I-Marc pet tagger controller.

It is about now you realize you have been doing this for far too long Smile | :)

contact: ldeboer@gateway.net.au

marcus obrien

Technical Lead

Canada

I have a blog here

http://www.electricalengineeringschools.org/blog/

And my robotics web site is here :

http://www.roboticsfordreamers.com/

I have been a software engineer for over 20 years now. I'm an expert in writing scalable restful web API services, which I've been doing for over 7 years now for games companies such as EA and Ubisoft. I've also worked on several video games, including Skate 2 and 3, NHL, Need for Speed, various Assassins Creed games, Far Cry 3 and 4, Driver San Francisco and most recently with a team of 15 on EA's UFC free to play. On this latest project I designed, implemented, tested (including load tests in Gatling and JUnit on AWS), deployed and supported all the web services for the game client, supporting up to a half a million active sessions.

I am proficient at programming in C, C++, C#, Java etc. I've developed many types of games, applications, SDKs and web services in Linux, Unix, iOS, Android and Windows.

My spare time is spent teaching and lecturing computing languages and science. I have a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (specialising in knowledge representation - Semantic networks with inference engines).

Currently I am also building an A.I. general purpose robot. The brains behind it are a mix of 6 Raspberry Pi and Banana Pros, with 2 USB cameras, SATA drive, Router Switch with inter-pi Comms, 2 motorised track systems, plus various sensors including motion/pir/sound etc.

The six pi's are split according to functions, including eyes (image processing/recognition), ears (speech processing and simulated speech),motor (object avoidance, environment mapping, drives all movement), entertainment (web browsing, media playing etc), brain (knowledge system, and adaptive learning/memory systems) and development system ( logging, diagnostics, debugging).

I am available as a consultant, so if you need to get something out the door quick, or want to set down an expandable and resilient framework, ping me !

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

Michael Haephrati

CEO Secured Globe, Inc.

United States

Michael Haephrati is a music composer, an inventor and an expert specializes in software development and information security, who has built a unique perspective which combines technology and the end user experience. He is the author of a the book Learning C++ , which teaches C++ 20, and was published in August 2022.

He is the CEO of Secured Globe, Inc., and also active at Stack Overflow.

Read our Corporate blog or read my Personal blog.

Follow @haephrati

Sem Shekhovtsov

Software Developer (Senior)

Ukraine

Individual software developer, good experience with PHP, Java, .Net, NodeJs, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, LESS, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, CoffeeScript, ExtJS, Backbone, AngularJS, AJAX, Amazon s3 services, Azure. Programming is not just my work, but more like a hobby. I'm glad to learn new pattern and technologies, making research and study new things. I work remotely for couple of years. More than nine years I'm writing commercial projects.

Sergey Podobry

Team Leader Apriorit

Ukraine

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

Shao Voon Wong

Software Developer (Senior)

Singapore

Shao Voon is from Singapore. His interest lies primarily in computer graphics, software optimization, concurrency, security, and Agile methodologies. His hobby is writing a free C++/DirectX photo slideshow application which can be viewed here.

First Prize	Michael Haephrati - The Secrets of Wi-Fi Credentials
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject


Second Prize	Michael Chourdakis - Take a REST : A Windows C++ Library for Quick Web Interfaces Interaction
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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