C Preprocessor Trick For Implementing Similar Data Types

“The trick was developed in HiBase by Kenneth Oksanen, who (…) based it on similar constructs used in GCC, but developed and refined the idea further.” [1] [1] http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/cpp-trick.html

August 20, 2012

simple c++ client/server encryption corba example

hey folks, my students are running crazy they have to understand corba, based on this great example [1]. but they fail on using orbacus [2] and/or omniorb. so i have to help them. first of all i want to make one thing clear: i don’t want to implement this stuff on windows. two years ago i made it, and that should be enough. it is much easier to implement and make it work under linux than with windows!...

March 20, 2012

What's new in C++ 11?

Yesterday, InfoWorld published a interview with Bjarne Stroustrup about the new stuff in C++ 11. He mentioned for example multithreading, lock-free concurrency, improvements in returning large data structures and the range-for loop. The following two questions were also very interesting … InfoWorld: How does C++ compare to languages like Java, C#, or the dynamic scripting languages that are proliferating lately? Stroustrup: I can’t do a detailed comparison, but C++ is more flexible (for good and bad) and tends to perform significantly better, assuming competent developers in all languages compared....

February 25, 2012