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Tech Roundup

  1. 2012-08-21
  2. Programming
  3. technology

I’ve been following a few different news sources lately and have found a few good articles and projects I thought I would share.



New ChaiScript Releases

  1. 2012-06-08
  2. C++11
  3. ChaiScript

We are proud to announce two new ChaiScript releases: ChaiScript 4.0.0



C++11: Auto

  1. 2012-02-26
  2. C++
  3. C++11
  4. Programming

We’ve already covered C++11 decltype and why you should start using C++11 features today. Now we will move on to one of the most widely supported C++11 features: the new auto keyword.; auto is supported currently by g++ as of 4.4, clang and msvc since 10. So you are safe using it today if you don’t need to support any older compilers. The auto keyword is used to let the compiler determine the type of a variable. This seemingly simple concept can really help clean up your code in some situations. For example:



Are You Using make_shared Yet?

  1. 2012-02-23
  2. Boost
  3. C++
  4. C++11
  5. Programming

Recently, while watching the GoingNative conference, I learned about the new std::shared_ptr helper function std::make_shared.



Using Non-Standard Resolutions with VirtualBox RDP

  1. 2012-02-21
  2. RDP
  3. VirtualBox
  4. Windows

I like to connect to Virtual Box guest operating systems remotely over RDP connections. This generally works well except if I connect from my 1280x720 laptop to a Windows guest. In this case the Windows guest will tend to resize to a “standard” resolution that fits inside of the 1280x720, which is 800x600.



Trigraphs, Digraphs and Alternative Tokens

  1. 2012-02-13
  2. C++
  3. Programming

Quick, which language is the following code written in?



Start Using C++11 Now

  1. 2012-02-12
  2. C++
  3. C++11
  4. Crossplatform

Every major platform and compiler now supports some aspect of the new C++ standard accepted in 2011. This means it is currently possible to write code that uses some of C++11 while maintaining cross-platform compatibility. Why should you care?



Double vs. Float, Which is Better?

  1. 2012-02-11
  2. C++
  3. Programming

Neither C++ Coding Standards nor Effective C++ addresses the question of which float point type is best to use and in what situations. There are three floating point types in C and C++:



C++11: Decltype

  1. 2011-10-17
  2. C++
  3. C++11
  4. Programming

decltype is a type specifier introduced in C++11. It behaves like a function that evaluates to the type of an object at compile time. This article is helping provide some more background information necessary for the more meatier C++11 articles to come.



C++ Partial Specialization of Templates

  1. 2011-10-16
  2. C++
  3. Programming
  4. Templates

In this article we are going to introduce the concept of C++ Template Partial Specialization. This is meant to be just a primer on the topic and not exhaustive. The examples here will be used and referenced in later articles. A series of discussions about C++11, now that the language has been finalized, will be coming shortly. In C++ a template class such as this: