- Formatting Your Output with C++ Streams
- Apr 23, 2004
- Writing to text files or to the console in a C++ program? You might need to format some text data, and the C++ streams class includes some handy formatting features that allow you to do great things. Jeff Cogswell shows you how to use it to line up your text columns, right- or left-justify your text, and set the precision of your floating point numbers.
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- Foundation: The Objective-C Standard Library
- Jan 26, 2010
- David Chisnall goes through the most important aspects of the OpenStep Foundation framework.
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- From Mathematics to Generic Programming: An Interview with Alexander Stepanov and Daniel Rose
- Feb 16, 2015
- John Lakos interviews Alexander Stepanov and Daniel Rose, authors of From Mathematics to Generic Programming, on their new book, why it applies to everyday programmers, and their positions on some closely related technical issues — including value semantics, concepts, contracts, and polymorphic memory resources — facing the C++ Standards Committee today.
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- From NeXTSTEP to Cocoa: Erik Buck on the Development of Cocoa and Objective-C
- Jun 5, 2009
- Erik Buck talks with David Chisnall about the history of modern Apple development from it's NeXTSTEP beginnings to Cocoa and Objective-C today.
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- Fun with the Objective-C Runtime
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall takes a look at some of the activities made easy by OS X Leopard's public interfaces to the Objective-C runtime library.
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- GDI+ Graphics Transformation
- Feb 6, 2004
- Learn the basics of transformation, coordinate systems, the role of coordinate systems in the transformation process, and transformation functionality using GDI+ with C#. Find out how to distinguish among global, local, and composite transformations, how to use the Graphics class transformations in applications, and how to translate, scale, shear, and rotate graphics objects.
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- Generic C++ for Networks
- Apr 21, 2006
- Service oriented architectures sound complicated and daunting, but they're not so hard to implement. The concepts involved are actually fairly simple, and this article describes them by using examples drawn from the networking domain. Software consultant Stephen B. Morris describes some of the principles of service orientation in the down-to-earth contexts of C++ and networking.
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- Generic Programming and the C++ Standard Library
- Feb 1, 2002
- One of C++'s most powerful features is its support for generic programming. In this sample chapter, Herb Sutter shows some of the power and flexibility of the C++ standard library.
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- Get Started Using Spring MVC and Hibernate for Your Java EE Applications
- Jun 5, 2012
- Programming expert Jesse Smith shows the easy way to get started with the popular Spring MVC framework with Hibernate. Learn how to build a simple application with a registration page.
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- Get to Know the New C++11 Initialization Forms
- Mar 28, 2012
- Initializing your objects, arrays, and containers is much easier in C++11 than it used to be in C++03. Danny Kalev explains how to use the new brace-initialization notation, class member initializers, and initialization lists to write better and shorter code, without compromising code safety or efficiency.
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- Getting Started in Objective-C: Your First Program (LiveLessons Video)
- May 26, 2009
- Stephen Kochran guides you through the process of creating your first Objective-C program in this training video.
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- Getting Started: The Basic Elements of C++
- May 20, 2005
- This chapter introduces you to the basics of C++, giving you enough explanation for you to compile and execute a simple C++ program. Topics covered include defining a main function, defining variables, and an introduction to C++ classes.
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- Giving Closure to C
- Jan 24, 2011
- Closures are often regarded as one of the defining features of high-level languages. David Chisnall examines attempts to add them to a low-level language: C.
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- Going Large-Scale with C++, Part 1: Successful Small Projects Will Often Grow
- Dec 17, 2015
- A single-purpose application with efficient, error-free code is a beautiful dream. In the real world, however, software is typically created by groups working with nearly impossible challenges against tight deadlines. Must successful small programs inevitably become unwieldy behemoths? In this two-part series, John Lakos, author of Large-Scale C++ LiveLessons (Workshop): Applied Hierarchical Reuse Using Bloomberg's Foundation Libraries, explains why large development efforts are fundamentally different from small ones, and explores methodologies for meeting this scalability challenge.
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- Going Large-Scale with C++, Part 2: Maximizing Returns on Scale with Hierarchical Reuse
- Dec 17, 2015
- John Lakos, author of Large-Scale C++ LiveLessons (Workshop): Applied Hierarchical Reuse Using Bloomberg's Foundation Libraries, concludes his two-part series by discussing how hierarchical reuse avoids common pitfalls of large development projects and takes advantage of economies of scale.
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- Grady Booch on Developing the Handbook of Software Architecture
- Jan 13, 2006
- Grady Booch discusses his current project: creating a handbook of software architecture patterns and their context.
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- Hands-On Objective-C 2.0: Blocks
- Jul 27, 2010
- This chapter is an introduction to blocks, an Apple-added extension to C, Objective-C 2.0, and C++. It also explores some pitfalls that can befall an unwary user of blocks.
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- Hello, ATL Server: A Modern C++ Web Platform
- Sep 29, 2006
- ATL Server is an extension of ATL that enables you to write ISAPI applications and bring your C++ skills to the World Wide Web. Learn how ATL Server works in this sample chapter.
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- Helping the Development Team Learn More About the Business
- Aug 18, 2009
- Your software development team might be brilliant at testing and coding, but the team can support your business much better with software if they know that business inside and out. Lisa Crispin shows how the effort can pay off.
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- High-Performance Applications with C++: Video Podcast Transcript
- Apr 17, 2009
- Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter talk about the measure of a quality programming language
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