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So I've left one hanging promise at least fall off my radar -- a manual vtable based implementation of the concept-based polymorphism implementation. As you all have known for a while now I've been working at Google Australia for two years now...

In the previous post I teased a little about vtables, how they work, and whether people were familiar with them. Before I go into detail into that I'd like to rehash the notion of polymorphism first. It may be obvious already to OOP programmers or...

I have a personal theory that the fundamental source of bugs in most software is the impedance mismatch between the notion of design and computation. We as software engineers are torn pulled in usually two seemingly different dimensions -- that of elegance...

This is the final part of the series on the HTTP API Plans. The previous two posts shed light on the history and the current issues with cpp-netlib's implementation and why we'd like to make changes to the client and server API now. In this post...

With Glyn's work on the URI proposal the C++ Network Library project has been moving forward onto bigger goals. One of these goals is the overhaul and update of the library to use more C++11 features and to update the HTTP client and server implementations...

It's just a few weeks away and the ISO C++ Committee will be meeting again this time in Portland, Oregon. If you're interested in the agenda, you can find it from the official Post-Kona Mailing ( N3373 ). Just like the previous meeting the committee...

I've been a Windows Phone 7.5 user since January and I love the different phone UI (doesn't look like iOS, nor does it look like Android) and the Facebook/Twitter integration. It's also good that the Windows Phone 7.5 OS feels smooth even...

Beach, laptop, flip-flops, and C++. Kona, Hawai'i. It took a while for me to get to writing up my experiences on the first ever ISO C++ Committee meeting that I attended in Kona, Hawai'i. There are around 70 attendees and I'm one of the few...