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For most of the later part of January and almost the whole of February I’ve been pre-occupied with some of my consulting work. There were some huge news that I wanted to share but didn’t find the time to share with the world through my blog...

Published 02-25-2010 8:17 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: updates

Clang Almost Ready for Boost!

One of the cooler projects I believe out there in the open source world is Clang — a ground-up implementation of a C/C++ front-end for LLVM. Thanks to a status message by Joel Falcou I looked at the cfe-dev mailing list archive and found this: I...

Published 01-13-2010 7:55 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: thoughts, community, cool stuff

Advantages of C over C++?!

Just after writing a piece about how C++ can be faster than C, I run into this article that speaks about how C is better than C++. Adam Smith writes: It has been claimed that C++ is a better C them [sic] C. this is being taken to mean that when switching...

Published 01-09-2010 12:24 PM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: thoughts, insights, review, rant

Boost.Spirit v2.x Versus C’s ‘atoi’

Alex Ott wrote a fascinating blog post about Boost.Spirit v2.x’s integer parser performance compared to standard C’s ‘atoi’, in one example of how C++ is faster than C in some cases. He writes: I did very primitive test of performance...

Published 01-08-2010 3:26 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: c++0x, boost, experiment, cool stuff

Free/Delete Not Returning Memory To OS?

As I do keep tabs on what’s going on with C++ around the web, I chanced upon this short and succinct article about ‘free’ and ‘delete’ not returning memory to the OS from Thought Garage which starts with: When you call free...

Published 01-05-2010 11:14 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: insights, boost, tips, cool stuff

Techniques and Realizations

After a considerably long break during the holiday season of 2009, I got back into the development mood in the beginning of 2010. After implementing HTTPS support in the development version of cpp-netlib towards the end of the year, I then moved on to...

Published 01-05-2010 4:06 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: project, library, tips

RAII is not Clear?

One of the more basic and fundamental idioms of C++ programming is that of RAII. It’s so simple and fundamental that C++ seems to be the only programming language that supports this idiom. From Wikipedia, RAII is: Resource Acquisition Is Initialization...

Published 01-03-2010 8:44 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: community, insights, tips

Python in C++

Sometimes you want to be able to write applications in C++ and expose a way of easily extending it by offering a scripting interface embedded to your application. Why re-invent the wheel when you can embed existing programming languages like Python into...

Published 01-03-2010 6:21 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: community, library, tips, cool stuff

Is Your C++ Standards Compliant?

I chanced upon this article that gives a take on the coding guidelines that popular projects post for code portability. In particular, jasper22 says: This document is quite a briefed [sic] guide to check whether your coding practices in C++ are standard...

Published 12-29-2009 1:14 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: thoughts, community

Living in a Parallel World

While catching up on my C++ reading, I chanced upon this article from Intel Software Network by Dr. *** Brown of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota which is basically pointing out the writing on the wall which I’ve already pointed out to...

Published 12-28-2009 6:22 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: parallel, insights, c++0x

C++ Instead of PHP for the Web?

I ran into this interesting article from Wt which reads: As they only say that “the bulk” is running PHP (edit: for those of you to lazy to read about the Facebook architecture [1], that is solely Apache/PHP, no database, no memcache...

Published 12-27-2009 9:37 PM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: insights, project, library

Updating the Look and Feel, More Content Coming

I’m now back from an extended holiday break and am getting back on the more active blogging course. My previous engagement with a full-time client has ended and I now have more time to concentrate on three things that I absolutely love and am passionate...

Published 12-27-2009 11:49 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: community, updates, announcement

The C++ Network Library Now on Github

After a long couple of days working on some requirements of one of my consulting projects and optimizing my workflow, I’ve moved forward with moving the development of The C++ Network Library to Github. In the span of a few days, I’ve managed...

Published 12-13-2009 7:06 PM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: project, library, boost

Moving to Github

So after years of loyalty to Sourceforge on some of my open source projects, I’ve elected to move two of my current C++ projects to Github. Starting today the memcachepp client will be developed almost actively on Github, and soon the cpp-netlib...

Published 12-10-2009 4:05 PM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: community, library, updates, announcement

Programming on a Netbook

So recently I’ve been doing more and more open source C++ development over at cpp-netlib cleaning up the implementation of a simple URI library for the release of version 0.4. I still haven’t gotten myself that MacBook Pro that I’ve...

Published 11-30-2009 6:07 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: library, boost, experiment

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