mikhailberis : tips

Different Forms of Polymorphism

C++ Soup! — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:54:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Using Generic Programming in cpp-netlib

C++ Soup! — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:15:10 GMT

I wanted to write about this yesterday but I was dealing with the end-of-week correspondence and some phone calls I had to take. Somehow yesterday I wasn’t feeling up to it, so today I spent some time with cpp-netlib development and refactored an...(read more)

My Development Environment

C++ Soup! — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:17:48 GMT

Some people have asked me about what my actual C++ development environment looks like. I’ve put off writing this post because I’ve mainly been concentrating on implementing the asynchronous server template in cpp-netlib (to be released in...(read more)

Free/Delete Not Returning Memory To OS?

C++ Soup! — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:14:35 GMT

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...(read more)

Techniques and Realizations

C++ Soup! — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:06:14 GMT

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...(read more)

RAII is not Clear?

C++ Soup! — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:44:26 GMT

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...(read more)

Python in C++

C++ Soup! — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:21:12 GMT

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...(read more)