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 to C++ you can [...]
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() or delete(), it will NOT really release any memory...
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, often referred to by the acronym RAII (or...
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 colleagues while I was still in college. From the...
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, and to quote Jeff Rotschild of Facebook: “the...
"Nobody should tell you what you want to be in life. Stick with your dream and don't let anybody tell you that you can't make that dream happen." I was browsing technorati today when I stumbled upon this blog entry from an aspiring developer in Manila. My heart shrunk after reading...
I've been interviewing lately for developers to fill the 2 open positions in my company and I've just realized an interesting stat inside our development team. A year and a half ago there where: 4 Caucasians, 2 from India, 2 Chinese, 2 Filipino 2 of the 10 Developers are girls. 1 Chinese and...