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Why do C++ folks make things so complicated?
This morning Miroslav Bajtoš asked “Why do C++ folks make things so complicated?†in response to my article on regular expressions in C++. Other people asked similar questions yesterday. My response has two parts: Why I believe C++ libraries are often complicated.Why I don’t think it has to be that way. Why would someone be using C++ in the first place? Most likely because they need performance or fine-grained control that they cannot get somewhere else. A Ruby programmer...
C++,Complicated,C++ PRogrammer,Design pattern 2011-12-31 15:45:39
Php Class to Retrieve Alexa Rank
Alexa is a service acquired by Amazon which offers a web traffic report for websites. They retrieve the data from toolbar that can be installed in different browsers, centralize the data and display reports to anyone. The most important indicator is the Alexa Rank. It represents the rank of a webpage in a list of all the websites. It’s not the 100% accurate but it gives a good indication.Alexa does not offer any free API to obtain Alexa Rank. However there is a simple method to obtain it ...
PHP,Alexa,Alexa rank,API,Retrieve Alexa rank 2011-10-25 11:28:55
10 Things Beginner Developers Should Know
If you are a novice developer, it might be confusing about where you should start, because the field is broad and provides many options for you. There are so many questions you might ask yourself, such as “What programming language should I learn?†or “Should I also know front-end, or only back-end?†And I am sure there are much more than that. Well, in order for you to be able to start with an advantage against the others, I’ve decided to help you start your ...
Advice,Software developer,Beginner 2011-12-29 01:41:04
List of Web Safe Fonts
Here is the list of websafe fonts that I use in my own personal web development. Websafe (or "web safe", "safe for the web") fonts are supposedly fonts that are common among all versions of Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. Fonts that you expect everyone viewing your webpage to have. Please contact me if you know of any other web-safe fonts that should be added to this list. These font names are in typical font-family CSS format, in other words (first choice font), (second choice fon...
Web,Font,Safe font,Font list,CSS,Font fa 2011-10-01 04:48:03
Windows Security Improvements
Traenk is still upset by his recent dive into Windows security. So much more was promised when the merger of Windows 9x and NT lines was announced, so long ago. I honestly expected better.Long ago, Microsoft announced that it would merge the then NT and Windows 9x lines of products. Wow! That means a file access control system, logging, different accounts and filespaces for accounts! Finally! We would have a secure version of Windows for our homes!And we do hav...
Windows,Security,Improvement,Windows NT 2011-09-02 11:54:50
The Go Pointer Magic
Go is a language with the pointer type, by which we can Pass pointer into a function and update value in-place. Add methods to a struct as (* T) A, which is different from (T) A(). However, the pointer is type-safe in Go, meaning that there are such restrictions of the pointer. Different types of pointers are unconvertible. Pointer type cannot be used for calculation. Pointer types cannot be compared, either == nor !=. No mutual assignment between different pointer-...
Get the 48×48 or 256×256 icon of a file on Windows
Getting the 16×16 and 32×32 icons on Windows is relatively easy and is often as simple as one call to ExtractIconEx. However, getting the extra large (48×48) and jumbo (256×256) icons introduced respectively by XP and Vista is slighly more complex. This is normally done by: Getting the file information, in particular the icon index, for the given file using SHGetFileInfoRetrieving the system image list where all the icons are storedCasting the image list to an IImageList interf...
File icon,File extension,Association,Large icon,Windows 2012-03-23 09:35:17
How does Class box get 1 million users with only 4 people?
"Class box" is an app which helps students create course plan developed by 4 Chinese. This app was created in 2012. They get over 1 million users with only 4 people. How do they make this? The co-founder of "Class box" Tianfang Li explains this on Zhihu. Here is what he said: About millions of users, in the mobile Internet era what we need to do is just find a good entry point, rapid iteration and with a little luck, a small team or even an independent developer can make millions user level prod...
class box,team size,sillicon valley 2013-04-03 08:08:21
Mac shortcut key cheatsheet
More and more people are using Mac computers or switch from Windows or other OS to MacOS, there are lots of shortcut keys which can help improve the work efficiency or ease operations. This post will try to list some commonly used shortcut keys in Mac. But before that, let's first know some common keys on a Mac computer keyboard. There are four major function keys: Command, Control, Option and Shift. Most of the shortcut keys will combine the functional key and other key. Basic Command key is t...
SHORTCUT,SCREENSHOT,COMMAND,SHORTCUT KEY,MACOS 2019-02-05 07:13:06
10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C#
Visual Basic is a better programming language than Visual C#. Who says so? This article! Here are 10 reasons why you should always choose VB over C#. 1 – “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose†This is a quotation from Gertrude Stein’s 1922 play Geography and Plays. However, the poetry wouldn’t work in C#, because – unforgivably – it’s a cASe-SeNSitIvE language. This is madness! Before I start ranting, let me just acknowledge that case-sens...
Visual basci,C#,Advantage,Comparison 2012-03-10 04:24:03
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