When writing code for the Win32 platform, most developers don’t pay attention to selecting a “calling convention”, and in most cases it doesn’t really matter much. But as systems get larger and split into more modules (especially when third-party modules are to be included), this becomes something that cannot really be ignored.

A handful of myths have spawned practices, particularly among bloggers and website owners, that turn copyright law on its head …

According to IWR, ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive.

Have you ever though how much information is there in DMOZ? Your entire life won’t be enough to collect and sort it.

Configuration files are a problem for both operating systems and applications. Where do you keep them, how are they structured?

Google announced yesterday that they have agreements with several large libraries to scan books whose copyrights have expired.

The IMSL C# Numerical Library is the only mathematical and statistical library written in 100% Microsoft Visual C# .NET for complete compatibility and scalability with the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Snowbound Software Releases Robust Option for Windows Platform To Enable Read Functionality for Microsoft Word Files.

Make shared memory work for you, not against you

Well folks, now that we all had a nice holiday season, it is time to get back to business. Some things you can do to give your business a lift and charge into the new year are:

Use your Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal skills and you can get a lot of mileage out of the holiday party.

A Vision

The job given me by the Almighty Programmer was gatekeeper. The clouds parted below me and I could see a long sinewy line of expressions marching toward me in single file. Some looked like dates, others like digits and some (to be honest) looked like gibberish. One by one, they would try to get past me but I know no fear – for I am the RegularExpressionValidator.

This is not a usual tutorial, but more of a “description of events” of the past few days. It began when Microsoft issued this bulletin.

Once you have mastered the C++ language and the standard library, what do you tackle next? The C++ community has plenty to keep you busy for years to come. To start with, you might take a look at the many C++ libraries that extend the standard. Sure, the C++ library has strings, I/O streams, containers, iterators, algorithms, and all that fun stuff. But it lacks much that is commonplace in modern computing: networks, GUIs, concurrency, and so on.

Macromedia’s release of the MX Studio essentially turned their entire web product line inside out and rearranged the molecules. Instead of separate products performing specialized tasks, the tight integration of the tools-Freehand, Flash MX, Fireworks MX, Dreamweaver MX, and ColdFusion MX-means an entirely new, more efficient workflow can develop.

A major workflow change is how objects created in each of the applications move easily between the applications. Dragging and dropping, importing, copying, and pasting between the applications can accomplish this, but one of the more significant aspects of the new workflow is the use of symbols.

This is a cross reference of libraries needed by Skunkware and other binary packages and where to obtain the library or other needed tool. You know you need a library when the program fails to work; sometimes it is friendly enough to tell you what it needs, but sometimes it is not.

Writing articles and submitting them for publication is a very powerful promotion tactic. BUT, this can be taken a step further to put your articles on auto-pilot.

First of all, you need to get a good fr~e autoresponder such as http://www.getresponse.com or http://www.sendfree.com