About code. Mostly on C++
Four years ago I wrote a blog post that shown how to build a web server using the http_listener from the C++ REST SDK library as well as a client application that consumed the exposed resources. Over the years there have been various changes to the API from the library and some readers complained the … Read more
In the previous post, I have shown how you could write a simple Twitter bot using JavaScript and Node.js very quickly. However, I ran the bot on my local machine, which is probably not something that you want to do for a real application. Instead, you’d probably want to host it on a cloud platform. … Read more
I had recently played with the idea of creating a twitter bot, not for any specific reason but to see how hard or easy that would be. And to do something that would put a bit of fun into the experience I decided to make a bot that would create nice tweets with emoji of … Read more
I have been recently asked on my post on the date library if the library has a function for computing the day of the year. It actually does not, although it is fairly simple to compute it. UPDATE: Howard Hinnant has shown in a comment below how to write a day_of_year() function using the date … Read more
You may have multiple versions of the .NET framework installed and used on your machine. The framework has two components: the set of assemblies that provide functionalities for your application, and the common language runtime (CLR) that handles the execution of the application. These two components are versioned separately. If you what to see what … Read more
Firebase is a platform for developing mobile and web application that provides analytics, authentication, real-time databases, notifications, cloud messaging, crash reporting and other services for your application. In this post, I will discuss how to use the Firebase Analytics in Cordova applications for measuring app usage and user engagement. Analytics for Firebase This is a … Read more
I am pleased to announce that my book on modern C++ programming has been published by PacktPub. The book is called Modern C++ Programming Cookbook and can be ordered at packtpub.com and Amazon. The ISBN of the book is 9781786465184. The complete table of contents is available below. The book is organized in recipes, much … Read more
Initialization of variables in C++ can have several forms: default initialization: std::string s; value initialization: std::string s{}; direct initialization: std::string s(“demo”); copy initialization: std::string s = “demo”; list initialization: std::string s{‘d’, ‘e’, ‘m’, ‘o’}; aggregate initialization: char s[5] = {‘d’, ‘e’, ‘m’, ‘o’}; reference initialization: char& c = s[0]; C++11 introduced a generalized syntax for … Read more
In C#, function parameters can be declared with the ref or out modifier, the former indicating that a value is already set and the function can read and write it, and the later that the value is not set and the function must do so before returning. As a side note, there is a good … Read more