About code. Mostly on C++
C++11 added a date and time utility library called chrono, available in namespace std::chrono and header <chrono>. The problem with it is that the library is a general purpose one and therefore lacks many useful features, such as working with dates, weeks, calendars, timezones and other related features. Fortunately, a rich date and time library … Read more
In the previous post I have compared two alternative ways of transforming a string to upper case, both using std::transform: one that modifies an existing string and one that generates a new one by inserting at the end using std::back_inserter. For the second alternative I have presented two implementations, one that does an initial reservation … Read more
UPDATE: For an update on the implementation and the conclusions see A comparison of two std::transform alternatives revisited. I was writing a small utility function to transform a string to uppercase. The obvious solution for that is std::transform, but as I was writing it I realized there are several alternatives: transform an existing string, by … Read more
Last week I have attended ITCamp in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The conference has already established itself as the most important community-driven technology conference in Romania and lately, as the organizers put it, its focus has shifted from being a Microsoft-centric conference to a technology-centric conference. And this year it has been larger than ever before: 600 … Read more
The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF for short) is an open source framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in other applications. The base implementation is targeting C/C++ applications but ports for other languages exist (these include Java, C#, Delphi, Python). The nightly builds (for various systems and platforms) of CEF are available for download at https://cefbuilds.com/. These … Read more
C++17 was supposed to be a major update of the C++ ISO standard. After the Jacksonville meeting (29.02 – 05.03) it looks like it’s rather going to be a major disappointment. I’m not trying to downplay the things that have been voted into the C++17 standard so far, but all major features we hoped for … Read more
The C# Interactive window has been made available again in Visual Studio with the first update to 2015, this time as a REPL window. You can type or paste and execute C# code, and it includes support for adding references to external DLLs and using namespaces. The window is intended for rapid prototyping C# code. … Read more
I am building a hybrid mobile app with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova that is able to make phone calls, send text message or emails, view a location on a map, etc. These are all handled with external applications (for instance use Gmail to send an email or Maps to pinpoint a location). They … Read more
Visual Studio 2015 comes with many new features and improvements in the IDE, the debugger or language compilers. Obviously, there are more than three things I like in the new IDE, but three things have caught my attention from the very beginning. The Error Window One of the things that bothered me the most about … Read more
I have tried to assemble together information about the Visual C++ releases, the compiler and the frameworks (MFC and ATL). You can find these on many places, but it is often incomplete or focused on something particular (Visual Studio, C++ compiler, framework, etc.). The table below is the result of this effort. It is incomplete … Read more