General Development Archive

ActiveWin features a review of Visual Studio .NET 2003 development suite. They cover feature-set, usage, installation, pricing and what's still missing.

In this first installment in a series of excerpts from 'Practical Unix & Internet Security', 3rd Edition, you'll find tips and general design principles to code by that will help you avoid security-related bugs.

Andrei Alexandrescu discusses smart pointers, from their simplest aspects to their most complex ones and from the most obvious errors in implementing them to the subtlest ones -- some of which also happen to be the most gruesome. Also, learn how to throw an exception, how to associate handlers, or catch clauses, with a set of program statements using a try block, and how exceptions are handled by catch clauses, exception specifications, and design considerations for programs that use exceptions.

InformIT has a series of articles about C++, including a long introduction to C++ for new programmers and a Templates and Inheritance interaction article.

Three new interesting InformIT developer articles posted: "J2EE Performance Tuning, Part 2" (Part I here), "C# Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern" (Part 4) and "Object-Oriented Frameworks for Network Programming".

Kondra Systems, just released a powerful virtual machine and C runtime combination that offers pre-emptive threads, virtual filesystem, floating point emulation, dynamic linker/loader, and true binary compatibility across all platforms in a 64k package.