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Weekly Poll Results
For which consumer gadgets do you currently (or plan to) develop?
Survey period: 30 Aug 2010 to 6 Sep 2010
Half the fun of owning a gadget is bending it to your will.
| Option | Votes | % | ||
| Automotive computers (entertainment, navigation, management etc) | 76 | 16.89 |  | |
| Home theatre PCs | 67 | 14.89 | | |
| Roku | 4 | 0.89 | | |
| Smartphone (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian etc) | 264 | 58.67 | | |
| Sony PS3 | 24 | 5.33 | | |
| TiVo | 2 | 0.44 | | |
| Vudo | 1 | 0.22 | | |
| Wii | 24 | 5.33 | | |
| Xbox | 41 | 9.11 | | |
| Yahoo! Connected TV Widgets | 8 | 1.78 | | |
| Other | 87 | 19.33 | | |
| Responses | 413 | | ||
| Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% | ||||
View optional text answers (106 answers)
This week's survey: What's the best way to make money through programming?
Most popular new articles 30 Aug 2010 - 6 Sep 2010
- The Super Pool Framework - Deyan Timnev
- .NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension) - Shivprasad koirala
- Single Sign On (SSO) for cross-domain Asp.net applications, Part-I - The design blue print - Al-Farooque Shubho
- The Bricks Game - Tetris for Silverlight - Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
- A Silverlight Expense Report Module using View Model (MVVM) - defwebserver
Latest Additions
200 articles overall 165 new, 81 updated, 0 moved. 10 were edited, 190 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added Last week
C / C++ Language
- Change WINVER - Roger65
How to change #define WINVER 0x0502 to 0x0601
C++, Win7, MFC, VS2010, Dev
Algorithms & Recipes
- RLE compression for bitmaps - Jan Mojzis
RLE compression for bitmaps (Unedited)
C++
Articles updated added Last week
C / C++ Language
- Best Square Root Method - Algorithm - Function (Precision VS Speed) - Mahmoud Hesham El-Magdoub
Square Root Methods Fast Algorithm Speed Precision computational Quake3 Fast Square Root Function Fast Gaming (Unedited)
C++ - Concurrency Runtime in Visual C++ 2010 - Ajay Vijayvargiya
Learn about parallel algorithms, parallel containers, tasks, task groups, agents library, task scheduler etc in VC10 (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Win32, Win64, STL, VS2010, Architect, Dev
.NET Framework
- Benchmark start-up and system performance for .Net, Mono, Java, C++ and their respective UI - dmihailescu
What is the start-up and system performance overhead for .Net, Mono, Java versus C++ and Forms, WPF, Swing versus MFC (Unedited)
C++ (VC9.0, VC10.0), C# (C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0), Java, Windows (WinXP), .NET (.NET1.1, Mono, .NET3.5, .NET4.0), JavaSE6, Win32, Visual-Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2008, VS2010), MFC, WPF, WinForms, Architect, Dev, Design, Sales, C#3.5, Framework, UI, cross-platform, system, programming, GUI, performance, .NET4
Game Development
- OAG Library (OpenGL) Part 2.2 - Drawing 2D Texts using the mouse and Programatically - Eduardo Tucci
This tutorial shows Library Code for 2D Texts how to draw them programatically using the mouse in an application MFC. (Unedited)
C++ (VC9.0), C, Windows (WinXP, Vista, Win7), OpenGL - OAG Library (OpenGL) Part 2.3 - Drawing 2D Textures using the mouse and Programatically - Eduardo Tucci
This tutorial shows Library Code for 2D Textures how to draw them programatically using the mouse in an application MFC. (Unedited)
C++ (VC9.0), Windows (WinXP, Vista, Win7), OpenGL
Algorithms & Recipes
- Fast and simple huffman compressor - Jan Mojzis
Fast and simple huffman compressor (Unedited)
C++, C
Technical blogs added Last week
Content Management Server
- Active Directory Groups not Syncing with Team Foundation Server 2010 - Martin Hinshelwood
For a little while now I had been investigating an odd occurrence in Team Foundation Server. Users added to Active Directory groups have not been filtering back into the Team Foundation Server groups cache. The meant that we had to add users directly to Team Foundation Server in order to give them p (Unedited)
XML
- Serializing Java objects to XML and back - markFaction
XStream is a very simple and lightweight library that I came across when developing my final year project at University. It can be used for serializing objects into an XML string and vice-versa. XStream also supports JSON output as of … Continue reading → (Unedited)
C++, SQL, Windows, SQL-Server, DBA
MFC
- Visual C++ 2010: What's new for MFC library? - Issam Lahlali
Some years ago I thought that MFC will be obsolete, and no new features will be added, but I was wrong, VS2008 added many features and functionalities, and with VS 2010 I discovered new improvements. So what’s new in MFC 10? to answer to this question I tried to compare the two versions MFC 9 (Unedited)
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Chris Maunder
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