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Weekly Poll Results
Do you have titles in your workplace?
Survey period: 4 Apr 2011 to 11 Apr 2011
Are you a Assistant System Design Engineer, A Senior Developer, or just "part of the team"?
| Option | Votes | % | |
| We have formal, very regulated titles | 192 | 23.41 |  |
| We have titles that suit your position at the current time | 170 | 20.73 | |
| We sometimes, maybe have titles, Sort of. | 204 | 24.88 | |
| No titles. Just jobs to do. | 167 | 20.37 | |
| I'm not working in an office or team setting. | 87 | 10.61 | |
| Total | 820 | 100% | |
This week's survey: How many monitors do you use?
Most popular new articles
4 Apr 2011 - 11 Apr 2011
- The Decorator Pattern - Learning with Shapes - AliAmjad
- Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 1 - asheesh goja
- Win32 Editable TreeView and ListView Merged as One - Eitan Michaelson
- How to make fewer errors at the stage of code writing. Part N2. - Karpov Andrey
- Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 2 - asheesh goja
Latest Additions
128 articles overall 88 new, 75 updated, 1 moved. 40 were edited, 88 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
Tree Controls
- Win32 Editable TreeView and ListView Merged as One - Eitan Michaelson
Custom tree control for Win32.
C++, Windows, Win32, Dev, UI
C / C++ Language
- How to make fewer errors at the stage of code writing. Part N2. - Karpov Andrey
This is the second article on avoiding certain errors at the early stage of C++ code writing. (Unedited)
C++, C, Dev, QA, review, PVS-Studio - Enhanced Transparent Flash Control in C++ - Fred van Lieshout
OLE container implementation for hosting a Flash Player control using C++, with support for calls and callbacks between C++ and Flash ActionScript.
C++, Windows, COM, COM+, Flash, Dev, ActiveX, UI
ATL
- An eXtensible Car Description format with ATL COM - Marcel Lambert
Introduces the XCD format that describes cars as collections grouped by Make and Year, and provides an API ported into a COM library to access the collections.
C++, C#, VB.NET, .NET, ATL, COM, Dev
Algorithms & Recipes
- Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 2 - asheesh goja
'Expert Systems' is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm. (Unedited)
C++, C#, Java, Architect, Dev, AI - Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 3 - asheesh goja
'Expert Systems' is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm. (Unedited)
C++, C#, Java, Architect, Dev, AI - Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 1 - asheesh goja
'Expert Systems' is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm. (Unedited)
C++, C#, Java, Architect, Dev, AI
Macros and Add-ins
- VSDebugHelper - Capture memory snapshot of a debugged process to a file - Igor Okulist
The VsDebugHelper add-in allows to capture a buffer from the program being debugged into a data file and back.
C++, Visual-Studio, Dev
Articles updated
Edit Controls
- CFilterEdit: Use Regular Expressions to Filter Your Input - Ben Hanson
The definitive approach to filtering input text. Includes configurable error display.
C++ (VC7.1), Windows (Win2K, WinXP), Visual-Studio (VS.NET2003), MFC, Dev
Miscellaneous
- A MFC/GDI+ LCD Control - Frédéric Pailloux
Nice 7/16/Matric Segment LCD Control derived from CStatic and using GDI+ library (Unedited)
C++, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Vista, Embedded, Win7), WinMobile (WinMobile6), MFC, GDI+
Applications & Tools
- ToDoList 6.2 Beta Release - A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, MFC, CEO, Architect, DBA, Dev, QA
C / C++ Language
- MSEPX - Microsoft Security Essentials Process Exclusion Utility - twburger
A utility that allows point and click additions to the Microsoft Security Essentials process exclusion list
C++, Windows, Win32, Dev, system, threads
Hardware & System
- How to Prepare a USB Drive for Safe Removal - Uwe_Sieber
Shows the link between a drive letter, its disk number, and the disk's device instance
C++ (VC6), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Dev
Tips and Tricks added
MFC
- C++: Converting an MFC CString to a std::string - oleg63
CString m_Name;CT2CA pszName(m_Name);std::string m_NameStd(pszName);Works for me everywhere... :) (Unedited)
C++, MFC, string, convert
Programming Tips
- A very basic alpha blend algorithm - Mukit, Ataul
A simple implementation of alpha blending technique displaying the basic mechanism behind it (Unedited)
C++ - The goto-less goto! - testy_proconsul
bool bFailed = false; bFailed |= bFailed ? true : condition1; bFailed |= bFailed ? true : condition2; bFailed |= bFailed ? true : condition3; if( !bFailed ) { PerformActionOnAllSuccess(); ... (Unedited)
C++, C#
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