CodeProject | Newsletter (30 May 2011)

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As promised we're announcing another chance to win some toys by writing an article. Our HTML5 / CSS3 competition starts today so dazzle us, amaze us, break us free from the 1990's. An iPad 2 is up for grabs as well as CodeProject stuff and the usual fame and adoration.

And speaking of competitions, the winners from last months article competition have been decided by you:

Best VB.NET article of April 2011
Naerling - What not to do: Anti-Patterns and the Solutions
Prizes: Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; The latest VB books from Apress; VBDepend; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7; Crypto Logger For .Net;
 
Best C# article of April 2011
Graham Wilson - The Amazing ProgressBar Control
Prizes: Shell MegaPack.Net 2010; The latest C# books from Apress; Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight; Crypto Obfuscator For .Net - Enterprise Edition; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7;
 
Best C++/MFC article of April 2011
Karpov Andrey - A Collection of Examples of 64-bit Errors in Real Programs
Prizes: Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; The latest C++ books from Apress; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; CppDepend;
 
Best ASP.NET article of April 2011
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira - MVC Bricks for ASP.net
Prizes: Nevron Chart for .NET (Lite edition); The latest ASP.NET books from Apress; Reuxables Ultimate Subscription for WPF + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7; ActiveReports; Spread for ASP.NET;
 
Best C++/MFC article of March 2011
Ahmed Charfeddine - Push Framework - A C++ toolkit for high performance server development in Windows
Prizes: Codejock Xtreme ToolkitPro; The latest C++ books from Apress; CryptoLicensing For MFC - Enterprise Edition; DragonFireSDK - Windows iPhone Development; CppDepend;
 
Best overall article of April 2011
Jonathan Cardy - A Collection of JavaScript Gotchas
Prizes: DevForce Silverlight; Code Project Mug; Mindscape WPF Elements 4.0; ActiveReports; Spread for ASP.NET;
 

Well done!

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Weekly Poll Results

Who does the security audit of your applications?

Survey period: 23 May 2011 to 30 May 2011

Ensuring passwords are transmitted safely, protecting from SQL injection attacks, not leaving gaping backdoors open. Who ensures your code is safe to go out into the real world?

OptionVotes% 
I do27635.80276 votes, 35.80%
We do peer reviews among our team9412.1994 votes, 12.19%
My team lead / senior dev405.1940 votes, 5.19%
We have a dedicated security person or team597.6559 votes, 7.65%
We use an outside consultant or specialist283.6328 votes, 3.63%
No one - it's not necessary9712.5897 votes, 12.58%
No one - we've never bothered14218.42142 votes, 18.42%
Other354.5435 votes, 4.54%
Total771  100%771 votes

This week's survey: Are you moving away from traditional relational databases?

Most popular new articles
23 May 2011 - 30 May 2011

Latest Additions

154 articles overall 103 new, 84 updated, 1 moved. 42 were edited, 112 unedited
Article topics listed: C++

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New articles added

Grid & Data Controls

Static & Panel Controls

Product Showcase

  • Part 5: OpenCL Buffers and Memory Affinity - manythreads
    This fifth article in a series on portable multithreaded programming using OpenCL™ Rob Farber discusses OpenCL™ buffers and demonstrates how to tie computation to data in a multi-device, multi-GPU environment.
    C++, Dev, OpenCL

  • Part 6: Primitive Restart and OpenGL Interoperability - manythreads
    This sixth article in a series on portable multithreaded programming using OpenCL™ where Rob Farber discusses how to calculate data in OpenCL™ and render it with OpenGL within the same application.
    C++, Dev, OpenCL

Third Party Products and Tools

  • What are Online Compilers & Online IDE's? - NickBudden
    An online compiler allows you to access, edit, and compile your code from any web browser. (Unedited)
    C++, C++/CLI, C, C#, VB, VBScript, Java, Ruby, .NET, Cloud, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Apache, CEO, Architect, DBA, Dev, SysAdmin, IDE, compiler

Articles updated

Dialogs and Windows

Edit Controls

Applications & Tools

Trace and Logs

  • TraceTool 12.4: The Swiss-Army Knife of Trace - Thierry Parent
    A C#, C++, Delphi, ActiveX , Javascript and Java trace framework and a trace viewer: Tail, OutputDebugString, event log, and with Log4J, Log4Net, and Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) support. This also comes with full support for Pocket PC, Silverlight, and Android.
    C#, Javascript, Java, VC7.1, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Android, Silverlight, VS.NET2003, Dev

General Graphics

C / C++ Language

  • QxOrm - C++ ORM (Object Relational Mapping) library - QxOrm
    QxOrm C++ library : persistence (based on QtSql Qt library) - serialization (based on boost::serialization library) - reflection (introspection) (Unedited)
    C++, XML, SQL, Windows, Linux, collections, cross-platform, database, library, clone

Algorithms & Recipes

  • Logician: A Table-based Rules Engine Suite In C++/.NET/JavaScript using XML - Eric D Schmidt
    Overview of a cross-platform spreadsheet-based rules enigne with algorithms implemented in C++ and JavaScript, and wrappers to C#/.NET/Silverlight, Flash, and Mobile Platforms(via PhoneGap) (Unedited)
    C++, C++/CLI, C#, Javascript, XML, Windows, .NET, Mobile, Linux, Architect, Dev, Web-Development, Application, Framework

  • The XML Parsing Article That Should (Not) Be Written! - Wong Shao Voon
    The C++ XML parsing article which should have been written since the advent of XML! This article defines a new Elmax abstraction model over the DOM model.
    C#, XML, VC8.0, VC9.0, VC10.0, .NET2.0, Dev

Threads, Processes & IPC

Technical blogs added

DirectX

  • Introducing DirectX to WPF - Super Lloyd
    CodeProjectI started to learn DirectX. I wanted, of course, to use it in a WPF environment. I don’t hope to write a game (yet?) but I thought it would be a good API for high performance data visualization. Or simply capturing and tweaking web cam output.I discovered SharpDX by Alexandre Mutel, (Unedited)
    C++, Windows, OpenGL

Threads, Processes & IPC

Debug Tips

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