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Abstract There are actually 91 errors described in the article, but number 90 looks nicer in the title. The article is intended for C/C++ programmers, but developers working with other languages may also find it interesting. The materials collected in this article will be useful for authors of articles, books and blogs. Examples of errors […]

Some developers have a love/hate relationship with JavaScript, as evidenced by a recent article which lamented about JavaScript being more annoying than Java. After reading that article, one developer pontificated about the role JavaScript has played in his career, and just how much a single line of JavaScript typically cost. The many problems that come […]

Even as HP this week announced that it would be bundling links to the Box.net collaboration and storage services with some of its enterprise PCs, Microsoft was already working on its own deal with HP, which was announced today–a four year deal in which HP will sell Microsoft Office 365 cloud services to enterprise customers. […]

Introduction What is a Metro Type Application? Metro Style Applications are full screen applications and they are more harmonious in the sense that the age old mechanism of using mice keyboards has been revamped with the first-class option of touch. These applications are chromeless; this means every pixel on the window can be used for […]

When Windows 8 ARM tablets hit the market, developers and end users alike are eager to know if they will have the ability to run “Desktop App” i.e. apps that are not created in the new Metro-style. It’s a given that legacy Win32 apps won’t run without some work, in fact, all legacy apps will […]

In the last year, Microsoft has publicly recommitted to advancing C++ functionality in Visual Studio 2010, but many developers who took the time to download Visual C++ for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview were not happy. For native developers, the lack of the core C++11 language features was a slap in the face. Even Microsoft […]

Introduction A Performance engineering engagement has been conducted for one of the leading automobile insurance companies in Canada. As per the customer decision to reduce the operational and maintenance expenditure, the data residing in different data stores such as DB2 and Oracle is transferred to a consolidated repository maintained in SQL Server 2008. The existing […]

Although Microsoft’s C# programming language is beginning to overtake C++ in developer popularity, Java is still the number one programming language of choice with developers. C++ is still popular, however, with mobile app developers, and that fact may be holding some developers up from making the move to C#. As Tiobe Programming’s managing director, Paul […]

This week Microsoft, along with Esri and the EEA’s Eye on Earth service, joined together to create a cloud computing network that will enable Europeans to share data about the climate via the cloud. The Eye on Earth network, as it’s known, combines Microsoft Azure with Esri’s ArcGIS Online cloud service. The chief environmental strategist […]

This week Microsoft will host an event that will focus on the unveiling of its Windows 8 app store. Initially announced in an August blog post that mentioned that a team was working on an “app store,” the Windows Store, as it came to be known, will allow developers to sells their apps anywhere that […]

SAP has been known as a business that develops its own software products that will eventually be purchased, installed and ran on other companies computers. Recently, however, even SAP has began to respond to the demand for cloud services. SuccessFactors, a web-based employee management software company, was recently acquired by SAP–a move that may be […]

We’ve checked Apache HTTP Server with PVS-Studio and as we expected, we found errors. The errors are few, which we also expected. Other developers also come across this situation while testing PVS-Studio on their projects. Unfortunately, the first conclusion you would like to draw on seeing just a few errors is that a tool like […]