Contrary to popular opinion, C++ is still the most powerful general purpose programming language. It runs circles around other languages and today’s compilers have RAD capabilities that only belonged before to languages like Visual Basic and Delphi. Many people consider C++ to be a mid level language because it has both high and low level [...]

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I used to create the layouts for my web sites. A decade ago, most web sites were built by programmers instead of graphic designers … and it showed. The designs were very plain and boxy. Programmers lack the imagination and ability to make images flow between cells in a table. In general, the designs were very [...]

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Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia recently completed a study on the effects that laser printers may have on respiratory health. The group, led by Professor Lidia Morawska (an environmental physicist professor) found that certain printers had dangerous levels of particle emissions.

62 printers were tested with the following results: 37 were non-emitters, 6 [...]

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Are they serious at the Wired How To Wiki? They recently published the article, Compile Software From Source Code. This article is about the increasing number of open source applications that are becoming available. The idea here is that at times you’ll have to compile the code to have a working application. This is something [...]

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Every programmer wants to produce great, bug free source code. Its not because of pride, but we tend to be perfectionists and after carefully planning our application, its expected to work well. A well designed application depends on the quality of source code and the planning behind the architecture of the software. While being knowledgeable [...]

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