Insane Coding

A little over a week ago, I wrote an article about some common porting mistakes for a new library - LibreSSL. I've since received multi...

OpenSSL & LibreSSL OpenBSD recently forked the popular SSL/TLS library OpenSSL into LibreSSL . Most of the reaction to this that I...

Problem A common issue when dealing with a custom object or any kind of data is to create some sort of save functionality with it, perhaps...

Last week I discussed 6 different methods on how to quickly get an entire file into a C++ string . The conclusion was that the straight forw...

So here's a simple question, what is the correct way to read in a file completely in C++? Various people have various solutions, those...

Google announced they're shutting down Code Search . I found Google Code Search to be invaluable in the kind of work I do. I saved tons...

Recently, someone asked me why is it that the custom file dialogs in some programs I wrote are able to load a file list so much faster than ...

Last week I demonstrated a solution to the virtual constructor problem. My solution avoids many issues with the factory function solution. ...