Quick and Dirty Series: C++ FileSize() function
Last Updated: 15 Dec 2004
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Finding the size of the file in C++ in a portable manner is not trivial!
Automated Delegation
Last Updated: 16 Aug 2005
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A technique for automated delegation and dynamic inheritance.
Polymorphism without Planning
Last Updated: 27 Nov 2004
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The OOTL uses a technique of allowing run-time polymorphism on objects, without requiring them to plan for it.
Polymorphism without Planning (under the hood)
Last Updated: 28 Nov 2004
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This article explains the techniques used to allow the interface reference types to be polymorphic on any type which provides matching function signatures.
Using Interfaces for Object Oriented Primitives
Last Updated: 7 Dec 2004
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An introduction to the OOTL (Object Oriented Template Library). Describes how the OOTL uses a bleeding-edge technique of defining interface types in C++ to provide lightweight object-oriented primitives with run-time polymorphism through an IObject interface.
Program Objects: Reusing and Redirecting C++ Programs
Last Updated: 6 Jan 2005
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By writing programs as objects, it can be easy to reuse programs, and redirect them to one another.
High Performance Dynamic Typing
Last Updated: 8 Aug 2005
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A high-performance alternative to boost::any.
Piping between Functions
Last Updated: 8 Jan 2005
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A trivial way to pipe the cout from one function to the cin of another.
Event Driven Programming using Template Specialization
Last Updated: 18 Dec 2004
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Template specializations can be used as call-backs instead of functors or function pointers to create an event-driven framework.
An Event Driven Windows GUI Framework
Last Updated: 20 Dec 2004
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Shows how to build a simple event based Windows GUI framework using template function specializations.
A Regular Expression Tokenizer using the YARD Parser
Last Updated: 12 Dec 2004
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A tokenizer using the YARD parser which can recognize regular expressions.
Parsing XML in C++ using the YARD Parser
Last Updated: 21 Dec 2004
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Provides a set of tools for building XML parsers in C++ using the YARD recursive descent parser.
Cat - A Statically Typed Programming Language Interpreter in C#
Last Updated: 4 Nov 2006
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This article contains the public domain implementation of an interpreter for a statically typed stack-based programming language in C# called Cat. The accompanying article is a high-level description of how the various modules work, a brief description of the language, and links to related work.
Union Lists: Single Value, Multiple Types
Last Updated: 20 Jan 2005
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A union list is a simple union style type which can hold one value of any of a fixed number of types.
Fast Indexable Stacks
Last Updated: 19 Nov 2005
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I provide an implementation of fast-growing indexable stacks which outperforms std::vector and std::deque.