Programming is hard. I hope no one would argue that. But the topic of new programming languages, or more exactly, search of a "silver bullet" is always highly popular with software developers...
In Visual Studio C++ compiler, there is the warning C4311 ('variable' : pointer truncation from 'type' to 'type') intended to detect errors of casting a pointer to 32-bit data types. This...
While telling programmers about 64-bit issues they may encounter when porting their programs, I often hear reproaches: "Yes, surely - such is your Windows... How good it is that Linux has had...
The Application Developer Days conference was held in Yaroslavl September 23-24, 2010. The conference's symbol was a "stop" sign for woodpeckers - it meant that only those reports which were...
I decided to take a look at the new Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2011 beta and write an article with an example of using it. However, the emphasis was partly moved from using Amplifier to testing...
Static code analysis technologies are used in companies with mature software development processes. However, there might be different levels of using and introducing code analysis tools into...