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A surprising number of people who code in C++ are not familiar with the Standard Template Library, or “STL”. The STL has been a C++ standard for about 7 years now. Its most important components are the “string” class and the various “container” templates.

Phil Chu’s company, Technicat, is a consulting and development company specializing in net, educational, graphical and video game software.

Phil writes articles based on his experience and they’re available on his web site. One that’s particularly relevant to Developing Programmers is called “Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers”.

The temperature in Melbourne (Australia) reached 41.2° C (106.16° F) today so we got some network problems. If you weren’t able to access Developing Programmers recently, it should all be back to normal now.

Jamie Wodetzki is a technology lawyer. I had the opportunity to ask him some questions over breakfast. I asked him about two different topics: Mixing open source and proprietary software licenses, and “those scary clauses” from employment contracts. This article is about worrisome clauses typical in programmers’ employment contracts.

According to our poll of 13 people, 54% of visitors prefer real coffee, 23% prefer instant, 15% prefer coke and one person preferred Chinotto, an uncaffinated Italian drink.