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In a court case against the European Competition Commission, Microsoft has allegedly had to spend 35,000 man hours, producing 12,000 pages of documentation to show how easy it is to write software that interoperates with theirs. They even had to re-hire some people who worked on the original software to help document it. This is [...]

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I recently had to produce a console application and chose the Qt toolkit to write the application in. I can hear the shocked replies now, “isn’t Qt a graphics toolkit?”, “why bother?”, “how?”, “are you saying we should all use Qt?”, and “what has this got to do with professional programming?” I’ll address each question in turn. Isn’t Qt A [...]

I’ve taken down the polling system since the new (still experimental) forums have niftier polls. The results of the last poll were interesting — it looks like a lot of readers of this site write their own libraries: Do you find out about new libraries? Yes, I always check what’s new: 33% (4 votes) I make the libs [...]

I remember once in a boring lecture about searching and sorting algorithms, somebody I was sitting next to commented that they work in the software industry and that “in the real world, it’s more important to just get the code out the door than to use a fast search algorithm”. At the time, in my [...]