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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 [...]

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.