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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 [...]

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.

Autotools are the set of GNU tools that configure their source packages for a particular computer system. If you have ever compiled a program using “configure” followed by “make” commands then chances are you have already used the output of Autotools.

This tutorial runs you through the basics of how to use Autotools.

This tutorial aims to teach you how to use the CVSTrac and Trac tools. I assume an administrator has already set one or both of them up for you and that you just need to get comfortable with the tools themselves. The tutorial should also be useful for people trying to decide whether to use one of these systems, but I do not cover how to set them up or administrate them.

In this tutorial I teach the basics of two configuration management / revision control systems: CVS and Subversion