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Recently while procrastinating at work I've been teaching myself Objective-C and Cocoa programming (I'm a C++ and Fortran programmer in my day job). I've gone through the Hillegass book ("Cocoa ...

Cinder, a “peer-reviewed, free, open source C++ library for creative coding” started by the folks at The Barbarian Group, has emerged from its early beginnings as an internal resource into a powerful ...

In my initial column on C++ smart pointers, I mentioned how smart pointers overcame the perception that C++ memory management was error-prone. Today I want to talk about the classic ...