John Engelhart posted to Cocoa-dev a detailed explanation of what exactly const means in C programs. Keep in mind that he’s talking about C, not C++ (where const has a stronger meaning and even a slightly different semantic when used to declare constant values). Still, it’s worth reading.
Category: Software Development
A little rant about .NET’s ReportViewer
The .NET Framework 2.0 contains a component called ReportViewer which can be used to generate reports in different formats (HTML, PDF, etc…). After having used it for a couple of reports in a web application, I came to believe that the only good thing about it is that it’s free (when used in Local mode). …
(White) Space, the final frontier
In this second post about my preferred coding style, I’ll talk about white space. White space is very important to improve readability, not only when dealing with code. For instance, when you write an email you usually break it up in several paragraphs, instead of writing a single chunk of code (or if you don’t, …
Zen and the Art of Coding
Writing software is an art: some say it’s a black art (usually right after Word decided to crash taking their last two hours of work to hell ;-)). Someone even considers it a magic art, which reminds of an Arthur Clark quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Like other arts, it has …