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If you are tired of writing code, this talk is for you. The scam of the century - how to get more behavior with less code - will unveil under your incredulous eyes. Like in those pyramid schemes, a linear code-writing …
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May 7th, 2001 — Effective STL Sneak Preview — Scott Meyers
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Overlake Hospital Conference Center121 107th Ave NEBellevueread moreAbstract
We are very fortunate to have Scott Meyers come to speak with us this month. Scott of course is the author of “Effective C++” and “More Effective C++”, generally acclaimed as two of the most important books ever written …
April 11th, 2001 — CPP-Unit Testing Framework — Troy Frever
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A unit testing framework simplifies the creation of a test suite for a software project. It encourages the programmer to write the tests along with the code and to run the suite often for verification of code changes. Troy …
March 14th, 2001 — XML and C++ — Mike Moskowitz
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Note: If you attended the WSA Developer’s Seminar on XML, you know that Mike gave a great presentation on XML. But, he didn’t talk about C++.
February 15th, 2001 — Volatile - Multithreaded Programmer’s Best Friend — Andrei Alexandrescu
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could have the compiler help you navigate the murky waters of multithreaded programming? This talk delves into the under explored issue of volatile-correctness. The exciting discovery is - if you follow a couple …
January 8th–9th, 2001 — Microsoft’s .NET Initiative — Jeffrey Richter
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Overlake Hospital Conference Center121 107th Ave NEBellevue, WANOTE: The Overlake Hospital Conference Center is off Old Main Street and 107th in Bellevue, not at the hospital itself. Take Main Street and turn North onto 107th, conference center will be on your left.
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December 2000: No Meeting
November 13th, 2000 — Microsoft Visual Studio 7 Preview — Martyn Lovell
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Visual Studio 7 is due to be launched early next year, and is Microsoft’s first real deliverable in their .NET initiative. Martyn Lovell of Microsoft will give a preview of Visual Studio 7, concentrating on C# and ASP …
October 2000: No Meeting
September 13th, 2000 — Change the Way You Write Exception-Safe Code, Forever — Andrei Alexandrescu
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This talk presents the subtle issues associated with writing correct code in the presence of exceptions. Writing exception-safe code is a must for preserving the sanity of any application. This task is daunting because exceptions introduce hidden control flows …
August 9th, 2000 — Building a High Performance Server Product on Win NT/2000 Using C/C++ — Chris Hickman & Joe Mullally
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Joe will start by talking about building a high performance server product on Win NT/2000 using C/C++. Specifically:
- I/O Completion Ports
- Object and Context Pooling
- Protocol and Error Mapping
- When and How to use Spinlock vs …
July 2000: No Meeting
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