The original outline for this article emphasized a C++ tutorial far more than the final version. We've reversed that design and reduced the tutorial to just a sidebar. The first reason for this is ...

The days when writing GUI applications was a matter between you and your favorite text editor struggling with a compiler and make are long gone. Even without an integrated development environment (IDE ...

More and more projects require a software component these days. With everything being networked, it is getting harder to avoid having to provide software for a desktop or phone environment as well as ...