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Upcoming Talks and Tutorials

stephencdewhurst — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:39:44 GMT

Software Development, Santa Clara, March 3 ? 7 ... Dan Saks (http://www.dansaks.com) and I will be giving a new full-day tutorial: "Sooner Rather Than Later:

link for "Once, Weakly" reestablished

stephencdewhurst — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:47:20 GMT

Due to popular demand and a certain amount of kvetching, I've reestablished a link to the (currently inactive) Once, Weakly column on semantics.org. This is

SD Best Practices in Boston

stephencdewhurst — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:23:13 GMT

SD Best Practices in Boston is being held the week of September 11th. Please see for conference details. I'll be giving five talks:

Documented flist

stephencdewhurst — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:38:51 GMT

flist is now documented! I've posted documentation on Semantics Consulting's code page, along with the most current version of flist at

List grows up!

stephencdewhurst — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:53:41 GMT

A while back I published an article in the (late, much missed) CUJ describing a List container that used two-way pointers to implement an STL-like container

Hierarchy Design Talk

stephencdewhurst — Sat, 13 May 2006 13:50:33 GMT

I'll be giving a talk on "Class Hierarchy Design Idioms in C++" for the Silicon Valley chapter of the ACCU the evening of Wednesday, May 24th. (For details,

C++ommon Knowledge: I know I know, and I know YOU know, but...

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:44:24 GMT

...do THEY know? I'm not trying to insult anyone with this week's items, but I do occasionally run into newer C++ programmers who don't realize that the

casting about for topics

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:50:31 GMT

This week, C++ommon Knowledge attempts to discuss old and new style casting in an evenhanded and nonjudgmental way. With partial success. Actually, we come

The Big Picture

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:01:37 GMT

It's "Big Picture" week at C++ommon Knowledge. If you encounter a new hire who thinks that a bunch of get/sets means abstract data type, who thinks base

C++ommon Templates

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:55:42 GMT

OK, back to templates: This week we'll look at member templates (both function and class) and consider the syntactic problems they engender. Then a discussion

C++ommon Knowledge: Exceptions

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:43:34 GMT

This week we'll attempt to whittle the subject of writing exception safe code to about six pages total (well, a couple topics will be covered later). We'll

C++ommon Knowledge: Function Pointers?

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:45:23 GMT

This week's C++ommon Knowledge deals with function pointers and their avoidance. I know what you're thinking, who doesn't know about pointers to functions?

New Online C++ Magazine!

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:29:29 GMT

...and a big round of applause for Chuck Allison, august former senior editor of the C/C++ Users Journal for teaming up with Bill Venners to launch a much

New Online C++ Zine!

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:18:41 GMT

...and a big round of applause for Chuck Allison, august former senior editor of the C/C++ Users Journal for teaming up with Bill Venners to launch a much

Gotcha Translations and Once, Weakly

Stephen C. Dewhurst — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:24:49 GMT

More Translations ... C++ Gotchas is now available in Japanese and Korean! See the translations section on the Gotchas home page at