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Annotated Python - Header Checker
This article is targeted at those readers who don't know too much about python, but are curious. Curious about what python can do, whether or not it is as easy to read as enthusiasts expound, and is it worth putting effort into learning.
The article walks through the development of a script that can add and remove headers from text files.
Available in HTML. You can grab the script and the two header files used in the tests, gnu2005.txt and gnu2006.txt.
Multithreading 101
An introduction to threading.
- When to use threads, or not
- Threading primitives
- Threading concepts
- Memory barriers
- Race conditions
- Priority inversion
Published in Overload 72, April 2006.
Available in HTML, PDF, or a PDF of the slides presented at the ACCU Spring 2006 conference.
Dead Code
A technique for identifying unused code in a large project.
Published in Overload 71, February 2006.
Available in HTML.
With Spirit
A gentle introduction to boost::spirit – an object-oriented recursive-decent parser generator framework.
Published in Overload 69, October 2005.