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by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

Synchronization with Visual C++ and the Windows API

by Espen Harlinn

Choosing the right synchronization mechanisms when working with threads, thread-pools, and I/O Completion ports to create high performance asynchronous servers in C++

Intermediate Data Clustering with k-means

by Andy Allinger

Add features to k-means for missing data, mixed data, and choosing the number of clusters

Authenticated Encryption

by Jeffrey Walton

Perform authenticated encryption with Crypto++.

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BASIC is not dead! Neither is the WIN32! Time to end the myth. (Part 3)

by Chris Boss

BASIC: A powerful language often underestimated and undervalued

RGFW | Singler-Header Lightweight Framework for Basic Window and Graphics Context Handling (like GLFW)

by ColleagueRiley

A multi-platform single-header very simple-to-use framework library for creating GUI Libraries or simple GUI programs.

How to Design an AXI4 Stream Interface in Vitis HLS

by FPGANinja

A walkthrough and source code for designing a stream interface in Vitis HLS

Fast SSE Pseudo Random Number Generator

by Alexey Shtykov

The thing that could generate pseudo random numbers faster than standard library does

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C

BASIC is not dead! Neither is the WIN32! Time to end the myth. (Part 3)

28 Feb 2024 by Chris Boss

BASIC: A powerful language often underestimated and undervalued

Basic

Win32

PostScript

GUI

Developing a PC-speaker MIDI Player for the IBM PC XT

12 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to develop PC-speaker MIDI player for IBM PC XT

Converting between NSString and C Strings in an iOS Project

8 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to convert between NSString and C strings in iOS project

Revisiting Borland Turbo C/C++, A Great IDE back in the 90s

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

A look at Borland Turbo C/C++

Pascal

Turbo

Exploring Retro68 GCC-based SDK for 68K Macintosh Computers

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

Retro68 GCC-based SDK for 68K Mac

Using picojpeg Library on a PIC with ILI9341 320×240 LCD Module

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to use picojpeg library on a PIC with ILI9341 320×240 LCD module

Integrating FatFs FAT filesystem Module with CH375/CH376 USB Controller

3 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to integrate FatFs FAT filesystem module with CH375/CH376 USB controller

Open 16-bit Windows Applications Natively on 64-bit Windows Using OTVDM/winevdm

10 Apr 2023 by Tough Developer

How to open 16-bit Win apps natively on 64-bit Windows using OTVDM/winevdm

Windows

DOS

Playing Alley Cat, a Classic MS-DOS Game, From Your Web Browser

5 Apr 2023 by ToughDev

How to play the classic MS-DOS game - Alley Cat - from your browser

WiFi thermometer using NodeMCU, DHT22 and Flask

13 Feb 2019 by Philipp_Engelmann

With IoT (Internet of Things) on the rise and hardware getting cheaper and cheaper, it's a great time to explore the possibilities this new technology provides.

Please Have a C API for Your Library

27 Jan 2018 by RCL_SPD

Please have a C API for your library

API

COFILOS SD Card Driver

4 Apr 2017 by grilialex

COFILOS SD Card Driver

embedded

TDD

driver

PRODINo: Home Automation with ESP8266 based WiFi Control

4 Dec 2016 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

Home Automation is made simple for everyone, with the industrial grade PRODINo ESP8266 based module. It can be programmed with the Arduino IDE and allows to control (ON/OFF switch) mains (110-240 VAC) powered devices such as light bulbs, water pumps, cafe machines or garage doors.

JavaScript-Based IoT/WoT Development with the ESP8266

20 Oct 2016 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

As opposed to the less powerful Arduino, the competitively priced and WiFi-enabled ESP8266 supports the Web-of-Things (WoT) since it can be programmed in JavaScript.

Installing MINIX 3 on QEMU/KVM with Networking

21 Sep 2016 by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

Installing MINIX 3 on QEMU/KVM with networking

Create Many-to-one Mapping in C

3 Sep 2016 by Eric Z (Jing)

How to create many-to-one mapping in C

WoT with Arduino for Beginners: Part 3 - Connecting to the Internet via WiFi

3 May 2016 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

In this multi-part tutorial we show how to develop Arduino-based apps for the Web of Things (WoT). This third part shows how to set up a connection between an Arduino and the Internet via a WiFi network and use HTTP(S) to send data to a free cloud service like ThingSpeak.

C++

Dev

WoT with Arduino for Beginners: Part 1 - Mastering the RGB LED

22 Apr 2016 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

Learn how to develop Arduino-based apps for the Web of Things (WoT). This first part of a series of tutorials shows the basics of an Arduino program (known as a "sketch") and provides a quick introduction to some electronic components, including resistors, RGB LEDs and LEDs in general.

C++

Dev

IoT

WoT with Arduino for Beginners: Part 2 - Connecting to the Real World via Sensors

18 Apr 2016 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

Learn how to develop Arduino-based apps for the Web of Things (WoT). This second part of a series of tutorials shows how to read analog and digital sensors with the help of Arduino.

C++

Dev

IoT

Auto Login in TI-SDK, Am335x

18 Mar 2016 by johnniealan

Auto Login in TI-SDK, Am335x

Optional passed by reference parameters with C# for VBA COM APIs

5 Sep 2015 by Pragmateek

Introduction If you've already developed COM APIs with .Net, typically in C# with VBA as the consuming language, you've probably leveraged two powerful features: by-reference parameter passing that allows the API to change the input object itself, not only its ... Continue reading ...

Arduino Software Reset

23 Jul 2015 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

Three easy ways to programmatically reboot/reset an Arduino MCU.

C++

Arduino

Identifying the Arduino Microcontroller Type

22 Jul 2015 by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

Learn how to identifying the Arduino microcontroller type by simply using C/C++ code.

C++

Arduino

Bridging the Client-Server Boundary – An Experiment in Architectures for Next-generation Web Applications

1 May 2015 by Ben Liebert

Bridging the client-server boundary – an experiment in architectures for next-generation web applications

HTML

VS2013

New Developers and the Importance of C

12 Apr 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

New developers and the importance of C; this blog post is about my opinion and views about C programming language's importance for beginners in programming. Yours might be different!

All-Topics

Dev

Exploring the Internet of Things (IoT) with Lync (& Skype for Business) and .Net Gadgeteer

22 Jan 2015 by matthewproctor

This article demonstrates how to use Lync as an endpoint for monitoring hardware and devices - in this instance the Gadgeteer Fez Spider board with a Gas Sensor.

C#5.0

.NET

Windows

Azure Veneziano – LinkIt ONE

29 Dec 2014 by Mario Vernari

This post follows my first one on Internet-of-Things telemetry project based on Azure.

What Does The Preprocessor Do?

4 Nov 2014 by Faye Williams

What does the preprocessor do?

Learn Basic “C” Coding Rules From Open Source Projects

19 Oct 2014 by Issam Lahlali

In this post, you will learn basic "C" coding rules from open source projects

All-Topics

Networking and Socket Programming Tutorial in C

21 Aug 2014 by Edison Heng

Networking and Socket programming tutorial in C.

Square Root algorithm for C

21 Aug 2014 by Edison Heng

Square Root algorithm for C

C++

Introduction to Swift

7 Aug 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

Introduction to Swift

Resolving Strong References Between Swift and Objective-C Classes - Using Unowned and Weak References from Swift to Objective-C Classes

30 Jun 2014 by PeteBarber

How to resolve strong references between Swift and Objective-C classes - using unowned and weak references from Swift to Objective-C classes

Objective-C

Debugging Deeper through Reference Source

12 Apr 2014 by Rion Williams

How to debug deeper through reference source

C++

VS2013

All-Topics

.LESS Web.config/DotlessConfiguration Options

14 Jan 2014 by Cindy Potvin

Many options of the .LESS CSS parser can be set directly from the Web.config file, but many of them are not clearly described. Here is my attempt to document them.

Motivations of Choosing C: Git Case Study

17 Dec 2013 by Issam Lahlali

Motivations of choosing C: Git case study

UIColor - Why Hast Though Forsaken Me!?

23 Nov 2013 by NSProgrammer

In this post, I'm going to take a very short amount of time making everyone's color coding lives easier with some UIColor code extensions.

Objective-C

glGenerateMipmap Plus SOIL library, OpenGL

1 Oct 2013 by Bartlomiej Filipek

glGenerateMipmap Plus SOIL library

C++

OpenGL

Color Constancy: Gray World Algorithm

15 Sep 2013 by pi19404

Color constancy is a mechanism of detection of color independent of light source. The light source many introduce color casts in captured digital images To solve the color constancy problem a standard method is to estimate the color of the prevailing light

Anatomy of a Singleton

28 Aug 2013 by NSProgrammer

Anatomy of a Singleton.

Objective-C

Updating UITableView with a dynamic data source

14 Aug 2013 by NSProgrammer

How to update UITableView with a dynamic data source

Objective-C

Ternary, Tertiary, Terinary …

25 Jun 2013 by Dennis E White

What really is the correct spelling for this conditional operator?

Objective-C

All-Topics

A Better NSData Description

8 Jun 2013 by NSProgrammer

A better NSData description

All-Topics

Method Swizzling

8 Jun 2013 by NSProgrammer

About method swizzling

Objective-C

All-Topics

Simple UIToolbar as Keyboard Accessory

3 Apr 2013 by ClayJones

UITextField has a property called inputAccessoryView that can be set to a UIToolbar to give the user something to do after inputting text.

Objective-C

Lessons to Learn from Hibernate Core Implementation

1 Apr 2013 by Issam Lahlali

In this post, Hibernate Core is analyzed by JArchitect to go deep inside its design and implementation.

Essential Macros for C Programming

25 Mar 2013 by hudku

Essential macros for C programming

C++

Linux

Windows

#Include little toolkit

14 Mar 2013 by Bartlomiej Filipek

Include Guards, Pragma Once, Predeclarations and other hints that might be useful when dealing with includes.

C++

View Unloading into the Future!

4 Mar 2013 by NSProgrammer

Let's jump into memory warnings!

Objective-C

Dev

Better Reference Counting (Safe Release)

4 Mar 2013 by NSProgrammer

Better reference counting.

Objective-C

Dev

LINQ to Objective-C

25 Feb 2013 by Colin Eberhardt

Creating a LINQ-style API for Objective-C has proven to be relatively simple (and fun!). I have provided implementations for some of the most common and useful LINQ methods, however the .NET LINQ APIs for querying collections have a great many more methods than the ones I have covered.

Objective-C

LINQ

Dev

Essential tools for debugging and troubleshooting: Dependency Walker aka Depends

25 Feb 2013 by Pragmateek

Essential tools for debugging and troubleshooting.

Dev

C#/C Interop with DllImport

25 Feb 2013 by Pragmateek

Keep reading and in 10 minutes you’ll know DllImport (almost) like a pro.

Dev

Instantiate Storyboard ViewControllers Manually

12 Feb 2013 by Chris Demiris

Instantiate Storyboard view controllers manually.

Objective-C

How to Pass Values to UILabel Objects in iOS 6 Storyboard

19 Dec 2012 by Perjan

How to pass values to UILabel objects in iOS 6 Storyboard

HTML

Objective-C

How to Show Hide Navigation Bar When Tap in iOS Occurs

19 Dec 2012 by Perjan

A quick tip that will show you how to show hide Navigation Bar when tap in iOS occurs

Too Slow to Code in C: C++ is Just Easier

26 Nov 2012 by alex turner

C takes far too long to code up when complex data marshalling or logic gets involved. Also, the very act of writing it is so slow because of its challenges to the IDE.

C++

Clang Rocks!

12 Oct 2012 by Issam Lahlali

In this article, we will discover the power of Clang's design that can help you to develop many kinds of tools.

C++

Dev

P/Invoke Tutorial: Basics (Part 1)

13 Jun 2012 by Sebastian Krysmanski

This article will cover the basics of using P/Invoke.

C++

.NET

PInvoke

From C to Hardware

1 May 2012 by ericevenchick

Let's look at the components involved in microcontrollers and see how they work.

Windows

Dev

How To: Use Leaderboards on iOS (iPhone/iPad) with XPG

26 Jan 2012 by XPG Live

Use leaderboards on iOS (iPhone/iPad) with XPG

C/C++ – Python interop

13 Dec 2011 by Barry Lapthorn

Python interop in C/C++.

Python

C++

Dev

Massively Parallel Monte Carlo Simulation using GPU

28 Nov 2011 by Adnan Boz

In this blog post, I’m diving deeper into Thrust usage scenarios with a simple implementation of Monte Carlo Simulation.

A Simple opengl Example of Android using cle

25 Nov 2011 by li9705

A simple opengl example of Android using cle

Android

Mobile

Marshaling with C# – Chapter 2: Marshaling Simple Types

28 Dec 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to marshal simple types (integers, strings, etc.) in C#.

.NET

Win32

Marshaling with C# – Chapter 3: Marshaling Compound Types

28 Dec 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to marshal compound types (structures, unions, etc.) in C#.

.NET

Win32

Marshaling with C# – Chapter 1: Introducing Marshaling

28 Dec 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Introduction to marshaling

.NET

Win32

The bug in MFC tool tip control

13 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov

The bug in MFC tool tip control

C vs C++: Linux Analysis Case

17 Aug 2010 by Issam Lahlali

C vs C++: Linux analysis case

C++

Linux

OpenGL Oval

14 Aug 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

How to draw an oval using lines or fill it using triangles?

OpenGL

C Pointer Tricks

2 Jun 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

Interesting/weird usage of pointers in C

OpenGL Camera

30 May 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

How to change the camera view in an OpenGL application

OpenGL

Dynamic Three Dimensional Arrays in C\C++\C#\Java

24 May 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

Implementing a three dimensional array dynamically in C, C++, C# and Java

Java

C++

OpenGL Color Interpolation

18 May 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

An attempt to understand the internal logic of drawing and coloring lines in a graphics library.

OpenGL

OpenGL String (printw)

2 Apr 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

Make drawing text in your OpenGL app as simple as calling printf

OpenGL

Re boxed primitives in Java and .NET

23 Mar 2010 by rtybase

Why "i = i++" expression returns different results in C++ and Java/.NET?

Java

C++

.NET

Converting Colors to Gray Shades

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Convert colors to gray shades, detect Print Preview mode, and detect Black-and-White printers

BeginPaint/EndPaint or GetDC/ReleaseDC?

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Which is better, to use BeginPaint/EndPaint, or to use GetDC/ReleaseDC?

GDI

Win32

Simulating CWinApp::OnIdle in C

18 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to create your CWinApp::OnIdle in C

C++

MFC

Win32

How To Use UIScrollView in Your iPhone App

7 Dec 2009 by MobileAppMastery

This video will show you how to implement this in your own iPhone app.

Objective-C

Dev

How to Use UIPasteBoard to Implement Custom Copy and Paste In Your App

2 Nov 2009 by MobileAppMastery

Here is how to use UIPasteBoard to implement custom copy and paste in your app

Objective-C

iPhone

Mobile

Formatting Dates relative to Now – Objective C (iPhone)

1 Sep 2009 by User 1556233

A user friendly dateformatter in objective C

Objective-C

iPhone

Mobile

State Design Pattern

14 Aug 2009 by Salmanzz

State Design Pattern

iPhone Tutorial – In-App Email

20 Jul 2009 by User 1556233

Sending an email from your iPhone application is something which you normally want to do it asynchronously. But unfortunately, prior to iPhone 3.0, the only way to send email was using mailto:// url format. i.e, [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: @"mailto:john.appleseed@appl

Setting up XCode 3.0 with SVN

19 Jul 2009 by User 1556233

codeproject Everyone knows SVN (Subversions) is the best version control tool on the planet. XCode, though, might not be as great as eclipse or Visual Studio, it offers one of the best integration with open platforms than both eclipse and Visual Studio.

PC-lint 101: What does "previously used .lnt file" mean?

8 Jun 2009 by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

A .lnt file is an "indirect file", which is simply a collection of PC-lint directives.

VC7.0

VC7.1