Kurt Guntheroth's Old Hands Blog

I saw an article on Slate about how Google wants to build the famous talking computer from Star Trek. Google doesn't want to return lin...

C++ comes with a set of templatized container classes so developers don't have to re-implement a doubly linked list or balanced binary t...

I wrote a wonderful book on performance tuning in C++. Plug, plug, plug. Buy it now! The web is full of free optimization advice. The best...

I have talked about achieving mastery previously . Here's another , perhaps better researched article on how long it takes to achieve m...

It is a terrible idea to teach yourself how to use some unfamiliar feature of C++ by designing a library that heavily uses this feature. I...

C++ is old enough to have teenaged children (like Java, conceived when C++ was itself a wild teenager). Some lucky developers have spent vir...

Here are some aphorisms that I think upon, usually during meetings with grumpy managers. It takes the same time to do a project right as t...