I’m in the process of implementing a datamanagement protocol (CDMI). And am using cURL libraries in both C/C++, and PHP. Both server, and in C written client rely on encrypted communication via TLSv1, which comes with openssl on many platforms. To make things easy cURL was used on the client side.
Recently i’ve started work on [...]

To install Boost on Snow Leopard using a package manager, like Fink, makes life very easy. Problem when ‘making’ a Cpp or C file using the G++ (gcc), shipped with Xcode (3.2.4), it creates binaries using the x86_64 architecture, and boost of Fink is not. The default installation and packages of Fink are 32-bit or [...]

Importing Video via the ContentPipeline can only be done with WMV video files. It’s very hard to get the video format and encoding right, there is a lot of WMV importer complaining about corrupt files etc. But if you do get ‘em right the next hurdle is to get is displayed the right way.
I’m using a SpriteBatch [...]

I’ve launched my own opensource XML parsing project for Windows (.net 3.5) called: CutFish. It’s written in C# (Sharp C), opensource and available at SourceForge.net.
The Developer assigns the full XML file path, and the parser encapsulates Elements, and Attributes inside wrapping objects. These wrapping Objects can be iterated through in two directions: up and down. This [...]

Controlling USB connections to an embedded system can be a real pain. Fortunately many suppliers also ship their product with an BSP. I’ve made some adjustments to one of the examples to enable communication between the device and an C++ program.
Using Microchip’s framework by using IDE: Visual C++, MPlab (the worst IDE ever), you can [...]