Free Software Movement Karnataka(FSMK)<http://fsmk.org/> in coordination with IEEE Bangalore section, IBM Linux Technology Centre
and BMSCE announces a Linux kernel tutorial.

Hi all

Good news to share :-)

Recently I've been interviewed by the Yahoo! India Groups Community Manager Shefali to publish a short story about my group C4Swimmers (a.k.a C For Swimmers - Discover the depth of C).

Blog story about C4Swimmers published @ Official Yahoo! India Groups Blog : http://www.ygroupsblog.in/blog/2009/01/13/c-for-swimmers/
Yahoo! India Groups Blog : http://www.ygroupsblog.in

(Tutorial) Extreme Programming Explored

(DOWNLOAD) PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS FOR BEGINEERS in c++

1.Accept radius & Produce Area
2. Area of Triangle
3. Calculate Electricity Bill
4. Calculation
5. Celsius to Farenheit
6. Chack for Odd or Even
7. Conversion to Yard Feet Inches
8. Conversion to Yard Feet Inches
9. Display using cout
10. Find Factorial
11. Greatest of 3 nos
12. Greatest of 3 nos using conditional
13. Multiplication Table
14. No of Days Years Weeks
15. Print Quotient & Remainder

(TUTORIAL) C++ Programming

Virtual functions

I have heard people say things like ``As a performance optimization, I've removed all virtual functions and replaced the virtual function calls with switch statements and ordinary member function calls.'' That is a major performance killer. If you need the functionality that a virtual function call gives you, there is just no way to do it faster than through a virtual function call. The switch switch/call construct is guaranteed to require at least as many

(CODE) Calendar Date Class in C++

As a means of illustrating what an actual large and complete C++ class looks like, we will present a class for managing calendar dates. Commentary on this class is given below the source.

First of all, the header:

(ARTICLE) Image Handling in C

Here's an example program that displays the data for a 24-bit bitmap.
(It will not work for bitmaps with a color palette.)

(ARTICLE) Sending email with c#

Well, I recently wrote a c# app sending email by connecting to known  SMTP servers using System.Net.Mail, and sending mail from your account  without having to connect to the site. The problem is I can send mail only from Gmail accounts. both yahoo,  hotmail and another less know host Walla(from my country), fail to send  emails and pop-up different errors. - when i try to connect to yahoo through my account i get this error:

(ARTICLE) Exception Handling Techniques in ASP.NET

(Article) Understand How Query Expressions Map to Method Calls

LINQ is built on two concepts: A query language and a translation from that query language to a set of methods. Every query expression has a mapping to some method call or calls. You should understand this mapping from two different perspectives: From the perspective of a class user and as a class designer.

 The C# compiler converts query expressions

(ARTICLE) Use lock() As Your First Choice for Synchronization

Bill Wagner shows how to provide a safe way for different threads in your application to send and receive data with each other by using synchronization primitives to protect access to the shared data.

Threads need to communicate with each other. Somehow, you need to provide a safe way for different threads in your application to send and receive data with each other. However, sharing data between threads introduces the potential for

(TUTORIAL)  Introducing the .NET Platform

By learning about the .NET environment, you can gain an understanding of 
what .NET is and what it means to you. This chapter covers the platform 
issues most essential to building C# applications.

(ARTICLE) Framework Patterns: Exception Handling, Logging, and Tracing

Exception handling is more than just throwing and catching objects in 
.NET. There are many design elements in providing a robust system, and 
providing a sound exception handling, logging, and tracing schema are 
among the first steps. In this chapter from .NET Patterns: Architecture, 
Design, and Process, you'll learn best practices for determining when to 
throw, catch, and ultimately log your errors.

(ARTICLE) Java EE and .NET Security Interoperability

This chapter covers the features of Java and .NET security that make 
interoperability easier. It also discusses different technologies (such as 
authentication in the Presentation tier) and the open standards (such as 
Web services security) where Java and .NET applications can interact. 
Finally, two interoperability strategies are discussed.

Security by Default

(ARTICLE) .NET Common Language Runtime Components

Don Box and Chris Sells discuss modules and assemblies, the component 
building blocks of the CLR, and examine the CLR loader, which allows more 
flexible deployment and versioning and ensures that the component's 
origin cannot be spoofed through the use of public keys and digital 
signatures.

(ARTICLE) Access a Class Member Function Without Creating a Class Object

In some cases, it is possible to call a class member function without creating the class object.
In the following example, the program will print "hello world" although class A has never been created. 

When the program enters the "PrintMe" function, the "this" pointer is zero. This is fine as long as you don't 
access data members through the "this" pointer.