The Most Popular Articles of 2008

Monday, 05 January 2009

Five days into 2009, here's a list of the 10 most popular articles on the Just Software Solutions website for 2008. There's a few entries still there from last year (in particular, last year's most top entry on CSS menus is now number 2), but mostly it's new content. In 2008 I focused much more on C++0x and concurrency, and the list of popular articles reflects that.

Implementing a Thread-Safe Queue using Condition Variables
A description of the issues around writing a thread-safe queue, with code.
Implementing drop-down menus in pure CSS (no JavaScript)
How to implement drop-down menus in CSS in a cross-browser fashion (with a teensy bit of JavaScript for IE).
10 Years of Programming with POSIX Threads
A review of "Programming with POSIX Threads" by David Butenhof, 10 years after publication.
Thread Interruption in the Boost Thread Library
A description of the thread interruption feature of the Boost Thread library.
Introduction to C++ Templates (PDF)
How to use and write C++ templates.
Memory Models and Synchronization
A brief description of the relaxed memory orderings of the C++0x memory model
Deadlock Detection with just::thread
How to use the just::thread C++0x thread library to detect the origin of deadlocks in your code.
Rvalue References and Perfect Forwarding in C++0x
An introduction to the new rvalue reference feature of C++0x.
October 2008 C++ Standards Committee Mailing - New C++0x Working Paper, More Concurrency Papers Approved
My summary of the October 2008 C++ committee mailing featuring the first feature-complete draft of the C++0x standard.
Condition Variable Spurious Wakes
An introduction to the consequences of the so-called "spurious wakes" that you can get with condition variables, and how to handle them.