C#

Android Operating System: One Potential Vulnerability per 4000 Lines of C++ Code

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For many years, Andrey Karpov has been publishing articles on code quality, and bugs reviews of open source projects. For example, he is the author of such publications as “The Ultimate Question of Programming, Refactoring, and Everything” and “27 000 Errors in the Tizen Operating System“.

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Recently, the open source Android operating system has become of interest for him. He researched that part of the operating system code, which is written in the C and C++ languages. After that he came to a conclusion, which always takes place after such research: human error is always possible. By using the PVS-Studio tool, it becomes possible to detect at least one security defect (potential vulnerability) per 4000 lines of code.

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Static Analysis in Video Game Development: Top 10 Software Bugs

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If you are a software developer working in the video game industry and wondering what else you could do to improve the quality of your product or make the development process easier and you don’t use static analysis – it’s just the right time to start doing so. You doubt that? OK, I’ll try to convince you. And if you are just looking to see what coding mistakes are common with video-game and game-engine developers, then you’re, again, at the right place: I have picked the most interesting ones for you.

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Search for Bugs in Code at the Early Stage

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Every developer knows about a debugger, version control system or, for example, unit-tests. Nevertheless, not all developers are familiar with the methodology of static code analysis. Meanwhile, the technology becomes an integral part of the development cycle of programs. I would like to suggest a small introductory course for anyone interested in modern development trends.

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Book pack of free books on C# language

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C# – is an object oriented language of programming, created in 1998–2001 by Microsoft company as a language of application development for Microsoft .NET Framework platform. It combines a strength and flexibility of C++ with a simplicity of Visual Basic. You will find the book pack below, which will help you learn this programming language.


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Safe Clearing of Private Data

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We often need to store private data in programs, for example passwords, secret keys, and their derivatives, and we usually need to clear their traces in the memory after using them so that a potential intruder can’t gain access to these data. In this article we will discuss why you can’t clear private data using memset() function.

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The long arrow operator in C++

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Sometimes, we need to create wrapper types. For example, types like unique_ptr, shared_ptr, optional and similar.

Usually, these types have an accessor member function called .get but they also provide the operator-> to support direct access to the contained value similarly to what ordinary pointers do.
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