A new edition, packed with even more clever tricks and methods that make everyday life easierLifehackers redefine personal productivity with creative and clever methods for making life easier and more enjoyable. This new edition of a perennial bestseller boasts new and exciting tips, tricks, and methods that strike a perfect balance between current technology and common sense solutions for getting things done. Exploring the many ways technology has changed since the previous edition, this new edition has been updated to reflect the latest and greatest in technological and personal productivity.The new "hacks" run the gamut of working with the latest Windows and Mac operating systems for both Windows and Apple, getting more done with smartphones and their operating systems, and dealing with the evolution of the web. Even the most tried-and-true hacks have been updated to reflect the contemporary tech world and the tools it provides us.Hacks include:Hack 1: Empty Your Inbox (and Keep It Empty). Hack 2: Decrease Your Response Time. Hack 3: Craft Effective Messages. Hack 4: Highlight Messages Sent Directly to You. Hack 5: Use Disposable Email Addresses. Hack 6: Master Message Search. Hack 7: Future-Proof Your Email Address. Hack 8: Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses with Gmail. Hack 9: Script and Automate Repetitive Replies. Hack 10: Filter Low-Priority Messages. Hack 11: Organize Your Documents Folder. Hack 12: Instantly Retrieve Files Stored on Your Computer. Hack 13: Overhaul Your Filing Cabinet. Hack 14: Instantly Recall Any Number of Different Passwords. Hack 15: Securely Track Your Passwords. Hack 16: Tag Your Bookmarks. Hack 17: Organize Your Digital Photos. Hack 18: Corral Media Across Folders and Drives. Hack 19: Create Saved Search Folders. Hack 20: Create a Password-Protected Disk on Your PC. Hack 21: Create a Password-Protected Disk on Your Mac. Hack 22: Encrypt Your Entire Windows Operating System. Hack 23: Set Up 2-Step Verification for Your Google Account. Hack 24: Design Your Own Planner. Hack 25: Make Your To-Do List Doable. Hack 26: Set Up a Morning Dash. Hack 27: Map Your Time. Hack 28: Quick-Log Your Workday. Hack 29: Dash Through Tasks with a Timer. Hack 30: Form New Habits with Jerry Seinfeld's Chain. Hack 31: Control Your Workday. Hack 32: Turn Tasks into Game Play. Hack 33: Send Reminders to Your Future Self. Hack 34: Take Great Notes. Hack 35: Organize Your Life with Remember the Milk. Hack 36: Organize Your Life in Text Files. Hack 37: Set Up a Ubiquitous Note-Taking Inbox Across Devices. Hack 38: Off-Load Your Online Reading to a Distraction-Free Environment. Hack 39: Limit Visits to Time-Wasting Websites. Hack 40: Permanently Block Time-Wasting Websites. Hack 41: Reduce Email Interruptions. Hack 42: Split Your Work Among Multiple Desktops. Hack 43: Build a No-Fly Zone. Hack 44: Set Up Communication Quiet Hours. Hack 45: Clear Your Desktop. Hack 46: Make Your House a Usable Home. Hack 47: Sentence Stuff to Death Row. Hack 48: Drown Out Distracting Sounds with Pink Noise. Hack 49: Search the Web in Three Keystrokes. Hack 50: Command Your Windows PC from the Keyboard. Hack 51: Command Your Mac from the Keyboard. Hack 52: Reduce Repetitive Typing with Texter for Windows. Hack 53: Reduce Repetitive Typing with TextExpander for Mac. Hack 54: Automatically Fill in Repetitive Web Forms. Hack 55: Batch-Resize Photos. Hack 56: Bypass Free Site Registration with BugMeNot. Hack 57: Speed Up Web Pages on a Slow Internet Connection. Hack 58: Securely Save Website Passwords. Hack 59: Become a Scheduling Black Belt with Google Calendar. Hack 60: Set Up an Automated, Bulletproof File Back Up Solution. Hack 61: Automatically Back Up Your Files to an External Hard Drive (Mac). Hack 62: Automatically Clean Up Your PC. Hack 63: Automatically Clean Up Your Mac. Hack 64: Automatically Reboot and Launch Applications. Hack 65: Make Google Search Results Automatically Come to You. Hack 66: Automatically Download Music, Movies, and More. Hack 67: Access Your Most Important Files Anywhere with Dropbox. Hack 68: Manage Your Documents in a Web-Based Office Suite. Hack 69: Carry Your Life on a Flash Drive. Hack 70: Create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) with Hamachi. Hack 71: Run a Home Web Server. Hack 72: Run Full-Fledged Webapps from Your Home Computer. Hack 73: Build Your Personal Wikipedia. Hack 74: Remotely Control Your Home Computer. Hack 75: Give Your Home Computer a Web Address. Hack 76: Optimize Your Laptop. Hack 77: Speed Up Your Touchscreen Typing. Hack 78: Break Down the Barrier Between Your Computer and Mobile Phone. Hack 79: Remote Control Your Computer with Your Phone. Hack 80: Automate Android Functions with Tasker. Hack 81: Set Up One Phone Number to Rule Them All. Hack 82: Augment Reality with Your Phone. Hack 83: Remember Where You’ve Been Using Location Awareness. Hack 84: Command Your Phone with Your Voice. Hack 85: Use Your Camera Phone as a Scanner. Hack 86: Make Your "Dumbphone" Smarter via Text Message. Hack 87: Connect Your Computer to the Internet via Mobile Phone by "Tethering". Hack 88: Develop Your (Digital) Photographic Memory. Hack 89: Send and Receive Money on Your Mobile Phone with PayPal. Hack 90: Google Like a Pro. Hack 91: Subscribe to Websites with RSS. Hack 92: Quickly Search Within Specific Websites from the Address Bar. Hack 93: Extend Your Web Browser. Hack 94: Supercharge Your Firefox Downloads with DownThemAll! Hack 95: Get 10 Useful Bookmarklets. Hack 96: Find Reusable Media Online. Hack 97: Get Your Data on a Map. Hack 98: Set Multiple Sites as Your Home Page. Hack 99: Access Unavailable Websites via Google. Hack 100: Have a Say in What Google Says About You. Hack 101: Clear Your Web Browsing Tracks. Hack 102: Rescue Your PC from Malware. Hack 103: Protect Your PC from Malware. Hack 104: Clean Up Your Startup. Hack 105: Undo System Configuration Changes. Hack 106: Truly Delete Data from Your Hard Drive. Hack 107: Compare and Merge Files and Folders with WinMerge. Hack 108: Firewall Your Windows PC. Hack 109: Firewall Your Mac. Hack 110: Speed Up Windows with a Thumb Drive. Hack 111: Free Up Hard-Drive Space. Hack 112: Resurrect Deleted Files. Hack 113: Hot Image Your PC for Instant Restoration. Hack 114: Hot Image Your Mac for Instant Restoration. Hack 115: Recover Files from an Unbootable PC. Hack 116: Share Windows Files. Hack 117: Share Mac Files. Hack 118: Keep Your Web Browser in Sync Across Computers. Hack 119: Share a Single Printer Between Computers. Hack 120: Optimize Your Dual Monitors. Hack 121: Control Multiple Computers with a Single Keyboard and Mouse.Technology is supposed to make our lives easier by helping us work more efficiently. Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better, Third Edition is your guide to making that happen!

The authors present the complete guide to ANSI standard C language programming. Written by the developers of C, this new version helps readers keep up with the finalized ANSI standard for C while showing how to take advantage of C's rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control flow, and data structures. The 2/E has been completely rewritten with additional examples and problem sets to clarify the implementation of difficult language constructs. For years, C programmers have let K&R guide them to building well-structured and efficient programs. Now this same help is available to those working with ANSI compilers. Includes detailed coverage of the C language plus the official C language reference manual for at-a-glance help with syntax notation, declarations, ANSI changes, scope rules, and the list goes on and on.

Take your Excel skills to the next level with VBA programmingNow that you've mastered Excel basics, it's time to move to the next level—creating your own, customized Excel 2010 solutions using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The new edition of this non-threatening guide is your key to getting there. Using step-by-step instruction and the accessible, friendly For Dummies style, this practical book shows you how to use VBA, write macros, customize your Excel apps to look and work the way you want, avoid errors, and more.The book's Web site provides all the programming examples from the book.Introduces you to a new range of Excel 2010 optionsShows you how to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to program your own custom Excel applications or to automate functionsExplains how to create VBA macros, program, handle errors, debug, and moreCovers Visual Basic Editor tools and functions; working with range objects; controlling program flow; and the easiest ways to create custom dialog boxes, toolbars, and menusIncludes a companion Web site with all the sample programs from the bookCreate your own, custom Excel programs with this information-packed guide!Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Laminated quick reference card showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for how to use calendar, contacts, and tasks features of Microsoft Office Outlook 2010. This guide is suitable as a training handout, or simply an easy to use reference guide, for any type of user.The following topics are included:Calendar: Setting up Your Work Week; Viewing the Calendar; Creating Appointments; Repeating Appointments or Meetings; Creating, Scheduling and Editing Meetings; Responding to Meeting Requests; Changing Time or Date of Meeting/Appointment; Viewing Multiple Calendars; Creating and Using Calendar Groups; Printing the Calendar.Contacts: Creating&Editing Contacts, Sending a Mail Message to a Contact, Searching for Contacts, Merging Contacts with Word.Tasks: Displaying To-Do and Task List Folders, Creating Tasks, Marking Complete, Adding Messages or Contacts to the To-Do List, Sorting Tasks, Changing Task Order, Assigning Tasks, Viewing Tasks in the Calendar, Hiding /Displaying Tasks in the To-Do Bar, Printing TasksFor Any Outlook Item: Deleting, Assigning an Item to a Category, Sorting by Category, Sorting Items, Creating a New Calendar/Contact/ Task Folder, Sharing Calendar Contacts Tasks or Notes using an Exchange Server, Using Another Person's Calendar Contacts Tasks or Notes Folder, Responding to a Sharing Request, Using the Reading Pane. This guide is one of several titles available for Outlook 2010: What s New in Outlook 2010 from 2003, Outlook 2010 Mail, Outlook 2010 Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2010.

The ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 4. In this third edition, the core model-view-controller (MVC) architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but are demonstrated in action. You’ll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you’ll discover MVC’s strengths and weaknesses for yourself—and put your best-learned theory into practice. The book's authors Steve Sanderson and Adam Freeman have both watched the growth of ASP.NET MVC since its first release. Steve is a well-known blogger on the MVC Framework and a member of the Microsoft Web Platform and Tools team. Adam started designing and building web applications 15 years ago and has been responsible for some of the world's largest and most ambitious projects. You can be sure you are in safe hands. What you’ll learn Gain a solid architectural understanding of ASP.NET MVC 3, including basic MVC Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework See how MVC and test-driven development work in action Capitalize on your existing knowledge quickly and easily through comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC Learn about the latest security and deployment issues, including those related to IIS 7 Who this book is for This book is for web developers with a basic knowledge of ASP.NET and C# who want (or need) to start using the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework. Table of ContentsPart 1 1. The Big Idea 2. Getting Ready 3. Your First MVC Application 4. The MVC Pattern 5. Essential Language Features 6. Essential Tools for MVC 7. SportsStore I – A Real Application 8. SportsStore II – Navigation&Cart 9. SportsStore III - Administration Part 2 10. Overview of MVC projects 11. URLs, Routing&Areas 12. Controllers&Actions 13. Filters 14. Controller Extensibility 15. Views 16. Model Templates 17. Model Binding 18. Model Validation 19. Unobtrusive Ajax 20. jQuery Part 3. 21. Security 22. Authentication&Authorization 23. Deployment

Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to manage your projects with Project 2010. With Step By Step, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Topics include building a project plan and fine-tuning the details; scheduling tasks, assigning resources, and managing dependencies; monitoring progress and costs; keeping projects on track; communicating project data through Gantt charts and other views.

The first edition of this book was released at the 2001 Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. At that time, the .NET platform was still a beta product, and in many ways, so was this book. This is not to say that the early editions of this text did not have merit—after all, the book was a 2002 Jolt Award finalist and it won the 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award. However, over the years that author Andrew Troelsen spent working with the common language runtime (CLR), he gained a much deeper understanding of the .NET platform and the subtleties of the C# programming language, and he feels that this fifth edition of the book is as close to a “final release” as he’s come yet. This new edition has been comprehensively revised and rewritten to make it accurately reflect the C# 4 language specification for the .NET 4 platform. You’ll find new chapters covering the important concepts of dynamic lookups, named and optional arguments, Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), improved COM interop, and variance for generics. If you’re checking out this book for the first time, do understand that it's targeted at experienced software professionals and/or graduate students of computer science (so don't expect three chapters on iteration or decision constructs!). The mission of this text is to provide you with a rock-solid foundation in the C# programming language and the core aspects of the .NET platform (assemblies, remoting, Windows Forms, Web Forms, ADO.NET, XML web services, etc.). Once you digest the information presented in these 25 chapters, you’ll be in a perfect position to apply this knowledge to your specific programming assignments, and you’ll be well equipped to explore the .NET universe on your own terms. What you’ll learn Be the first to understand the .NET 4 platform and Visual C# 2010. Discover the ins and outs of the leading .NET technology. Learn from an award-winning author who has been teaching the .NET world since version 1.0. Find complete coverage of the WPF, WCF, and WF foundations that support the core .NET platform. Who this book is for This book is for anyone with some software development experience who is interested in the new .NET Framework 4 and the C# language. Whether you are moving to .NET for the first time or are already writing applications on .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.5, this book will provide you with a comprehensive grounding in the new technology and serve as a complete reference throughout your coding career. Table of Contents The Philosophy of NET Building C# Applications Core C# Programming Constructs, Part I Core C# Programming Constructs, Part II Defining Encapsulated Class Types Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism Understanding Structured Exception Handling Understanding Object Lifetime Working with Interfaces Understanding Generics Delegates, Events, and Lambdas Advanced C# Language Features LINQ to Objects Configuring NET Assemblies Type Reflection, Late Binding, and Attribute-Based Prog Processes, AppDomains, and Object Contexts Understanding CIL and the Role of Dynamic Assemblies Dynamic Types and the Dynamic Language Runtime Multithreaded and Parallel Programming File I/O and Object Serialization ADO.NET Part I: The Connected Layer ADO.NET Part II: The Disconnected Layer ADO.NET Part III: The Entity Framework Introducing LINQ to XML Introducing Windows Communication Foundation Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation 40 Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML Programming with WPF Controls WPF Graphics Rendering Services WPF Resources, Animations, and Styles WPF Control Templates and UserControls Building ASP.NET Web Pages ASP.NET Web Controls, Master Pages and Theme ASP.NET State Management Techniques

Laminated quick reference card showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for how to use tables, PivotTables, sorting and filtering features in Microsoft Office Excel 2010. This guide is suitable as a training handout, or simply an easy to use reference guide, for any type of user.The following topics are covered:Excel Tables: Creating an Excel Table, Changing the Table Area, Adding a New Row or Column to the Table, Deleting a Table Row or Column, Turning On/Off the Total Row, Changing the Total Row, Convert a Table to a Normal Range, Using a Normal Range for Sorting, Filtering, Subtotals, and PivotTables, Removing Duplicates, Structured References in Excel Tables.PivotTables: Creating a PivotTable or PivotChart Report, Show/Hide the PivotTable Field List, Adding/Removing a PivotTable Field, Refreshing a PivotTable, Rearranging a PivotTable, Adding a PivotChart to an Existing PivotTable, Changing the Summary Function, Changing How Values are Shown, Sorting in a PivotTable, Grouping by Dates or Time, Filtering PivotTables and Charts with Slicers. Sorting&Filtering: Basic Sorting, Complex Sorting, Re-applying a Sort, Creating a Custom List, Creating a Custom List from Cell Data, Sorting Using a Custom List, Filtering and Advanced Filtering, Show/Hide AutoFilter, Searching for Filter Criteria in AutoFilter, Criteria for Advanced Filters, Using Advanced Filters/Copying Filtered Data to Another Range, Selecting /Ordering Columns, Filter/Copy Unique Rows, Clearing Filtering and Sorting, Subtotals.This guide is one of several titles available for Excel 2010: Excel 2010 Introduction; Excel 2010 Tables, PivotTables, Sorting&Filtering; Advanced&Macros; Charts&Sparklines; Functions&Formulas.

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to build rich and interactive web sites that run on the Microsoft platform. With the knowledge you gain from this book, you create a great foundation to build any type of web site, ranging from simple hobby-related web sites to sites you may be creating for commercial purposes.Anyone new to web programming should be able to follow along because no prior background in web development is assumed although it helps if you do have a basic understanding of HTML and the web in general. The book starts at the very beginning of web development by showing you how to obtain and install Visual Web Developer. The chapters that follow gradually introduce you to new technologies, building on top of the knowledge gained in the previous chapters.Do you have a strong preference for Visual Basic over C# or the other way around? Or do you think both languages are equally cool? Or maybe you haven't made up your mind yet and want to learn both languages? Either way, you'll like this book because all code examples are presented in both languages!Even if you have some experience with prior versions of ASP.NET, you may gain a lot from this book. Although many concepts from previous versions are brought forward into ASP.NET 4, you'll discover there's a lot of new stuff to be found in this book, including an introduction to the ADO.NET Entity Framework, the inclusion of jQuery, ASP.NET AJAX, the many changes to the ASP.NET 4 Framework, and much more.This book teaches you how to create a feature-rich, data-driven, and interactive web site called Planet Wrox. Although this is quite a mouthful, you'll find that with Visual Web Developer 2010, developing such a web site isn't as hard as it seems. You'll see the entire process of building a web site, from installing Visual Web Developer 2010 in Chapter 1 all the way up to putting your web application on a live server in Chapter 19. The book is divided into 19 chapters, each dealing with a specific subject.Chapter 1, “Getting Started with ASP.NET 4” shows you how to obtain and install Visual Web Developer 2010. You'll get instructions for downloading and installing the free edition of Visual Web Developer 2010, called the Express edition. You are also introduced to HTML, the language behind every web page. The chapter closes with an overview of the customization options that Visual Web Developer gives you.Chapter 2, “Building an ASP.NET Web Site” shows you how to create a new web site and how to add new elements like pages to it. Besides learning how to create a well-structured site, you also see how to use the numerous tools in Visual Web Developer to create HTML and ASP.NET pages.Chapter 3, “Designing Your Web Pages.” Visual Web Developer comes with a host of tools that allow you to create well-designed and attractive web pages. In this chapter, you see how to make good use of these tools. Additionally, you learn about CSS, the language that is used to format web pages.Chapter 4, “Working with ASP.NET Server Controls.” ASP.NET Server Controls are one of the most important concepts in ASP.NET. They allow you to create complex and feature-rich web sites with very little code. This chapter introduces you to the large number of server controls that are available, explains what they are used for, and shows you how to use them.Chapter 5, “Programming Your ASP.NET Web Pages.” Although the built-in CSS tools and the ASP.NET Server Controls can get you a long way in creating web pages, you are likely to use a programming language to enhance your pages. This chapter serves as an introduction to programming with a strong focus on programming web pages. Best of all: all the examples you see in this chapter (and the rest of the book) are in both Visual Basic and C#, so you can choose the language you like best.Chapter 6, “Creating Consistent Looking Web Sites.” ASP.NET helps you create consistent-looking pages through the use of master pages, which allow you to define the global look and feel of a page. Skins and themes help you to centralize the looks of controls and other visual elements in your site. You also see how to create a base page that helps to centralize programming code that you need on all pages in your site.Chapter 7, “Navigation.” To help your visitors find their way around your site, ASP.NET comes with a number of navigation controls. These controls are used to build the navigation structure of your site. They can be connected to your site's central site map that defines the pages in your web site. You also learn how to programmatically send users from one page to another.Chapter 8, “User Controls.” User controls are reusable page fragments that can be used in multiple web pages. As such, they are great for repeating content such as menus, banners, and so on. In this chapter, you learn how to create and use user controls and enhance them with some programmatic intelligence.Chapter 9, “Validating User Input.” A large part of interactivity in your site is defined by the input of your users. This chapter shows you how to accept, validate, and process user input using ASP.NET Server Controls. Additionally, you see how to send e-mail from your ASP.NET web application and how to read from text files.Chapter 10, “ASP.NET AJAX.” Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX allows you to create good-looking, flicker-free web pages that close the gap between traditional desktop applications and web applications. In this chapter you learn how to use the built-in Ajax features to enhance the presence of your web pages, resulting in a smoother interaction with the web site.Chapter 11, “jQuery.” jQuery is a popular, open source and cross-browser JavaScript library designed to make it easier to interact with web pages in the client’s browser. In this chapter you learn the basics of jQuery and see how to add rich visual effects and animations to your web pages.Chapter 12, “Introducing Databases.” Understanding how to use a database is critical to building web sites, as most modern web sites require the use of a database. You’ll learn the basics of SQL, the query language that allows you to access and alter data in a database. In addition, you are introduced to the database tools found in Visual Web Developer that help you create and manage your SQL Server databases.Chapter 13, “Displaying and Updating Data.” Building on the knowledge you gained in the previous chapter, this chapter shows you how to use the ASP.NET data-bound and data source controls to create a rich interface that enables your users to interact with the data in the database that these controls target.Chapter 14, “LINQ and the ADO.NET Entity Framework.” LINQ is Microsoft’s solution for accessing objects, databases, XML, and more. The ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft's new technology for database access. This chapter shows you what LINQ is all about, how to use the visual EF designer built into Visual Studio, and how to write LINQ to EF queries to get data in and out of your SQL Server database.Chapter 15, “Working with Data—Advanced Topics.” While earlier chapters focused mostly on the technical foundations of working with data, this chapter looks at the same topic from a front-end perspective. You see how to change the visual appearance of your data through the use of control styles. You also see how to interact with the data-bound controls and how to speed up your application by keeping a local copy of frequently accessed data.Chapter 16, “Security in Your ASP.NET 4 Web Site.” Although presented quite late in the book, security is a first-class, important topic. This chapter shows you how to make use of the built-in ASP.NET features related to security. You learn about a number of application services that facilitate security. You also learn how to let users sign up for an account on your web site, how to distinguish between anonymous and logged-on users, and how to manage the users in your system.Chapter 17, “Personalizing Web Sites.” Building on the security features introduced in Chapter 16, this chapter shows you how to create personalized web pages with content targeted at individual users. You see how to configure and use ASP.NET Profile that enables you to store personalized data for known and anonymous visitors.Chapter 18, “Exception Handling, Debugging, and Tracing.” In order to understand, improve, and fix the code you write for your ASP.NET web pages you need good debugging tools. Visual Web Developer ships with great debugging support that enables you to diagnose the state of your application at run time, helping you find and fix problems before your users do.Chapter 19, “Deploying Your Web Site.” By the end of the book, you should have a web site that is ready to be shown to the world. But how exactly do you do that? What are the things you need to know and understand to put your web site out in the wild? This chapter gives the answers and provides you with a good look at configuring different production systems in order to run your final web site.Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

“Every C++ professional needs a copy of Effective C++. It is an absolute must-read for anyone thinking of doing serious C++ development. If you’ve never read Effective C++ and you think you know everything about C++, think again.”— Steve Schirripa, Software Engineer, Google “C++ and the C++ community have grown up in the last fifteen years, and the third edition of Effective C++ reflects this. The clear and precise style of the book is evidence of Scott’s deep insight and distinctive ability to impart knowledge.”— Gerhard Kreuzer, Research and Development Engineer, Siemens AG The first two editions of Effective C++ were embraced by hundreds of thousands of programmers worldwide. The reason is clear: Scott Meyers’ practical approach to C++ describes the rules of thumb used by the experts — the things they almost always do or almost always avoid doing — to produce clear, correct, efficient code. The book is organized around 55 specific guidelines, each of which describes a way to write better C++. Each is backed by concrete examples. For this third edition, more than half the content is new, including added chapters on managing resources and using templates. Topics from the second edition have been extensively revised to reflect modern design considerations, including exceptions, design patterns, and multithreading. Important features of Effective C++ include: Expert guidance on the design of effective classes, functions, templates, and inheritance hierarchies. Applications of new “TR1” standard library functionality, along with comparisons to existing standard library components. Insights into differences between C++ and other languages (e.g., Java, C#, C) that help developers from those languages assimilate “the C++ way” of doing things.