A library is a collection of resources providing data and/or services for developing independent software.
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Fastest C++ XML parsing library
I have thousands of .xml files from size 1MB-45MB (no DTDs). I need to parse and further manipulate these XML files before generating separate .xml files with the results of my regex.
What the ...
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Why aren't more desktop apps written with Qt?
As far as I know and have understood in my experience with Qt, it's a very good and easy to learn library. It has a very well designed API and is cross-platform, and these are just two of the many ...
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Does heavy library and code snippet usage make you a bad programmer?
Overall I'm in programming for about 8 years now and it seems to me that I'm relying more and more on open source libraries and snippets (damn you GitHub!) to "get the job done". I know that in time I ...
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What benefits are there to native JavaScript development?
Given how much simpler jQuery development is, when compared to native JavaScript, what makes people forgo libraries like jQuery altogether?
Is this because jQuery has limitations or it is slow? I ...
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Did C++11 address concerns passing std lib objects between dynamic/shared library boundaries? (ie dlls and so)?
One of my major complaints about C++ is how hard in practice it is to pass std library objects outside of dynamic library (ie dll/so) boundaries.
The std library is often header-only. Which is great ...
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How do you structure your shared code so that it is “re-findable” for new developers?
I started working at my current job about 8 months ago, and its been one of the best experiences I've had as a young programmer. It's a small company, and both my co-developers are brilliant guys.
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Do you tend to write your own name or your company name in your code?
I've been working on various projects at home and at work, and over the years I've developed two main APIs that I use in almost all AJAX based websites. I've compiled both of these into DLLs and ...
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Language-agnostic libs every programmer should consider learning? [closed]
Assuming the language provides it, what are some things to do or libs to use that every programmer should know?
My list would be
Regular Expressions
Named Pipes
standard IO (std in/out/error)
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When to Use Shared Libraries
Note: I'm not sure if this question is more suitable for Stack Overflow or Programmers. The thought process behind putting it here was that it doesn't actually relate to coding itself.
I noticed a ...
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How do I get people to contribute ideas for my .NET library?
I maintain a LGPL library for rapid development of large scale .NET applications, It's a general purpose class library containing functionalities that are used at the DAL and BLL level.
So, in ...
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Non GPL alternative to GhostScript? [closed]
I love the GhostScript library for converting things to pdfs (usually after being printed to postscript). However it's GPL and many organizations don't like it. Are there any comparable libraries ...
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Describing the Difference Between Web Library and Web Framework
I talked myself into a hole at work, and I need some good ideas to help me better describe why we should include both Dojo and Knockout in our new web project.
A little background: I do mostly ...
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Splitting up a single project into libraries
I am working on a project/application that I feel is not very well organized, and parts of it intertwine in different ways. Everything works, but I can see things are not very modular.
Is it ...
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Big project with many external libraries - source code organisation
I was wondering what is the best way to organize my source code. I was researching on SO and found http://stackoverflow.com/a/1398594/137261 but this source code layout is library specific and doesn't ...
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What should and shouldn't be included in a standard library? [closed]
What do you consider to be important features to include in the standard library of a general-purpose programming language? Should it have GUI toolkits and other such larger things? Are cryptography, ...
