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Beneath the Vortals
Using Internet procurement automation tools and techniques to buy operating resources can reduce costs, often achieving 300 percent return on investment (ROI) for the buying organization. Because of this, buyers and suppliers with different procurement and catalog systems must find ways to interoperate effectively. Three standards are emerging to try to solve this problem.
Code Generation Templates Using XML and XSL
XML is indisputably the long-awaited linguafranca for defining and transmitting structured data. With a little help from XSL, it can also generate C++ code for you.
New Bases, Part 1
Converting a text-represented number from one base to another is pretty simple. But how extensible and reusable can the solution be to solve more than one problem, when there are also additional requirements?
An Iostream-Compatible Socket Wrapper
With suitable scaffolding, writing to a socket is as easy as cout << "Hello, world";.
Generic: Typed Buffers (III)
In his final installment on typed buffers, Alexandrescu looks at copying and moving objects and offers some helpful solutions for getting around portable C and C++'s suboptimal memory allocation.
Audio Watermarking 
Digital watermarking is a security technique that provides copy protection, authentication, and more for audio and other forms of information. The approach Michael presents here is based on a statistical algorithm working in the Fourier domain. - Web Development
Sutter's Mill: The String Formatters of Manor Farm
There is more than one way to "string" an integer. Find your favorite here.
From Mechanism to Method: Generic Decoupling
Is it possible to be too well connected? Is it possible to be too eager to please? If we are talking about code, the answer is "yes." Low coupling and high cohesion are useful and practical properties of code, not just abstract academic concepts. In practice code that is clear in its purpose and low in its dependencies is generally easier to work with than code that attempts to include everything and please everyone. This month's column explores four core approaches to decoupling a C++ system, with a particular focus on the perhaps surprising role that templates can play.
Conversations: Hungarian wartHogs
What's in a name? Plenty, if you use Hungarian notation. Too much, if you use Hungarian notation.?
