Here's my situation: I have a template for a virtual class, with one templated friend global function, and one pure virtual function which the global function tries to call through a pointer to the ...

My background is in web design and web development. I have a non-CS college degree, and very little formal programming training. I am, however, a competent and capable web developer. After doing that ...

Inheritance is a common pattern in object-oriented programming, but it’s not easily replicated in a database. This Java tip shows you how to model inheritance relationships in JPA with Hibernate.

Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...