The intention is to provide simple, free access to usable solutions to common but difficult programming problems, presenting 'usage', rather than 'how' (no maths), 'who' (no name-dropping) or 'when' (no history).

The lumps of code on this site should be educational as well as stopping experts from having to re-invent the wheel all the time. The focus is on providing the lumps, usage and keeping everything simple. Developing code knowing that it'll be published on this site helps the developer keep code lumpy and clear. Keeping things simple (particularly debugging) by minimising the extents of the programming language results in only using templates where absolutely necessary and not using the Standard Template Library (STL) at all.

Feel free to use the Feedback link at the top of every page to report about bugs or ask for pages to be rephrased or extended. If you have other or better code and are willing to share, be aware that this site does no name-dropping: when you have a snack bar or get into a car, you don't get told who put the nuts in (the exception being methods that take the name of the award-winning inventor)!