[SoftwareMaven]

I don't know. I was a C++ coder 15 years ago, left for managed languages, then came back to it a couple years ago. Rusty would be an understatement, so I had to come at it in what may be a worse state than a noob: a person with outdated knowledge of how things work.

If you looked at all for "best practices", things like RIAA, stl/boost, and other concepts became very clear, very quickly, and these are the types of thing that limit these kinds of bugs (RIAA, in particular). Now, to be fair, I was writing crypto-related software, so I was paying very close attention, but I didn't really have to hunt.

[delian66]

Perhaps you meant RAII [1] ?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initial...