Certain kinds of business computer files, such as Microsoft Word documents, multimedia files and ZIP archives, carry important information in the data bytes nearest the file's beginning; software ...

When creating and maintaining your company's website, you can minimize time spent on coding by thinking about what sorts of things are repeated on your website, such as a header that contains banner ...

Displaying custom fonts or images on an LCD screen using a microcontroller usually requires quite a bit of work. We’ve used some readily available tools to make this a bit easier for your next project ...

In C programming, a source code file that contains common definitions and data structures that all programmers may use as required. Also called "include files," because the #include statement is used ...

[Chris Hulbert] is making it easy for Arduino users to program MSP430 chips with a header file that allows you to compile Arduino sketches for the Launchpad. This makes sense, as the growing number of ...

Last week I wrote about good practices in writing comment headers for source code files. Several readers wrote asking for my thoughts on headers for functions. I recommend reading code. Lots of code.

Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...