Portability issues in using the standard library. An article about portability issues in using the Standard Library by Klaus Kreft and Angelika Langer, published in the C/C++ Users Journal.
Explains how containers of pointers behave, when containers of pointers are useful, and what techniques can be used to manage them. Article by Matthew Austern published in the C/C++ Users Journal.
An article by Matt Austern in the C/C++ Users Journal. This column gives you an idea of what a proposal for hash tables should look like, by presenting a sample proposal.
It's common practice to use assertions to check invariants at runtime, but assertions can be equally useful at compile time for doing things like checking arrays for proper size and order.