Serialization is the process of taking structures and objects along with their states and converting them to data that is reproducable with any computer environment. There are many ways to do this - it can be a struggle to figure out something that consistantly works. Here I will talk about a pattern or method I like to call pupping, and it is very similar to the method boost uses for its serialization library. Pup stands for pack-unpack, and so pupping is packing/unpacking.
