Programming Topics or Overload Journal #123 - October 2014
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The Global Lockdown of Locks

Bob Schmidt

01 August 2020 18:08:13 +01:00

Locks can be replaced with tasks. Lucian Radu Teodorescu shows us how.

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The Standard Report

Bob Schmidt

03 November 2019 18:14:18 +00:00

Guy Davidson reports from the C++ Standards Committee.

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The Duality…

Bob Schmidt

02 April 2019 22:59:07 +01:00

Genetic algorithms can find solutions that other algorithms might miss. Anders Modén discusses their use in conjunction with back-propagation for finding better solutions.

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The Ghost of a Codebase Past

Bob Schmidt

09 September 2018 22:05:13 +01:00

Pete Goodliffe learns lessons by reviewing his own old code.

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Type-agnostic Tracing Using {fmt}

Bob Schmidt

03 June 2018 17:07:06 +01:00

Tracing compound and custom types is a challenge. Mike Crowe demonstrates how {fmt} provides a safe alternative to printf.

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The New C++ Interview

Bob Schmidt

09 May 2018 18:07:29 +01:00

Pete Goodliffe introduces a new way to test programming skills.

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The Expressive C++ Coding Challenge in D

Bob Schmidt

06 March 2018 16:22:44 +00:00

Sebastian Wilzbach presents a D language solution to a C++ problem.

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Testing Times (Part 1)

Bob Schmidt

05 January 2018 17:35:11 +00:00

Pete Goodliffe explores how to test code to ensure it works as expected.

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The Last Word in Patterns

Bob Schmidt

04 December 2017 22:36:34 +00:00

What can you do in a single transaction in a database? Paul Grenyer writes us his Single CrUD pattern.

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Thonny: Python IDE for Beginners

Bob Schmidt

08 September 2017 16:43:12 +01:00

Silas S. Brown introduces a new Python IDE.

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The Importance of Back-of-Envelope Estimates

Martin Moene

05 February 2017 15:55:06 +00:00

Guestimate questions make many people grumble. Sergey Ignatchenko reminds us why they matter.

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Turnabout is Fair Play

Martin Moene

07 January 2017 21:10:04 +00:00

Baron M is still game for a wager.

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The MirAL Story

Martin Moene

08 December 2016 11:55:35 +00:00

The X-Windows system is all-pervasive but struggles with security and performance graphics. Alan Griffiths introduces Mir Abstraction Layer to deal with these issues.

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Testing Propositions

Martin Moene

02 August 2016 22:17:25 +01:00

Is testing propositions more important than having examples as exemplars? Russel Winder considers this hypothesis.

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Testing Private

Martin Moene

07 July 2016 20:49:56 +01:00

Paul Grenyer shows that testing doesn’t need public access.

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The Codealow

Martin Moene

06 July 2016 20:51:56 +01:00

Pete Goodliffe presents a new software soliloquy.

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The Tao of Scratch

Martin Moene

09 April 2016 21:27:05 +01:00

Scratch is an environment designed to help young people learn to code. Patrick Martin walks us through it.

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Template Programming Compile Time Combinations & Sieves

Martin Moene

04 February 2016 18:50:45 +00:00

Functional style frequently uses sequences. Nick Weatherhead applies these ideas to combinations in C++.

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Type Mosaicing with Consultables and Delegates

Martin Moene

05 December 2015 09:40:18 +00:00

If several classes need to work together lots of boilerplate code is often needed. Nicolas Bouillot introduces type mosaicing to avoid this.

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The Universality and Expressiveness of std::accumulate

Martin Moene

04 December 2015 09:43:44 +00:00

Folding is a highly generic operation available through std::accumulate. Paul Keir goes beyond reduction, with the help of C++14’s polymorphic lambdas.


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