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Making a Linux Desktop

Bob Schmidt

08 September 2020 18:46:41 +01:00

Alan Griffiths adds support for shell components to the desktop environment.

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Making a Linux Desktop – Launching Applications

Bob Schmidt

03 March 2020 23:03:18 +00:00

Alan Griffiths continues his series on the Mir desktop.

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Making a Linux Desktop: Painting Some Wallpaper

Bob Schmidt

04 November 2019 18:17:17 +00:00

Alan Griffiths continues his series on coding with the Mir library.

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Making a Linux Desktop

Bob Schmidt

07 September 2019 17:27:40 +01:00

Alan Griffiths illustrates how to get started with Mir.

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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (part 1 of N)

Bob Schmidt

03 April 2019 23:17:07 +01:00

SAT solvers can quickly find solutions to Boolean Logic problems. Martin Hořeňovský demonstrates how this can be used to solve arbitrary Sudoku puzzles.

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Memory Management Patterns in Business-Level Programs

Bob Schmidt

05 December 2018 16:31:04 +00:00

There are many memory management patterns. Sergey Ignatchenko considers these from an application level.

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Measuring Throughput and the Impact of Cache-line Awareness

Bob Schmidt

02 December 2018 16:06:26 +00:00

How do you measure throughput? Richard Reich and Wesley Maness investigate suitable metrics.

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miso: Micro Signal/Slot Implementation

Bob Schmidt

05 August 2018 18:45:43 +01:00

The Observer pattern has many existing implementations. Deák Ferenc presents a new implementation using modern C++ techniques.

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Monitoring: Turning Noise into Signal

Bob Schmidt

05 April 2018 16:51:10 +01:00

Creating useful logging is a constant challenge. Chris Oldwood shows us how structured logging helps.

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Marking Benches

Bob Schmidt

07 October 2017 20:03:21 +01:00

Too slow! Russel Winder reminds us that benchmarking code performance is a complicated issue.

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Metaclasses: Thoughts on Generative C++

Bob Schmidt

06 August 2017 00:53:48 +01:00

Can you simplify C++ with minimal library extension? Herb Sutter shows how metaclasses could make this possible.

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Myths about ‘Big Data’

Martin Moene

07 May 2017 09:19:03 +01:00

Reginald Garnepudi dispels some of the hype around one popular technology.

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Mean Properties

Martin Moene

06 February 2017 15:53:50 +00:00

Property based testing is all the rage. Russel Winder walks us through an example of properties an arithmetic mean function should have.

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Multiprocessing and Clusters in Python

Martin Moene

04 February 2017 15:56:37 +00:00

Multiprocessing is possible in Python. Silas S. Brown shows us various ways.

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Modern C++ Features: User-Defined Literals

Martin Moene

05 December 2016 20:43:14 +00:00

User-defined literals were introduced in C++11. Arne Mertz walks us through their use.

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Multi-threading at Business-logic Level is Considered Harmful

Martin Moene

05 August 2015 13:10:58 +01:00

Multi-threaded code promises potential speed-up. Sergey Ignatchenko considers how it often slows things down instead.

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Meet the Social Side of Your Codebase

Martin Moene

06 June 2015 10:23:57 +01:00

Programming requires collaboration. Adam Tornhill suggests some ways to uncover communication paths in your organisation.

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Mocks are Bad, Layers are Bad

Martin Moene

05 June 2015 10:26:09 +01:00

Many people use mocks in their unit tests. Andy Balaam asks if there’s a better way.

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Make and Forward Consultables and Delegates

Martin Moene

01 June 2015 10:32:45 +01:00

Sometimes forwarding to a contained object requires lots of boilerplate code. Nicolas Bouillot introduces consultables and delegates to automate this.

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Making a Tool of Deception

Martin Moene

06 February 2015 18:27:08 +00:00

Is it possible to use modern C++ to make mocking easy? Björn Fahller introduces Trompeloeil, a header-only mocking framework for C++14.


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