Design of applications and programs or Overload Journal #95 - February 2010
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An Example Confined User Shell

Bob Schmidt

01 August 2020 17:51:32 +01:00

Snap confinement is not just for individual apps but can be applied to a complete GUI environment. Alan Griffiths demonstrates with the Mircade shell.

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A Secure Environment for Running Apps?

Bob Schmidt

02 February 2020 18:31:30 +00:00

Getting apps from the app store is easy. Alan Griffiths considers this from a security perspective.

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Afterwood

Bob Schmidt

01 December 2019 16:46:15 +00:00

We are aware of the film Get Carter. Chris Oldwood asks if it should be called Acquire Carter instead.

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A Low-Latency Logging Framework

Bob Schmidt

05 August 2019 22:21:46 +01:00

Logging can be a bottleneck in systems. Wesley Maness and Richard Reich demonstrate a low-latency logging framework that avoids common problems.

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A Small Universe

Bob Schmidt

05 February 2019 17:21:07 +00:00

Writing a programming language is a hot topic. Deák Ferenc shows us how he wrote a compiler for bytecode callable from C++.

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A Small Universe Part II

Bob Schmidt

05 February 2019 16:36:55 +00:00

Writing a programming language is a hot topic. Deák Ferenc shows us how he wrote a compiler for bytecode callable from C++.

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A Thorough Introduction to Distributed Systems

Bob Schmidt

03 February 2019 17:01:54 +00:00

What is a distributed system, and why is it so complicated? Stanislav Kozlovski explains.

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Afterwood

Bob Schmidt

01 August 2018 18:26:35 +01:00

Much ado about nothing. Chris Oldwood considers what we have when we have nothing.

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A Wider Vision of Software Development

Bob Schmidt

08 February 2018 17:02:42 +00:00

Is code a hopeful arrangement of bytes? Charles Tolman brings his Organising Principles series to a close.

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An MWSR Queue with Minimalist Locking

Bob Schmidt

07 February 2018 16:45:17 +00:00

Multithreaded queues come in many flavours. Sergey Ignatchenko describes his implementation of a multiple writer single reader queue.

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A Design Example

Bob Schmidt

05 December 2017 22:38:53 +00:00

Design issues cause problems. Charles Tolman considers an organising principle to get to the heart of the matter.

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A New Competition

Bob Schmidt

02 September 2017 16:11:08 +01:00

Francis Glassborow presents a new challenge for CVu readers.

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A Usable C++ Dialect that is Safe Against Memory Corruption

Bob Schmidt

07 August 2017 00:55:27 +01:00

Suitable allocators for (Re)Actors can speed things up. Sergey Ignatchenko continues his investigation in Allocator for (Re)Actors (Part 2).

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A Functional Alternative to Dependency Injection in C++

Bob Schmidt

03 August 2017 00:43:07 +01:00

Dependency injection allows flexibility. Satprem Pamudurthy showcases a functional alternative in C++.

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An Introduction to FastFormat (Part 3): Solving Real Problems, Quickly

webeditor

10 June 2009 09:56:00 +01:00

A good library must be useful in practice. Matthew Wilson looks at usability and extendability.

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An Introduction to FastFormat (Part 2): Custom Argument and Sink Types

webeditor

06 May 2009 09:54:00 +01:00

A library should be customisable and have good performance. Matthew Wilson shows how to achieve both.

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An Introduction to Fast Format (Part 1): The State of the Art

webeditor

16 February 2009 08:54:00 +00:00

Writing a good library is hard. Matthew Wilson compares some existing formatting libraries, and promises to do better.

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auto_value: Transfer Semantics for Value Types

webeditor

07 October 2007 11:56:00 +01:00

In his quest to pass around values efficiently, Richard Harris concludes by looking at ways of transferring ownership, now and in the future.

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auto_value: Transfer Semantics for Value Types

webeditor

12 August 2007 11:55:00 +01:00

"Copy On Write" (COW) sounds like an ideal idiom for avoiding expensive copies. But care must be taken to avoid producing a "mad cow".

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A Perspective on Use of Conditional Statements versus Assertions

webeditor

22 April 2007 11:57:00 +01:00

Simon Sebright offers us the benefit of his experience.


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