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Diving into the ACCU Website

Bob Schmidt

02 May 2020 18:12:16 +01:00

Matthew Jones gives us an insight into the paddling going on under the water beneath the swan that is our website.

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Deconstructing Inheritance

Bob Schmidt

05 April 2020 19:09:30 +01:00

Inheritance can be overused. Lucian Radu Teodorescu considers how it can go wrong and the alternatives.

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Do Repeat Yourself

Bob Schmidt

05 June 2019 19:18:34 +01:00

Software developers are well aware of the ‘DRY Principle’. Lucian Radu Teodorescu investigates when this common wisdom does not always hold.

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Don’t Use std::endl

Bob Schmidt

02 February 2019 16:52:53 +00:00

How do you add a new line in C++? Chris Sharpe suggests std::endl is a tiny utility that’s more trouble than it’s worth.

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DIY Technical Authoring

Bob Schmidt

06 January 2019 16:14:37 +00:00

Alison Peck shares some of the tricks of her trade.

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Diseconomies of Scale

Bob Schmidt

07 December 2018 16:48:13 +00:00

Bigger is not always better. Allan Kelly considers when smaller is more productive.

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Don’t Brush Bugs Under The Carpet

Bob Schmidt

04 November 2018 17:36:29 +00:00

Silas S.Brown presents an allegorical lesson on bug reports.

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Don’t Assume Any Non-Zero exit() Will Fail!

Bob Schmidt

06 July 2018 17:13:44 +01:00

Silas S. Brown shares his finding on process exit codes.

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doctest – the Lightest C++ Unit Testing Framewor

Martin Moene

03 February 2017 15:57:47 +00:00

C++ has many unit testing frameworks. Viktor Kirilov introduces doctest.

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Delivering Bad News from QA

Martin Moene

07 November 2016 16:59:01 +00:00

Silas S. Brown describes how not to report your senior colleague’s bug.

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Determinism: Requirements vs Features

Martin Moene

06 October 2016 21:12:15 +01:00

A program can easily be non-deterministic. Sergey Ignatchenko considers how to define determinism.

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Debugging – What Has Changed in the Last Decade?

Martin Moene

03 July 2016 20:57:24 +01:00

Neil Horlock travels through time in search of bugs.

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Dogen: The Package Management Saga

Martin Moene

07 June 2016 13:20:03 +01:00

How do you manage packages in C++? Marco Craveiro eventually discovered Conan after some frustrating experiences.

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Deterministic Components for Distributed Systems

Martin Moene

04 June 2016 14:32:53 +01:00

Non-deterministic data leads to unstable tests. Sergey Ignatchenko considers when this happens and how to avoid it.

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Defining Concepts

Martin Moene

06 February 2016 18:47:45 +00:00

Concepts provide a new way of constraining code. Andrew Sutton shows us how to define and use them.

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Don’t Design for Performance Until It’s Too Late

Martin Moene

03 August 2015 13:15:39 +01:00

People claim optimisation can cause unreadable code. Andy Balaam argues good performance should be at the core of code design.

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Delayed Copy Pattern

Martin Moene

06 January 2015 21:36:39 +00:00

Vassili Kaplan presents some techniques for making efficient use of the STL containers in C++.

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Designing Observers in C++11

Martin Moene

04 December 2014 19:07:40 +00:00

The observer pattern is over two decades old. Alan Griffiths fits a venerable design pattern into a contemporary context.

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Debuggers Are Still For Wimps

Martin Moene

04 November 2014 18:52:12 +00:00

Frances Buontempo shows how to remote debug python from Visual Studio.

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Debug Complexity: How Assertions Affect Debugging Time

Martin Moene

07 October 2014 21:41:16 +01:00

Debugging any program can be time consuming. Sergey Ignatchenko and Dmytro Ivanchykhin extend their mathematical model to consider the effect of assertions.


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