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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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On IT and... CO2 Footprints
Bob Schmidt
04 June 2019 19:08:09 +01:00
Recent headlines declare a climate emergency. Sergey Ignatchenko considers how we can make an impact on IT’s carbon footprint.
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Use UTF-16 Interfaces to Ship Windows Code
Bob Schmidt
03 June 2019 19:01:46 +01:00
Character encoding can cause problems. Péter Ésik explains why UTF-16 interfaces help on Windows.
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ACCU Conference 2019: Reports
Bob Schmidt
02 June 2019 18:44:54 +01:00
ACCU holds an annual conference. Several attendees tell us what they learnt there this year.
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Afterwood
Bob Schmidt
01 June 2019 18:41:56 +01:00
There are parallels between writing and programming. Chris Oldwood shares his journey into learning to write well.
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This means war!
Bob Schmidt
04 April 2019 17:45:08 +01:00
Careless use of language can upset people. Frances Buontempo asks what we can do to make the developer experience better.
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NullableAttribute and C# 8
Bob Schmidt
04 April 2019 17:39:30 +01:00
C# 8 will bring many new features. Jon Skeet investigates the metadata representation of Nullable Reference Types.
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lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help!
Bob Schmidt
04 April 2019 17:35:48 +01:00
C++11 introduced new value categories. Anders Schau Knatten explains his way of thinking about them.
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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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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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Blockchain-Structured Programming
Bob Schmidt
01 April 2019 22:57:03 +01:00
Coins are a wedge-shaped piece used for some purpose. Teedy Deigh shares her angle on the technology underpinning crypto-currencies.
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Rip It Up and Start Again
Bob Schmidt
07 February 2019 19:12:59 +00:00
Some things can be resurrected, others cannot. Frances Buontempo wonders when we need to repent and start over.
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5 Big Fat Reasons Why Mutexes Suck Big Time
Bob Schmidt
06 February 2019 18:47:55 +00:00
Mutable shared state in multithreaded code is often protected by mutexes. Sergey Ignatchenko reminds us that Re-Actors can avoid many of the 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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QM Bites: Understand Windows Operating-System Identification Preprocessor Macros
Bob Schmidt
04 February 2019 17:12:30 +00:00
Quality matters and bite sized articles help. Matthew Wilson returns with a QM Bites.