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Failure is an option

Martin Moene

05 October 2015 22:12:24 +01:00

Motivational speeches and aphorisms are clichés. Frances Buontempo wonders if they sometimes do more harm than good.

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Developing programs

Martin Moene

13 September 2015 06:52:25 +01:00

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Semi-automatic Weapons

Martin Moene

06 August 2015 13:08:30 +01:00

Automating work can save time and avoid mistakes. But Frances Buontempo doesn’t think you should script everything.

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Editorial: What is a user interface?

Martin Moene

14 July 2015 21:35:38 +01:00

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Editorial: A little more conversation, a little less action

Martin Moene

07 June 2015 10:21:41 +01:00

A tension exists between talking and doing. Frances Buontempo wonders which matters more.

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Editorial: In Between

Martin Moene

09 May 2015 14:14:56 +01:00

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Editorial: Where was I?

Martin Moene

07 April 2015 18:09:47 +01:00

Space and time are relative. Frances Buontempo wonders whether this will wash as an excuse for another lack of editorial.

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Editorial: Private Funding

Martin Moene

11 March 2015 20:51:19 +00:00

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Editorial: FUD – Fear, uncertainty and doubt

Martin Moene

08 February 2015 18:30:38 +00:00

Sometimes programming is neither an engineering discipline nor a science. Frances Buontempo considers when it slips into the numinous realm.

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Editorial: A Mutual Understanding

Martin Moene

09 January 2015 21:32:36 +00:00

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Editorial: Finding your muse

Martin Moene

04 December 2014 19:00:25 +00:00

Lack of ideas and confidence can freeze an author. Frances Buontempo considers how to warm up.

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Editorial: Community Service

Martin Moene

10 November 2014 15:21:27 +00:00

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Editorial: Peer Reviewed

Martin Moene

08 October 2014 21:32:05 +01:00

Nobody gets it right first time. Frances Buontempo considers the importance of the review team.

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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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Alternative Overloads

Martin Moene

06 October 2014 21:50:13 +01:00

How do you return a default value given a condition? Malcolm Noyes presents solutions using older and newer C++ techniques.

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Everyone Hates build.xml

Martin Moene

05 October 2014 21:52:51 +01:00

Using Ant build tool can be tricky. Andy Balaam shows how to structure and test the build code.

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Defining Visitors Inline in Modern C++

Martin Moene

04 October 2014 21:56:17 +01:00

The Visitor pattern can involve non-local boilerplate code. Robert Mill and Jonathan Coe present an inline Visitor in C++.

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A Scheduling Technique for Small Software Projects and Teams

Martin Moene

03 October 2014 22:05:58 +01:00

Despite myriad scheduling tools, projects still overrun. Bob Schmidt presents some tips for accurate scheduling.

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Paper Bag Escapology Using Particle Swarm Optimisation

Martin Moene

02 October 2014 22:20:39 +01:00

Some attempts at programming one’s way out of a paper bag need an upfront model. Frances Buontempo simplifies things using particle swarm optimisation.

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Feeding Back

Martin Moene

01 October 2014 22:25:06 +01:00

Feedback can be positive and negative. Kevlin Henney contemplates how to make feedback useful.


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