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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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Template Programming Compile Time String Functions
Martin Moene
02 August 2015 14:10:23 +01:00
Practising old exercises in new ways can keep you sharp. Nick Weatherhead demonstrates some well-known code katas using C++ compile time tricks.
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Numbers in JavaScript
Martin Moene
01 August 2015 14:12:14 +01:00
JavaScript floating point numbers can confuse C++ programmers. Anthony Williams draws our attention to some surprising behaviour.
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Are we nearly there yet? Refactoring C++
Martin Moene
11 July 2015 21:42:29 +01:00
Alan Griffiths evaluates two tools for developers with some simple use-cases.
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Golang programming on AppEngine
Martin Moene
10 July 2015 21:43:46 +01:00
Silas S. Brown tries his hand at writing native code for the Cloud.
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Split and Merge Revisited
Martin Moene
07 July 2015 21:49:04 +01:00
Vassili Kaplan makes improvements to the Expression Parser.
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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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Non-Superfluous People: Architects
Martin Moene
04 June 2015 10:28:31 +01:00
No developer is an island. Sergey Ignatchenko continues his series of non-superfluous people by looking at the role of architects.
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Terse Exception Messages
Martin Moene
03 June 2015 10:30:02 +01:00
Log files often contain ‘error’ information. Chris Oldwood suggests they rarely contain anything that could be considered helpful.
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Get Debugging Better!
Martin Moene
02 June 2015 10:31:04 +01:00
The GNU debugger has several useful features you may not know. Jonathan Wakely shows us how to save time and pain with some simple tricks.
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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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Wallowing in Filth
Martin Moene
08 May 2015 14:17:03 +01:00
Pete Goodliffe wades into the dreaded cesspit of ‘low-quality code’.
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Writing Good C++ APIs
Martin Moene
07 May 2015 14:21:03 +01:00
Tom Björkholm examines some common pitfalls that make code hard to use.
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Split and Merge – Another Algorithm for Parsing Mathematical Expressions
Martin Moene
05 May 2015 16:53:19 +01:00
Vassili Kaplan presents an alternative to Dijkstra’s algorithm.
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Using 32-bit COM Objects from 64-bit Programs
Martin Moene
04 May 2015 17:12:56 +01:00
Roger Orr explains how to cross the platform boundary in COM libraries.
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Raspberry Pi Linux User Mode GPIO in C++ – Part 1
Martin Moene
03 May 2015 17:15:48 +01:00
Ralph McArdell expands the Raspberry Pi with a C++ library.
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Standards Report
Martin Moene
02 May 2015 17:18:48 +01:00
Mark Radford reports the latest from the C++ Standards meetings.
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Code Critique Competition 93
Martin Moene
01 May 2015 17:21:12 +01:00
Set and collated by Roger Orr. A book prize is awarded for the best entry.