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Simplicity Through Immutability
Martin Moene
08 January 2015 21:38:28 +00:00
Chris Oldwood considers the benefits of unchangeable data.
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Advice for the Young at Heart
Martin Moene
07 January 2015 21:35:41 +00:00
Pete Goodliffe offers sage advice, and asks you to do the same.
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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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Const and Concurrency (part 2)
Martin Moene
05 January 2015 21:37:39 +00:00
Ralph McArdell continues musing on comments to Herb Sutter’s updated GotW #6b solution.
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Non-Superfluous People: Testers
Martin Moene
04 December 2014 19:10:36 +00:00
Software development needs a team of supporting players. Sergey Ignatchenko takes a look at the role of professional testers.
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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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Order Notation in Practice
Martin Moene
03 December 2014 19:18:12 +00:00
What does complexity measurement mean? Roger Orr reminds us of the academic definition and looks at some real life situations.
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Testing Drives the Need for Flexible Configuration
Martin Moene
01 December 2014 19:28:31 +00:00
Inflexible configuration will cause problems. Chris Oldwood demonstrates how to support multiple configurations flexibly.
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Const and Concurrency (Part 1)
Martin Moene
07 November 2014 15:36:22 +00:00
Ralph McArdell comments on comments to Herb Sutter’s updated GotW #6b solution.
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Parsing Configuration Files in C++ with Boost
Martin Moene
06 November 2014 18:49:36 +00:00
Giuseppe Vacanti describes how to deal with program options, C++ style.
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Perl is a Better Sed, and Python 2 is Good
Martin Moene
05 November 2014 07:07:56 +00:00
Silas S. Brown sweats the differences between tools on common platforms.
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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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Code Critique Competition 90
Martin Moene
02 November 2014 21:04:36 +00:00
Set and collated by Roger Orr. A book prize is awarded for the best entry.
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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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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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Does Test-Driven Development Harm Clarity?
Martin Moene
05 August 2014 16:05:50 +01:00
Is clarity the key thing to aim for when writing software? Andy Balaam considers if TDD harms clarity and if this matters.
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Musings on Python – by a C++ Developer
Martin Moene
04 August 2014 16:10:10 +01:00
Python and C++ are very different languages. Sergey Ignatchenko walks through things in Python that can confuse a C++ programmer.