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Beyond Code Criticism
Bob Schmidt
04 July 2019 00:53:28 +01:00
Daniel James considers issues that might lie behind code like that in Code Critique 117.
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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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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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Building C#/.NET, Go, and Ruby Programs with libCLImate – Part 1: Ruby
Bob Schmidt
05 May 2019 23:33:51 +01:00
Matthew Wilson demonstrates command-line processing.
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Assembly Club
Bob Schmidt
04 May 2019 23:29:37 +01:00
Ian Bruntlett compares dialects of assembly code.
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Code Critique Competition 117
Bob Schmidt
03 May 2019 23:24:43 +01:00
Set and collated by Roger Orr. A book prize is awarded for the best entry.
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Challenges
Bob Schmidt
02 May 2019 23:21:01 +01:00
Francis Glassborow revisits old challenges and sets a new one.
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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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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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Code Critique Competition 116
Bob Schmidt
02 March 2019 15:47:00 +00:00
Set and collated by Roger Orr. A book prize is awarded for the best entry.
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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.
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C++ Tagged Reference Types
Bob Schmidt
09 January 2019 16:24:47 +00:00
Pete Cordell proposes an extension to C++ move syntax.
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When Will Python 2 End?
Bob Schmidt
08 January 2019 16:22:34 +00:00
Silas Brown explains why the days of Python 2, while numbered, may be longer than you think.
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Code Critique Competition 115
Bob Schmidt
03 January 2019 16:05:04 +00:00
Set and collated by Roger Orr. A book prize is awarded for the best entry.
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Report on Challenge 5
Bob Schmidt
02 January 2019 15:58:57 +00:00
Francis Glassborow comments on his previous challenge, and provides a new puzzle.
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Algol 68 – A Retrospective
Bob Schmidt
03 December 2018 16:16:05 +00:00
Algol 68 has influenced programming languages in many ways. Daniel James reminds us just how many.
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Improve Code by Removing It
Bob Schmidt
05 November 2018 17:40:00 +00:00
Pete Goodliffe takes a scalpel to unnecessary code.
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Code Critique Competition 114
Bob Schmidt
02 November 2018 17:14:16 +00:00
Set and collated by Roger Orr. A book prize is awarded for the best entry.