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YAGNI-C as a Practical Application of YAGNI

Martin Moene

05 October 2013 20:36:01 +01:00

YAGNI can seem vague. Sergey Ignatchenko offers a more precise definition.

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Has the Singleton Not Suffered Enough

Martin Moene

04 October 2013 22:46:58 +01:00

Singletons are much maligned. Omar Bashir considers why.

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Automatic Navigation Mesh Generation in Configuration Space

Martin Moene

03 October 2013 08:55:56 +01:00

Walkable 3D environments can be automatically navigated. Stuart Golodetz demonstrates how navigation meshes achieve this.

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C++ Range and Elevation

Martin Moene

02 October 2013 22:38:59 +01:00

C++ provides many features for higher-level programming, but lacks some common ones present in other languages.

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Hard Upper Limit on Memory Latency

Martin Moene

05 August 2013 19:53:37 +01:00

Achieving very low latency is important. Sergey Ignatchenko asks how low can we go.

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Simple Instrumentation

Martin Moene

04 August 2013 19:47:59 +01:00

Programs often run out of memory or grind to a halt. Chris Oldwood demonstrates how to add instrumentation to your code to track its performance.

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Portable String Literals in C++

Martin Moene

03 August 2013 18:11:08 +01:00

How hard can it be to make a file in C++ with international text literals in its name? Alf Steinbach shows us.

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Dynamic C++ (Part 2)

Martin Moene

02 August 2013 18:04:56 +01:00

Previously we saw how to use some simple dynamic features in C++. Alex Fabijanic and Richard Saunders explore more powerful dynamic tools.

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Auto – a necessary evil? (Part 2)

Martin Moene

01 August 2013 18:01:13 +01:00

Should you declare (almost) everything auto? Roger Orr considers when auto is appropriate.

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Auto – A Necessary Evil?

Martin Moene

06 June 2013 18:25:03 +01:00

Superficially simple language features can be surprisingly complicated. Roger Orr explores a new one that is likely to be used widely.

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TCP/IP Explained. A Bit

Martin Moene

05 June 2013 18:16:05 +01:00

Nowadays most programmers rely on network connectivity, often without really understanding the details. Sergey Ignatchenko compares and contrasts the two main protocols.

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Demons May Fly Out Of Your Nose

Martin Moene

04 June 2013 18:09:57 +01:00

Language standards give guarantees about valid program behaviour. Olve Maudel discovers what happens if you break your end of the bargain.

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Wallpaper Rotation on Ubuntu using Ruby and Flickr

Martin Moene

03 June 2013 18:03:11 +01:00

Repetitive tasks are ideal candidates for scripting. Filip van Laenen walks us through a simple example.

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Dynamic C++, Part 1

Martin Moene

02 June 2013 17:43:37 +01:00

Static and dynamic languages have different trade-off. Alex Fabijanic attempts to get the best of both worlds.

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A Model for Debug Complexity

Martin Moene

06 April 2013 22:36:28 +01:00

Debugging any program can be difficult. Sergey Ignatchenko and Dmytro Ivanchykhin develop a mathematical model for its complexity.

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Valgrind Part 6 – Helgrind and DRD

Martin Moene

05 April 2013 17:18:51 +01:00

Debugging multi-threaded code is hard. Paul Floyd uses Helgrind and DRD to find deadlocks and race conditions.

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Quality Matters #7 Exceptions: the story so far

Martin Moene

04 April 2013 18:53:30 +01:00

Exception handling is difficult to get right. Matthew Wilson recaps the story so far.

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Causality – Relating Distributed Diagnostic Contexts

Martin Moene

03 April 2013 19:25:31 +01:00

Supporting a system with many moving parts can be hard. Chris Oldwood demonstrates one way to add tags to log information to aid diagnosis.

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Executable Documentation Doesn’t Have To Slow You Down

Martin Moene

02 April 2013 19:32:36 +01:00

Comprehensibility of end-to-end scenarios and quick feedback of unit tests are competing goals. Seb Rose introduces Cucumber with tags to meet both needs.

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Why Dysfunctional Programming Matters

Martin Moene

01 April 2013 00:00:00 +01:00

Function progamming is all the rage. Teedy Deigh considers how it offers many opportunities for the serious programmer.


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