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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.

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Alternatives to Singletons and Global Variables

Martin Moene

05 April 2015 18:53:03 +01:00

Global variables and Singletons are usually considered bad. Bob Schmidt summarises some alternatives.

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Resource Management with Explicit Template Specializations

Martin Moene

04 April 2015 20:04:18 +01:00

RAII is a useful idiom. Pavel Frolov presents a powerful extension using explicit template specialization.

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Variadic and Variable Templates

Martin Moene

03 April 2015 20:08:15 +01:00

C++11 and 14 offer new features for Variadic and Variable templates. Peter Sommerlad showcases the compile-time possibilities they offer.

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iterator_pair – A Simple and Useful Iterator Adapter

Martin Moene

02 April 2015 20:11:25 +01:00

Can you form a new contain from two others? Vladimir Grigoriev reminds us how to write an iterator.

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Seeing the Wood for the Trees

Martin Moene

01 April 2015 20:13:53 +01:00

The outdoors is fabled to be great. Teedy Deigh suggests your code reflects your environment without ever having to look out of the window.

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Using ACCU Membership for Unique IDs

Martin Moene

09 March 2015 20:56:04 +00:00

Silas S. Brown considers the case for identity.


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