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Practical Scale Testing

Bob Schmidt

03 February 2018 16:31:40 +00:00

Everyone wants scalable systems. Arun Saha explores methods for testing scalability.

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Functional Error-Handling with Optional and Expected

Bob Schmidt

02 February 2018 16:17:18 +00:00

Exceptions should be exceptional. Simon Brand shows modern alternatives from the standard library and ways to improve them.

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Visualisation of Multidimensional Data

Bob Schmidt

06 January 2018 16:40:18 +00:00

Frances Buontempo considers how to represent large data sets.

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Testing Times (Part 1)

Bob Schmidt

05 January 2018 17:35:11 +00:00

Pete Goodliffe explores how to test code to ensure it works as expected.

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Programmers’ Puzzles

Bob Schmidt

04 January 2018 16:57:31 +00:00

Francis Glassborow reviews his last challenge and presents a new one.

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CAS (Re)Actor for Non-Blocking Multithreaded Primitives

Bob Schmidt

06 December 2017 22:41:01 +00:00

Lock free programming can be difficult. Sergey Ignatchenko shows how copy and swap can work for reactors.

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A Design Example

Bob Schmidt

05 December 2017 22:38:53 +00:00

Design issues cause problems. Charles Tolman considers an organising principle to get to the heart of the matter.

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The Last Word in Patterns

Bob Schmidt

04 December 2017 22:36:34 +00:00

What can you do in a single transaction in a database? Paul Grenyer writes us his Single CrUD pattern.

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Implementing Type-Classes as OCaml Modules

Bob Schmidt

03 December 2017 22:27:28 +00:00

Type classes achieve overloading in functional paradigms. Shayne Fletcher implements some as OCaml modules.

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Evolutionary Computing Frameworks for Optimisation

Bob Schmidt

02 December 2017 22:22:53 +00:00

Evolutionary algorithms can find optimal solutions to problems. Aurora Ramírez and Chris Simons give us an overview.

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Afterwood

Bob Schmidt

01 December 2017 22:20:30 +00:00

Tabs are controversial. Chris Oldwood reminds us of their many guises.

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Code Aesthetics

Bob Schmidt

10 November 2017 17:18:32 +00:00

Pete Goodliffe implores us to care (enough) about code beauty.

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A Brief Introduction to Docker

Bob Schmidt

08 November 2017 17:00:11 +00:00

Silas S. Brown shares his experiences of setting up a virtual appliance.

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Marking Benches

Bob Schmidt

07 October 2017 20:03:21 +01:00

Too slow! Russel Winder reminds us that benchmarking code performance is a complicated issue.

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‘Speedy Gonzales’ Serializing (Re)Actors via Allocators

Bob Schmidt

05 October 2017 19:28:12 +01:00

More speed! Sergey Ignatchenko completes his (Re)Actor allocator series with Part III.

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Polymorphism in C++ – A Type Compatibility View

Bob Schmidt

04 October 2017 19:21:27 +01:00

Polymorphism can happen in many ways. Satprem Pamudurthy compiles an exhaustive matrix of approaches.

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C++11 (and beyond) Exception Support

Bob Schmidt

02 October 2017 18:57:54 +01:00

C++11 introduced many new exception related features. Ralph McArdell gives a comprehensive overview.

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Thonny: Python IDE for Beginners

Bob Schmidt

08 September 2017 16:43:12 +01:00

Silas S. Brown introduces a new Python IDE.

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A Glint of Ruby

Bob Schmidt

06 September 2017 16:23:46 +01:00

Pete Cordell shares his experiences with learning a new scripting language.

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Why I Avoid PHP

Bob Schmidt

05 September 2017 16:21:49 +01:00

Silas S. Brown shares a war story.


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