2015

Exceptions are part of C++. They are thrown by the standard library classes, and sometimes even if we are not really using the standard library. So, unless we are in a very restrictive […]

Probably everybody who has written C++03 code had the pleasure of using NULL and stumbling over one pitfall or another. C++11 brought the solution to those issues with nullptr.

A programmer who has not mentally resigned already, is constantly learning. This includes taking lessons, listening to talks, reading books and of course blogs and other resources on the web. However, don’t take everything you read or hear at face value.

Since my blog touches clean code topics a lot, I often mention maintainability. In turn, readability plays a major part in maintainability, since what we can’t read properly, we can’t analyze, debug, fix, refactor and extend properly either. But who defines what is readable and what is not?

Every now and then we have to change something in our build procedure, and more often than not those changes are a real pain. Build scripts are the step children of many software projects. Someone wrote them, nobody cares much about them, they just work and build the project. Until they don’t.

Having covered the basics of `auto` and rvalue references, there is a third big new C++ feature definitely worth knowing about: creating function objects on the fly with lambda expressions.

One of the more recent posts in my employer’s company blog is titled ‘What’s wrong with: “I don’t write any tests since I am not a tester”?’ – which made me think about the relation of developers to testing, and about the self-image of any developer who would say that sentence in earnest.