Singletons – What’s the Deal?
If you like a heated discussion, just pick a few developers and start a conversation about singletons. Sentiments and opinions about that particular design pattern are all over the place. For […]
Arne Mertz
Audience
Last week’s blog post was a raving success, at least compared to my previous posts. In three days, that single post got about half as much visits as all of my […]
Simple and Clean Code vs. Performance
One of C++s strengths is that it is possible to write very performant code. But does that mean we always have to worry about performance and write our everyday code as […]
Making Yourself at Home in Legacy Code, Part 3: Getting the Team on Board
I have written about small changes and big refactorings in legacy code. But before one starts changing everything in a legacy code base there is one important hurdle to take: The […]
Making Yourself at Home in Legacy Code, Part 2: Refactoring
In the last post I started this mini-series about what you can do if you are thrown at a legacy code base. I wrote about not rushing in, about not […]
Making Yourself at Home in Legacy Code, Part 1: Options
Have you ever come across a legacy code base with dark and dusty corners that have been untouched for years? Many of us have, because green field development of shiny new applications […]
One Hour of Unittests?
Have you ever worked with a suite of unit tests that took an hour or so to run? I have. And I have not. Because they were only called “unit […]
Fun with(out) keyword explicit
Today’s post is about an incident with our compiler and a small little feature that sometimes seems to be underused or simply forgotten: Keyword explicit. How a Bug in Our […]
Operator Overloading – Introduction to Boost.Operators, Part 3
This is the third part of my introductory series on Boost.Operators. In the first part and second part I have written about the underlying ideas of the library and provided […]
Operator Overloading – Introduction to Boost.Operators, Part 2
This is the second part of my introduction to Boost.Operators. Click here for the first part. I will start right where I stopped in the last part.