Core Guidelines are not Rules
There is a difference between guidelines and rules. Boiling down guidelines to one-sentence rules has drawbacks that make your code harder to understand.
Tooling
Docker4c: portable C++ development environment
Installing everything we need to develop C++ applications can be a lengthy, even painful process. Docker makes it possible to build a development environment once and deploy it everywhere. The […]
CMake – Properties and Options
Today I’ll continue the little CMake tutorial series. We’ll add a few options and a bit of fine-tuning to the compilation of our example project.
Reproducible build: environments and scripts
Have you ever seen one of those nasty errors that appear on one machine and not on another? To be able to track those down we need a reproducible build […]
CMake Project Structure
As promised in the last post about CMake, today we’ll use a proper CMake project structure for our “Hello CMake” project.
CMake – Another Target and the Project
Last week, we’ve started our little CMake project with a “Hello CMake” one-liner. Now it’s time to expand that example by adding another target and information about the project.
Hello CMake!
Since I have mentioned CMake in a handful of past blog posts, it is time to give a short introduction for those that don’t know it yet.
How to Perform Unit Testing Native C++ Code in Visual Studio
Today’s guest post is by Saurabh Hooda. Saurabh is one of the co-founders of hackr.io. You can find Saurabh on Twitter and Medium. image source C++ is, hands down, one […]
Refactoring Support in Cevelop
In the last days, I’ve played around with Cevelop a bit, mainly interested in the refactoring capabilities it offers.
Continuous integration with Travis CI
In today’s guest post, Richel Bilderbeek gives us some insight about some the many possible advantages of setting up a continuous integration service, showing some minimal complete examples. Richel works […]