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.
Operator Overloading – Introduction to Boost.Operators, Part 1
In my first two posts about operator overloading I have written about the basics and common practice. This post shows some lessons from the common practice post on a concrete example and […]
Type Deduction and Braced Initializers
I just finished watching a talk from CppCon 2014 by Scott Meyers: Type Deduction and Why You Care. All in all it was a very interesting and entertaining talk, and […]
Plain Pointers as Function Parameters
In many legacy code bases we encounter functions that get their parameters passed by plain pointers. Often those pointers are expected to be not null. In this post I am […]
Uses of Inheritance
C++ is a multi-paradigm language, so it is not a purely object oriented language but has other aspects, for example a huge support for generic programming via templates. One of its major […]
The Rule of Zero revisited: The Rule of All or Nothing
In 2012, Martinho Fernandes coined the Rule of Zero in a blog post. In 2014, Scott Meyers wrote a blog post about a concern with that rule and proposed a Rule of Five Defaults. In this post I am going to wrap up my thoughts about the two posts and propose a “Rule of All or Nothing”.
Adherence to Design Patterns
Some people adhere strongly to design patterns. They have read the “Gang of Four” book and are now convinced that there should be a design pattern used in almost every […]