Trailing Return Types, East Const, and Code Style Consistency
I have written about the code style of having “trailing return types everywhere” in the past. My advice back then was to use them only when necessary. I might have […]
ACCUConf 2018 Trip Report
Two weeks ago, I attended the ACCU Conference in Bristol again, and again it was a blast. ACCUConf is by far the most interesting and enjoyable conference I have attended […]
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 […]
Tailor Standard Containers to Your Needs
We often use standard containers as members of our classes. In a lot of cases, the semantics we actually need is not equivalent to the semantics the containers provide.
Raw Pointers Are Gonna Stay!
Contrary to Sunday’s orchestrated April Fool’s posts, raw pointers are not going anywhere. However, there are some things in those posts that are based on reality. I’ll go into a […]
Raw Pointers Are Gone!
There’s some great news coming from the C++ standards committee: Raw pointers are gone – or rather will be in C++20.
The Dark Side of Error Logging
Today we have another guest post by Phillip Johnston about error logging. Phillip is an embedded systems consultant specializing in bare-metal firmware development in C and C++. Embedded Artistry is […]
Code of Conduct – why I Insist
I have had a lot of questions and discussions lately about the necessity for a code of conduct at conferences. I boycott any conference that does not have one or […]
Forward-declaring Templates and Enums
In my last post, I wrote about forward declarations for normal classes. Today, I give you some information about forward-declaring templates and enums.
Forward Declarations to Reduce Compiletime Dependencies
As promised last week in my post about strange include techniques, I will go into reducing compile time dependencies. Reducing dependencies by shifting them from headers to source files can […]