Personal preferences for the use of pointers and references
A blog post about pointers and references? What kind of newbie am I? Well, the kind with 20+ years of programming experience that is not afraid to admit his ignorance, apparently? on the other hand;...
View ArticleCommon code smells by Ólafur Waage
The following post was triggered by a twitter post by Ólafur Waage about his observations of common mistakes during code reviews over a period of 4 months. Some of these were not news to me but I had...
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Win32 library on Windows 10 Creators edition using Outputdebugstring
At a readers request, I wrote this post describing a ‘Windows 10 Creators Update’ quirk/feature. the symptom: While testing Debugview++ on Windows Windows 10 1703 Creators Update Build 15063.413 (the...
View ArticleEnhance type safely using Opaque Typedefs aka phantom types
Its seems every year (see references at the bottom) someone writes about having strong typedefs in C++. Hey, it’s end of February and nobody did it for 2018 yet!? The idea is simple (or so it seems)....
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How to refurbish legacy code into a maintainable state
So you (or rather I) have this legacy code that must be maintained. It has all the classic symptoms: it looks like it was written before const, smart pointers or RAII were a thing the author was a big...
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Review: Deleaker, C++ memory leak detection
A software review? This is the first review I’ve even written as a blog post on my nullptr.nl website. Why start now? I considered whether I wanted to associate myself with any particular software and...
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Optimize Windows 10 for Software Development
This blog is about how I use windows as a professional software engineer. What windows settings I customize and what tools I use to make my daily work as pleasing and productive as possible....
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CPPCON 2019 Trip Report
@ CppCon 2019 @ Aurora (near Denver) Colorado Just returned from one wholly awesome week of CppCon. This year the conference was held at The Gaylord Rockies Convention Center in Aurora Colorado, just...
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How to learn more as a C++ software engineer?
I couple of years ago, I was looking for new ways to improve myself. I had done several trainings on C++, C#, software processes, communication, leadership, etc. However, I was not really finding want...
View ArticleC++ Meetup Eindhoven – Januari 16, 2020
First Meetup Today we held our first C++ Meetup in Eindhoven at One Of A Kind Technologies (my workplace). We had about 20 people out of 30 that signed up, so I though not bad for a first meeting. I...
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