Bjarne Stroustrup, the father of C++ once said that “C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.” Why did he say so? What makes...

Let’s continue our exploration of C++23 features! This week we discuss how to call consteval functions from not explicitly constant evaluated ones. This paper, this new feature is also a good exam...

Let’s continue our exploration of C++23 features! This week we discuss the extended language support for literal suffixes. What is a literal suffix? Literals can have an optional suffix which ind...

I’ve been interested in how to write a good resume. Both because I keep one up to date and also because I saw a few ones recently as I helped my managers with technical interviews. I definitely saw...

First, I learnt C++ at university, but I better not count it. Then I first started to work with it 9 years ago. My employer booked a 5-day-training only for me. Those were good, generous times. But...

In this article, I’d like to share an initial review of Tipi, a C++ related cloud service. For your information, there might be a future collaboration between me and Tipi, but this article is not s...

We are soon reaching the middle of 2022 and as such we are getting closer and closer to C++23. I plan to show you more and more new features and fixes from the coming version. The first one was ded...

When a few months ago I read The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, I learned that they are the modern IT-era reincarnations of The Goal. It was written in a similar style in 1984, but it was...

When I write code I don’t only want to write code that is correct. I also want to write code that is understandable, and maintainable. I want to deliver code that is easy to read not only for the c...

Imagine that you used a feature of your favourite language without fear. Imagine that you used that feature endlessly, without having a second thought. You even promoted it in conversations, in cod...