I rarely review shortish free e-books, but when I thought about it, I realized there is no real reason behind. In fact, is that a problem that a book is shorter than a 100 pages? Value should not b...

We probably all learnt that one cannot overload the destructor. Hence I write about “the” destructor and a destructor… After all, it has no return type and it doesn’t take parameters. It’s also not...

I’ve been proposing some topics for a person I’m mentoring and one was “productivity/motivation”. She immediately became quite excited about the idea, so I asked what is going on. She told me that...

This is a book that I’ve been waiting for to finally read for a long time. I could have bought it, but I decided that it’ll be the first book that I buy from the royalties I earned with How to use ...

Life is a chain of opportunities. Each task you take on will lead you to more doors hiding other opportunities. Some are worth opening, some are not. Proofreading C++20: Get the Details by Rainer...

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not particularly successful. If I look around I see prettier, richer, more popular people. People who rose more in the company ranks, people who write better code, who can c...

The Big Leap! Who doesn’t want to take the big leap? I bet there are many. Stepping up always involve some risks and humans, in general, are more afraid of loss and therefore they are more risk-ave...

In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we cover the binary search operations. I use plural because there isn’t simply std::binary_search available for us, but other algorithms as well...

I read the really valuable Skin in the game, by Nassim Taleb a few months ago. If you haven’t read it yet, you might ask who are people without skin in the game? There are people who take no rea...

This is the second edition of the book and it was promised to include some important updates. As I liked the first edition and I could it get from Amazon for less than 10 Euros, I gave it a try. I...