When we start coding in an object-oriented programming language we often think that it’s about building nice inheritance hierarchies. So we do. A bit later we learn that we should rather use compos...

Christmas is coming, and I created a small coding exercise for you that focuses on Object-Oriented Design and delivering presents every to child! The code kata is called Santas’s Christmas Wishlis...

Recently, I’ve built Daily C++ Interview and since the beginning, I kept something important in mind. I need to provide value, and I don’t need a perfect implementation for that. I don’t need to au...

There is barely any day for me without reading a book. And days I when I miss reading, it feels bad. It feels like my mind is hungry. Reading is as important as eating. When you eat you feed your b...

In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we will finish the episodes on modifying sequence operations by three functions involving randomicity. random_shuffle shuffle sample ...

This is an excerpt from by book called The Seniority Trap. I’m sharing some parts from each chapter. Check out the #thesenioritytrap for more parts. Let me share a personal story about how readin...

What do you think the most important git practice is? What is a practice? But before you answer it, tell me what a practice is? How do you define the most valuable practices? What characteristics...

Emergent Design was published in 2008, but even after 12 years, I still found it extremely relevant in 2020. In the first part of the book, the author Scott Bain discusses about software developmen...

Just make everything const that you can! That’s the bare minimum you could do for your compiler! This is a piece of advice, many senior developers tend to repeat to juniors, while so often even th...

Human lives are built around rules for millennia. You can think about ten commandments to start with, the laws of Hammurabi and in fact all the laws, rules and regulations we have ever had to follo...