Oh, singletons… We can’t live with them, we can’t live without them. I remember that in my first team there was a guy with a very bright mind, but he was not yet mature enough just after the unive...
Why clean code is not the norm?
Why is it that #CleanCode is still the exception and not the norm in so many companies? A very interesting question from Marcus Biel, who was the Director of Developer Experience at RedHat at that...
Never split the difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Christopher Voss
Never split the difference is a great book on negotiations by a former international hostage negotiator from FBI. Christopher Voss shows us through various stories how and why hostage negotiation s...
The big STL Algorithms tutorial: modifying sequence operations - copy et al.
In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we will discover all the modifying sequence operations whose name start with copy: copy copy_n copy_if copy_backward copy There is...
Forty and still a dev?
I’m a regular attendee of the Riviera Software Craftsmanship Meetup. It’s so good to listen to fresh ideas. And of course, to have a good craft beer ;) I always get some inspiration as a takeaway....
Driving Technical Change by Terrence Ryan
If you don’t have initiatives, if you don’t like to nor want to change the status quo, if you don’t believe that you can or should have an impact this is not your book. Driving Technical Change i...
The big STL Algorithms tutorial: the rest of non-modifying sequence operations
In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we will discover all the non-modifying sequence operations that we haven’t seen yet. Namely, we are going to have a deeper look at the followi...
RivieraDev 2019 - the gastronomical dev conference
This May, I had the chance once again to attend Riviera Dev and even to speak about my hobby. Was that gastronomical? You bet it was! But more on that later. This was the second year that the co...
The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference by Nicolai Josuttis
For each quarter, I define three goals for myself as described in Setting yourself up to success. In the previous quarters, I had personal goals related to the C++ Standard Library. As I was alrea...
How do you prepare your commits?
What is your process to create a new commit? Is it just git commit -am? Or is it more sophisticated? Mine used to be something like this: for file in files returned by git status: git diff file...