In an era when so many people want to have the next big shot when everyone wants to come out with the next big thing and suddenly find themselves at the top, this book, The Compound Effect by Darre...

We were going on holidays recently and we were going far away. We were travelling to Vietnam. The last time before my daughter would go pre-school and my son would start walking. In other terms, th...

In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, I’ll explain only one function. The for_each algorithm. What does it do? for_each takes a range and a function to apply on each element of th...

Effective Modern C++ is the book with the biggest impact on my professional life recently. As I’ve written already, I used to work with older versions of C++, mostly with C++03. Scott Meyers in Ef...

With one of my colleagues, we’ve been working a lot to create and foster a culture of learning, an environment where constant self-improvement and knowledge sharing is highly valued. Let’s say that...

In this article, we are going to discover the pattern that is called the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern. Are you curious? Read on! Introduction Have you ever wondered about a derived class...

Code Ahead, what shall I call you? You are a novel. A fiction. Yet according to you, you’re semi-autobiographical. You are a rather exact picture of how things go in software development. Yet you’r...

It’s so easy to tell anyone that he shouldn’t care about this and that. He shouldn’t complain what the other does, shouldn’t care about the inhibitory conditions. But do you do your own job when yo...

In this first part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, I’ll start with the first chunk of the non-modifying sequence operations. Namely, in this post, you are going to read about all_of, any_of an...

Have you, Sandor, really read that book? - you might ask if you know me or you simply know what path I’m following. A hint: the technical path. Yet, my answer would be, of course, I had and it was ...