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 ...

Confucius wrote that “Virtue is never solitary; it always has neighbors.” What he meant by that was that good behaviour and good thinking is contagious. Is that actually true? I don’t have the an...

I’ve already written quite a few articles about features introduced by C++ 11 and how much it changed how I look at the language. The feature I liked the most is probably the one of lambda expressi...

After I attended a training on the subject of optimizing C++, I felt I’d be interested in going a bit deeper. At least to read a bit more about this topic. So I asked the trainer for some books he’...

I’ve worked in a couple of different scrum teams, one I even served as a scrum master. There was one common point among all these teams, the scrum master was always or at least used to be a softwar...

Three laws of objects. Sounds catchy enough? To me, it did. I read about these laws in Ken Pugh’s Prefactoring. If you sense a not too much-hidden reference to Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics from...

You might have noticed that I don’t just read technical books. In fact, at least half of the books I read are non-technical. A couple of months ago, I found a great deal on Amazon and I could get R...

Again? It’s the end of the year? I almost forget to sit down calmly and look back. It was a fruitful year with lots of fun and challenges. In short: My second child, my son, Daniel was born ...

Recently I read this post from John Hotterbeek about the burning question of how much you should learn to keep up with your career. To sum up what John wrote about: According to Uncle Bob, you...

Reading through Scott Meyer’s Efective Modern C++ helped me discover a lot of features of modern C++, including right value references, the trailing return type declaration and lambda expressions. ...