During the last two weeks, we saw a bug related to uninitialized values and undefined behaviour, we listed the different kinds of initializations in C++ and we started to more detailed discovery wi...
When and how variables are initialized? - Part 1
Recently, I shared a story with you about a bug, about a manifestation of undefined behaviour a compiler upgrade uncovered. There we briefly looked into why a member was left uninitialized, but the...
Upgrading the compiler: undefined behaviour uncovered
Not so long time ago, I already mentioned the differences between the different kinds of initializations in my article, Struct Initialization. In the coming weeks, I’m going to revisit the topic. ...
Should we move from fundamental types?
In this blog post, we are going to discuss the intersection of move semantics and fundamental types. Should we move values of fundamental types? Or can we even move them in the first place? Let’s d...
C++23: Encoding related changes
Today, we are going to go through a couple of changes introduced by C++23 where the common theme is encoding. These changes are all related to how the code we write will be encoded by the compiler....
Tidy First? by Kent Beck
Let’s start by explaining what tidying means when it comes to software development. Maybe a decade ago, this book would have been called “Refactoring first?”, but the term “refactoring” got inflate...
Three key philosophies behind C++
Recently, I had to refresh some training material for software engineers who are not new to programming but are new to C++. It’s a short introduction by all means and as participants are expected t...
My late discovery of std::filesystem - Part II
Last week, we started to discuss the main parts of std::filesystem and we discovered how to work with paths, how to navigate up through the directory structure and how to move files and directories...
My late discovery of std::filesystem - Part I
I know that this is not a new topic at all. But this blog in its roots is to document what I learn, and I haven’t used the filesystem library up until a few weeks ago. After the initial encounter, ...
How to write unit tests in C++ relying on non-code files?
Recently we had a coding dojo with my colleagues where we were working on the second part of the Racing Car Katas, called TextConverter. To sum up the problem, the HtmlTextConverter class takes a f...