Do you sometimes feel that you cannot explain the most basic things of a language you work with? You’re asked a simple question and suddenly you can only say “eeeeeeeh, I have to check, sorry.” Do...
Mocking non-virtual and free functions with gMock
Last time we started to discover gMock and we went into details regarding how we can mock virtual functions. We saw how to indicate that a function is to be mocked, how to provide a canned behaviou...
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
It’s very hard to start writing this blog post. I’ve been sitting in front of my laptop weeping. Like I did so many times while reading this book. I also had a feeling that “weeping” is one of the ...
Mocking virtual functions with gMock
In this mini-series we are going to discover mocking with gMock, the probably most widely used C++ mocking framework. I think that practical discussions should start with theoretical ones. In orde...
The big STL Algorithms tutorial: wrapping up
With the last article on algorithms about dynamic memory management, we reached the end of a 3-year-long journey that we started at the beginning of 2019. Since then, in about 30 different posts, ...
System Design Interview: An insider's guide by Alex Xu
Being a software engineer is special compared to many other professions in several ways. One aspect of this speciality is that you don’t just go to a job interview after polishing a bit your CV, th...
C++23: Deducing this
A few weeks ago, I participated in the first AFNOR meeting of my life. AFNOR is the French standardization organization, part of the ISO group and I’ve recently joined the group responsible for the...
5 types of communication a senior developer does
When I started at my first programming job, I could spend most of my time in front of my laptop coding. Meetings rarely appeared on my agenda. In fact, I had so few meetings that I was happy when ...
The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
A few weeks ago, I posted a review on The Choice, the first book for Dr. Edith Eger. It’s a book that is mostly an autobiography of a Holocaust survivor, but it’s much more than a recital of what h...
The big STL Algorithms tutorial: the memory header
We are slowly reaching the end of the big STL algorithm tutorial, and in this last but one part we are going to cover a record high 14 operations that are part of the <memory> header. I decid...