During the last month or so, we examined the ins and outs of C++ concepts. We checked their main motivations, we saw how we can use them with functions, with classes and what kind of concepts are s...
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Taleb
I read once again a very interesting book by Nassim Taleb. I realized that I don’t just like his books, but I sympathize with the author, with his style, with his sarcasm. More than that, I like th...
How to write your own C++ concepts? Part II.
Last week we started to discuss how to write our own concepts. Our first step was to combine different already existing concepts, then we continued with declaring constraints on the existence of ce...
You have to ask for it!
This is an excerpt from by book called The Seniority Trap. I’m sharing some parts from each chapter. Check out the #thesenioritytrap for more parts. — I’ll tell you what. Those people who reject ...
How to write your own C++ concepts? Part I.
During the previous weeks, we discussed the motivations behind C++ concepts and how to use them with functions and with classes. But we have hardly written any. We defined a functionally incomplete...
Concepts shipped with the C++ standard library
Welcome back to the series about C++ concepts. In the previous episodes, we discussed what are the motivations behind concepts, and then how to use them. Today we are going to have an overview of w...
Clean Agile: Back to Basics by Robert C. Martin
Clean Agile comes from Uncle Bob, one of the founding fathers of Agile, one of the seventeen people who authored the Agile Manifesto back in 2001. I thought he might have some interesting thoughts...
C++ concepts with classes
Last time we discussed how to use concepts with functions and this time we are going to see how to use concepts with classes. I know it’s not what I promised at the end of the previous article, but...
What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography by Bruce Dickinson
What a great title, what a good way to live a meaningful life! Ask questions and be curious all the time! I took this book into my hands as Ryan Holiday recommended it and I like heavy metal, in ...
4 ways to use C++ concepts in functions
Welcome back to the series on C++ concepts. In the previous article we discussed what are the motivations behind concepts, why we need them. Today we are going to focus on how to use existing conce...