Great article by @kylelarryevans on Product Thinking vs. Project Thinking, and focusing on outcomes rather than output. https://productcoalition.com/product-thinking-vs-project-thinking-380692a2d4e
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Contraindications – Why Not C++?
2019-01-09 technorambler C++, Development No Comments
When I write about C++, I’m generally writing about some cool feature it has, or why I like it, or some other positive context for using C++ to solve a problem. But C++ isn’t the only language I use, and – while it’s intended as a general-purpose tool – I don’t think anyone seriously proposes […]
C++ Smart Pointers
2018-10-04 technorambler C++, Development No Comments
From C to C++98 to “Modern C++”, memory management ‘best practice’ has been one of the most changeable things in this family of languages. C’s basic memalloc and free functions for allocating and releasing heap memory were replaced with C++’s more sophisticated new and delete keywords, which, in turn, are being supplanted by the so-called […]
PyCon Talk – A Web Without JavaScript
2018-08-27 technorambler Development, Web No CommentsThis is a great talk from this year’s PyCon AU. The speaker is one of the core developers on the Django project, and he’s talking about some of the ways in which interactive content and code can be executed in web pages (i.e. on the browser side) without coding in JavaScript. Great content, well-presented – […]
So YAML and JSON Aren’t Cool Any More?
2018-08-24 technorambler Development, Standards No Comments
YAML, JSON and Config Files Some years ago, one of my very first blog posts was a piece on how terribly XML fails its essential design goals. I mentioned that YAML or JSON were much better compromise solutions to the essential problem of expressing data in a form that is easily readable by both people […]
The “auto” Keyword
2018-07-11 technorambler C++, Development No CommentsFor those of us migrating from C or pre-2011 C++, the auto keyword in Modern C++ can have us scratching our heads a bit, when we first encounter it. Initially, auto seems to run counter to the generally strong typing philosophy of C++. Declaring variable types has been drilled into us very early on, so […]
Old Man C++ (part 4): Redux
2018-06-22 technorambler C++, Development No Comments
So I never wrote that next article on DLLs. It’s five years since I wrote my “Old Man C++” series of blog posts on the changes I’ve observed in the software development world since I ‘came up’ in the mid-90s. I was going to talk about Windows DLLs, and all wonderful and horrific things that […]
C++ Coding Conventions – Consensus Achievement Unlocked
2018-06-20 technorambler C++, Development No CommentsJust today, I welcomed a new co-worker to my organisation. Until now, I’ve been the only C++ guy in the place, but this person is also a C++ dev, and will be working with me on a component that I’ve been building since the beginning of the year. So today we’ve been getting to know […]
“We Only Hire Geniuses”
2016-06-23 technorambler Development, Process No Comments
Genius: an exceptionally intelligent person or one with exceptional skill in a particular area of activity – Oxford English Dictionary, via Bing More than once in my career as a software engineer, I’ve come across organisations that make the bold claim that “we only hire geniuses”, or words to that effect. This always puzzles me […]
Old Man C++ (part 3)
2013-06-19 technorambler C++, Development No Comments In the first post of this series of ramblings (er… history lessons from my point of view) I made the statement that “C++ used to be viewed as the cool kids’ language – now it’s what the old guys make the cool kids use as a form of punishment”. I was only partly joking. C++ […]