How Python Wins New Friends
Explore Python's rise to popularity, its user-friendly features, and its impact on programming education and various industries.
These 10 Tricks That Only Library Implementors Know
Discover advanced C++ coding techniques used in standard library implementations, including empty base class optimization, allocator management, and exception safety.
There Is a Better Future
Explore advanced concurrency concepts, including improved futures and CSP channels, for creating efficient parallel task graphs and addressing limitations in std::future.
The Clacks in Discworld and Roundworld
Explore the fascinating parallels between Terry Pratchett's fictional Clacks system and real-world semaphore communication methods from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Finally Executors for C++
Explore C++ executors for asynchronous and parallel programming, covering motivation, requirements, interfaces, and practical examples. Learn about recent proposal developments and interactions with coroutines.
Common Webapp Vulnerabilities and What to Do About Them
Explore common web app vulnerabilities and practical mitigations based on the OWASP Top 10 List, focusing on injection attacks, authentication issues, and data exposure risks.
Read and Write Considered Harmful
Explores differences between reading and writing data across various topics, offering alternative approaches for improved system design and architecture.
C++17 - The Best Features
Explore key improvements in C++17, including core language and library enhancements, with expert insights on the most impactful and useful features for modern C++ development.
Monolithic Delivery
Explores the relationship between software design and delivery, challenging the notion of monolithic architecture and examining the potential misunderstandings in modern software development approaches.
Mocking Frameworks Considered Harmful
Explore test automation challenges, mocking frameworks' drawbacks, and alternative approaches for effective unit testing in C++. Learn refactoring techniques and simpler mocking solutions.
Parallel Design Patterns and Stream Parallelism
Explore parallel design patterns and stream parallelism using GrPPI, an experimental library for expressing parallelism through patterns, with focus on composability and multiple back-end support.
The Incredible Shrinking Standard
Explore C++'s evolution from C++98 to C++17, focusing on feature removals, their impact on the language, and how they shape emerging best practices in programming.
I Just Wanted to Point to Something
Comprehensive guide to pointer-like types in C++, exploring when to use references, pointers, smart pointers, and other alternatives for efficient and correct object referencing.
The Shape of a Program
Explore topology's application to programming, viewing code as a shape in time, space, causality, and possibility. Gain insights into program structure and design.
If You’re Happy and You Know It - Inside the Mind of a Developer
Explore the complexities of IT project communication, bridging the gap between developers and business stakeholders to improve understanding and avoid common pitfalls.
Debug C++ Without Running
Explore advanced C++ debugging techniques without running code, focusing on macros, templates, and preprocessor challenges. Learn IDE-based solutions for improved code analysis and development.
Hacker’s Guide to Rust Programming
Explore Rust's core concepts, including ownership, borrowing, traits, and error handling. Learn to build safe, fast, and concurrent systems with hands-on demos and essential tools.
Alchemical Code Rejuvenation
Hands-on workshop exploring techniques to refactor legacy code efficiently, focusing on separating and disentangling small bits of code at a time without risky rewrites. Learn to apply TDD for sustainable design in big code bases.
C++ API & ABI Versioning
Explore C++ API & ABI versioning techniques, focusing on compatibility, breaking changes, and versioning strategies to maintain libraries and adapt to client needs over time.
What's New About Fake News
Explore the interplay of technology and psychology in the spread of misinformation, and discover potential solutions to combat fake news in the digital age.
Concept Based Testing
Explore generic testing in C++17 using concepts, detection idiom, and constexpr if to verify concept implementations and guide class development for robust generic programming.