Recently, before boarding a flight up to Hamilton Island for a $WORK junket conference, I purchased a puzzle book. On the flight, I shared the puzzles amongst colleagues, and fun was had. One particularly tricky puzzle confounded us all, although I recognised it as a variant of the Monty Hall problem. Alarm bells should be [...]
Not all software development projects can sustain a reasonable living. Anyone who has worked as a professional developer will take this truth as self-evident. It’s a sad occurance, but often developers for notionally worthy projects find themselves having to abandon their dreams and find gainful employment elsewhere. The failed startup and the abandoned open-source project [...]
Some of the criticism of the Blogging Horror article was based on my insistence that knowledge of the C language is essential for all software developers. Some even said I was “bigoted” for such a viewpoint, because there are many other worthy languages out there. And there certainly are. But they are not all created [...]
<movie -trailer-guy> Many months ago he attempted Tim Bray’s first Wide Finder in C++, mainly as a coding exercise. Back then the goal was readability and conciseness. This time … it’s performanceal. </movie>
If you’re at all interested in computing technology you can’t help but be amazed at the advances in CPU power over the last few decades, Moore’s Law, blah blah blah. But a few seconds pondering this invariably provokes the question as to how long this party can last.
The commonly accepted wisdom is that CPUs have [...]
Have you been following Tim Bray’s Wide Finder project? It’s an exercise to express a fairly simple task in a manner that will scale across multiple CPU cores. Some of Tim’s initial progress with Erlang, and other contributors in different languages, is quite fascinating.
Like Tim I was also amused at Pete Kirkham’s C++ implementation [...]
Yes, another C++ post. Yes, I’ve been doing a lot of it lately.
Recently on WorseThanFailure there have been several incidences of functions intended to perform relatively simple string manipulation tasks. Being worthy of posting to WTF, they have of course been hilariously over-long, complicated and bug-ridden. One recent example was attempting to compare two strings [...]
On a whim, I attempted Dave Thomas’ Kata Four in C++. Yes that’s right, C++.
Here’s what I ended up with, feel free to throw peanuts.
Gather around for a tale of adventure in the land of Linux c++ programming.
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