As a software developer you go through different phases in your personal development. Many, but far from all, end up valuing simple code. Simple does not imply that the code doesn’t do what it needs to do, it means that the code is written in a way that puts minimal cognitive load on the human …
What are your thoughts when you see a job ad where they are looking for a C/C++ developer? Personally I have always wondered what ”C/C++” means. Do they know that C and C++ are different languages? That C is a procedural language and C++ is an object oriented language and writing modern C++ code is …
In C++ there are many ways to pass an argument to a function. The following code shows some commonly used variants. It is also possible to add the const keyword at different places when passing by pointers to make either the pointer const or the value the pointer is pointing at const, or both. You …
One thing that I have bothered me quite a lot when coding in C# is a good way to indicate the absence of a value. There are a few different alternatives how this can be done, the most common being using null. However, using null instead of an actual type quite often leads to crashes …
Recently I have been practicing my typing speed and accuracy. When you do a lot of typing on a daily basis it can be a good idea to ramp up your typing speed. It is said that the average typing speed is about 40 words per minute (WPM). For this measure a ”word” is standardized …
In high school I studied electronics and computer systems, and then I continued on with software engineering for a short period before switching over to electrical engineering where I received my master’s degree in electronic system design. After graduation I wrote software for large embedded systems for a number of years before switching over to …
Recently I stumbled across a model called ”C4” that is designed to help visualize software architecture. After reading through the C4 website, https://c4model.com/, and looking at the conference talk by Simon Brown, I felt that this was something I should explore more in depth. My, very personal, opinion is that we as software designers have …
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It’s been a while since I finished Get Programming with F# by Isaac Abraham but I haven’t come around to review it, until now. Learning functional programming has been one of my personal goals this year. I started out with Functional Programming in C# by Enrico Buonanno which explains a lot of the concepts of …
I recently watched Mads Torgersen’s video presentation of C# 9 from Microsoft Build and also read his presentation on the same topic titled Welcome to C# 9.0. It is obvious that the C# team is heavily inspired by functional programming and many of the new features have equivalents in F# (where they have existed for …
If you and your development team are using a Kanban board then you are familiar with the term WIP limit. WIP is short for Work In Progress and the idea is that putting a limit on the amount of ongoing work will help the team focus on the most important work and getting more work …