This article complements the previous on unique pointers. I have noticed that there is some confusion around how and when to design a function to take a shared pointer as an argument. The goal of this article is to provide guidelines for the different use cases that you may face. I just need access to …
When is the best time to add a new comment? Answer: before writing the code! You might think adding comments before code will be impossible, how can you know the details of the code before you have written it? Well, you can’t, and that is exactly why writing comments first will make your comments a …
Writing good comments is hard and as developers we have come up with several excuses to not write comments at all. In this post I will try to debunk some of the most common excuses for not writing comments and give some good reasons for writing them and how to write them so that they …
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 …
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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