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C/C++ Coding Conventions

November 11, 2022
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Every developer has opinions on coding standards. I am no exception.  If you are looking for the one Coding Convention […]

Colony.Pico gone Wireless

November 2, 2022
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 |  Colony.*, Raspberry Pi Pico

My latest progress with the Raspberry Pi Pico: the PicoW. I have purchased a new Pimoroni Automation 2040W board for […]

Requirements: Itemized or Storied?

October 27, 2022
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Open question: Should requirements be an itemized list/database of statements or a storied theory-of-operation document with diagrams, tables, formulas, etc.? […]

Never Trust the Software Guys: Only developers can prevent Header Path pollution

October 19, 2022
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 |  Never Trust the Software Guys

Shameless paraphrased from the Smokey Bear Wildfire Prevention campaign slogan: “Only You Can Prevent Wildfires”.  Only developers can prevent Header […]

Auto populating Lists in C++ at compile time

October 12, 2022
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Before I get into the how to auto-populate lists, let’s talk about why I would want to.  Auto populating lists […]

Never Trust the Software Guys. Engineer, Craftsman, or Artist?

October 4, 2022
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Is developing software a science? Is it a skilled trade with master craftsmen and apprentices? Or is it art form? […]

Limitless Containers without dynamic memory allocation in C/C++.

September 25, 2022
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 |  Colony.*, General

Lists, FIFOs, dictionaries, maps, etc. are handy-dandy data structures when designing and implementing code.  However, most container implementations either use […]

Never Trust the Software Guys: Why is writing software hard?

September 23, 2022
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 |  Never Trust the Software Guys

My first response is a yet more questions. Is the question why is writing software hard about an individual software […]

Never Trust the Software Guys: Software is always late

September 18, 2022
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 |  Never Trust the Software Guys

This posting is the first in a series of postings (okay rants) on what goes wrong with software development, my […]

Visual Studio — not just a desktop IDE

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 |  Colony.*, General

Visual Studio is one of the better C/C++ source code editors available today that provides Intelligent Code Completion and source code […]

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