Since people messaged me directly about Medical Device Developer Linux this requires more posts. Quite possibly I’ll have to add a “user forum” to this blog. Doubtful many of you will post though given the secured environments some of you message from. I didn’t want to put more thought into it right away so thanks for that! :P Our featured image was provided by blog.giddyup.io. Scope Younger developers have been a bit confused about the … Medical Device Developer Linux – Pt. 2Read more
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C++ — Never Do’s
No, Never Do isn’t a new loop type though it can be what happens when you ASS-U-ME a default value for a loop variable. These are some things you should never do in your code. I’ve spent nearly 40 years in IT now. For the past decade I’ve been working in the medical device realm. Prior to that I wrote great big boring systems for great big companies. This be what you don’t do in … C++ — Never Do’sRead more
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C++ — That Const Thing
Const is what makes C++ great. Const is what makes C++ too horrible to work with. Developers who read those “Effective” books on C++ really screw the pooch. The developers working on the Qt library who hide everything anyone would want to override inside a “private” class only documented in the source file for the actual class and buried behind a macro passing most everything to it as const make the “screw the pooch” developers … C++ — That Const ThingRead more
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The Myth of QML
I have railed against the incredibly poor design of QML for years. Even wrote about The Death of Commercial Application Frameworks because just like the RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools of the 1990s, they have run their course. If you want to read more about the RAD tool era read this book. Only in a shop using Agile could such a horrible design ever get considered. In a real Software Engineering shop that uses Waterfall … The Myth of QMLRead more
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A std::vector Example and Explanation
If you want a really good method of identifying a legacy C++ library/framework, see if it provides a vector class. For C this would be a set of vector functions. Arrays in C and C++ are hard coded at compile time. This dates back to the beginning of the languages. During the early 1980s VAX BASIC was the only widely used programming language supporting dynamic arrays. You may not be familiar with BASIC but the … A std::vector Example and ExplanationRead more