Prehistory In the middle of 2010 I started working on a little side project. It was originally meant to be a test framework for Objective-C (I wasn’t happy with OCUnit, at the time, and I didn’t find any other options). But the framework was written in a mix of Objective-C++ and plain C++. So before long the focus shifted to being a C++ test framework first (but the Objective-C part remained). I…
You probably shouldn’t read this post. It breaks several of the top rules in blog post content authorship: apologising for not posting in a while, explaining why, and promising to post more in the future. So if that sounds dull, you can (and should) skip this one. There will be more interesting posts in the future - I promise. This post is mostly for myself - and just to feel like I’m drawing a…
The title might read a little like click-bait, and there are certainly some nuances and qualifications here. But, hey! That's what the article is for. Those that know me know that I have been a practitioner of, and advocate for, TDD in C++ for many years. I originally introduced Catch in an attempt to make that easier. I've given many talks that touch on the subject, as well as giving coaching and…
There has been a recent stirring of attention, in the C++ community, for the practice of always placing the const modifier to the right of the thing it modifies. The practice has even been gifted a catchy name: East Const (which, I think, is what has stirred up the interest). As purely a matter of style it's fascinating that it seems to have split the community so strongly! There are cases for and…
(* Probably) Last week my London based C++ user group, C++ London , joined forces with SwedenCpp , based in Stockholm, for a distributed event where we shared video streams with each other. The whole thing was hosted by King , who took care of the audio-visual link up, so we just had to organise the speakers. We did this as a series of lightning talks (5 or 10 minutes each) - 5 in Stockholm and 7…