A friend had a weird bug while working in C++ last week. As sometimes it’s required he had to convert a string to an integer and instead of writing: auto result = (SomeEnum) (stoi(s, nullptr, 10)); He wrote this: auto result = (SomeEnum) (stoi(s, nullptr), 10); Such a simple case of misplaced parenthesis caused the … Continue reading Take care when using comma in C++
These days a .NET developer can create, test and deploy powerful software without breaking sweat. Writing a scalable, easily deployable performant ASP.NET Core microservice is easier than ever. The cool thing about using Docker is run automated tests against that soon-to-be-written service in an environment that was quickly created and immediately disposed once the testing … Continue reading Develop (and test) a dockerized, PostgreSQL backed, ASP.NET Core microservice in less than an hour
In his post Beware of Productivity Tools Mark Seemann explains why he shun from using so called “productivity tools” – tools like Resharper, CodeRush, JustCode or any other tool that is runs on top of Visual Studio in order to enhance development. While I don’t know Mark personally, I’m in the middle of his book … Continue reading Be-aware of productivity tools
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