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Bazaar 2.2 has been released

Bazaar 2.2 has been released recently. For those who don’t know it: Bazaar is a very nice distributed revision control system, similar to git and mercurial. Where Bazaar really shines is the ease-of-use, good documentation and good interop with other … Continue reading

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Build engineering

Do you have one-click-builds for your whole project? That’s a good question (so good that you should ask it before you get employed), but if the answer is no, chances are high that your team has not dedicated enough time … Continue reading

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C++ unit testing frameworks revisited

For a long time, I’ve been using UnitTest++ for all of my C++ unit testing needs. UnitTest++ is a very nice and small unit testing library, which covers all basic needs and is very easy to integrate with a project. … Continue reading

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Avoid unsigned types by default

For some reason or another, unsigned types in C++ are heavily overused. I know that Java doesn’t have them, and many students who learn programming with Java think this is a really serious deficiency which they have to make up … Continue reading

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