Wow! I’ve neglected my blog. With another passing year and a successful project or two behind me, it is certainly time to sit down and a share a few thoughts. While I have previously enumerated various reasons for my preference for C++, in this post I am focusing entirely on the C++ RAII idiom, what … More Why I prefer C++: “RAII All The Things!”
I agreed to four hours. Four hours to help hunt down and kill a bug. A terrible malicious bug that was eating away at this project, wreaking havoc upon the foundations of a critical feature, and draining time randomly from every one of eight firmware engineers on this project. Quite honestly, I can’t remember the … More The Hardest Bug I Never Solved
I recently (Nov 2018) googled this blog title‘s and was surprised by the lack search results with a simple clear list of C++ commonly used namespaces. Obviously there could be millions of namespaces in use, but this page will attempt to catalog “common” namespaces to help developers avoid collision when starting development of their own … More List of Well Known C++ namespaces
I am an odd sort of person. Why? Because I love a well written and descriptive bug report. I love a case that includes clear and easy to follow reproduction steps. I love a written bug report that includes all the necessary information on versions, configurations, connections and other system details. Why? Because I believe … More How to Write A Great Bug Report
In the firmware and embedded software engineering domains, engineers overwhelmingly choose C as their language of choice. Evidence of this may be seen in the following screen-grab of a presentation by Dan Saks at CppCon2016. I would recommend the entire presentation, which may be found here: https://youtu.be/D7Sd8A6_fYU Selecting C over C++ is a reasonable and conservative choice, especially … More Why I love C++11 for Embedded Software and Firmware (or C++14, or…)
Every now and then I find myself inspired by the smallest of changes and improvements to a product, changes which create a real impact on product usability and quality of life for all concerned. These product improvements are inevitably found to be driven by a person of empathy, someone who took the time to think … More Coffee, Empathy, and User Experience
My new post over at embeddedrelated.com, enumerates specialities of embedded software. I hope this post is useful to the “tenderfoots” in the audience. Take a look here: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1080.php Thanks! Matthew
