An enum combined with a lookup table presents a unique code maintenance concern. Learn more in this post.
Category: Favorite Code Tricks
A survey of concurrency bugs
Concurrency is hard. Multithreaded code is hard. This post surveys common concurrency related bugs and outlines possible solutions.
Unit Testing of Active Objects and State Machines
How do we unit test an active object or state machine? This post explores techniques for successful unit testing of modules driven by state machines.
UML Statechart tip: Be wary of exit-state behavior
Be wary of exit-state driven behavior when designing for UML statecharts.
Why I prefer C++: “RAII All The Things!”
Learn how the C++ RAII idiom enables better code with reduced maintenance overhead.