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

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 post over at embeddedrelated.com, touches on some of the books and articles that have most influenced my engineering career. Take a look! https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1063.php  

Hi there… New post over on embeddedrelated.com From the article: So, why did I pause and take note of this particular code? We will skip over the eye catching “requires about” statement in the related code comment and focus on this primary issue, what experienced software engineers will immediately recognize as: “magic numbers” Read more … More Tenderfoot: Introduction to Magic (Numbers that is…)

In many software domains units of measurement are frequently critical to the software’s data processing requirements. Those same units, or rather the use of the wrong units, are often the source of bugs and disastrous mistakes. Although useful for other purposes, user-defined literals are an excellent addition to the C++11 standard and handy when working … More Favorite Tools: C++11 User-defined literals