This blog is about how I use windows as a professional software engineer. What windows settings I customize and what tools I use to make my daily work as pleasing and productive as possible. Performance and usability enhancements Some of these settings are particularly well suited for virtual machines, use common sense to judge whether Read more about Optimize Windows 10 for Software Development[…]
A software review? This is the first review I’ve even written as a blog post on my nullptr.nl website. Why start now? I considered whether I wanted to associate myself with any particular software and never really felt the need. However, in this case I was asked to review Deleaker by the author Artem Razin Read more about Review: Deleaker, C++ memory leak detection[…]
I couple of years ago, I was looking for new ways to improve myself. I had done several trainings on C++, C#, software processes, communication, leadership, etc. However, I was not really finding want I felt I needed to improve myself. This is of course, very subjective, the courses were good, I learned things, but Read more about How to learn more as a C++ software engineer?[…]
Updated Debugview++ with a few new features tailing urls now also works if https certificates are broken crop to selected is experimental (use with care) more descriptive termination messages
Some time ago, I decided I had an object I wanted to share the ownership of. Here is a very contrived example: class Foo { public: void SetInfo(const std::string& value) { info = value; } std::string GetInfo() { return info; } private: std::string info; }; class Bar { void SetFoo(std::shared_ptr<Foo> aFoo) { foo = aFoo; Read more about std::shared_ptr<> broken?[…]