It is better to rust out than wear out. -- Edwin Markham Files for this tutorial are at: keypuncher/Rust/Intro/hello_world. I have heard a lot about Rust recently at work so I have decided to try it out to see what the fuss is all about. According to
“Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you’re also the murderer.” - Filipe Fortes https://www.pinterest.com/pin/825636544166469145/, https://fortes.com/filipe/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/fortes/ I have used the GNU (https://www.gnu.org/home.en.html) Project Debugger (https://sourceware.
It has been said that up to 80% of coding is debugging, and the other 20% is writing bugs! - Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques One of the most important skills developers can posses is how to debug. Debugging is a necessary evil in software engineering, although to some folks
"Simplicity boils down to two steps: identify the essential, eliminate the rest." – Leo Babauta https://leobabauta.com/ Introduction Early C++ templates behaved like a loosely defined macro‑based code generator. Modern C++20 and beyond templates are a constrained compile‑time language with predictable behavior, readable diagnostics, and
On Windows for my version of CMake the find_package searches this folder: C:\Program Files\CMake\share\cmake-4.2\Modules This is where the CMake Protobuf definitions are!
“A big stash allows me to have a fluid sense of creativity - a looseness that is very much like playing. It opens me up, unlocks things. The creative bit takes all the other pieces - the possibility, the abundance, the connections, and the actual work of making yarn - bundles them, and
"By dint of building well, you get to be a good architect." – Aristotle I have been using CMake since about 2008 for many of my C++ projects. I highly recommend it for cross-platform development. It can generate Makefiles, but for the last few years it has expanded
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. -- Winston Churchill Photo by "My Life Through A Lens" on Unsplash GNU Make is often included within a complex ecosystem of Integrated Development Environments, build systems (such as boost.build, CMake, ninja, SCons, and/or waf), and compilers. Some
Introduction GNU Make is a common tool for creating software among Linux developers. Other build systems include waf, cmake, autoconf, and ninja. A list of build systems can be found on Wikipedia. Advantages to using Make include: * It has been around a long time. As such, it is on most
“I don’t doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.” — Linus Torvalds per quotefancy.com This article would not be possible without
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.” - Charles Dickens Thanks a lot to Joshua Mitchell for reviewing and correcting this article! And thanks to my wife Evie who edits most of the content of all of my articles! Among the more common questions I get is about
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.” – William_Ellery_Channing Docker containers and images are all well and good for things like isolation, consistency, and relatively straightforward scalability. But what if we have a need to remember things between container runs such as populating a