I’ve used conan and vcpkg with varying levels of success. Recently, I came across CPM.cmake and it works quite well with the projects I have used it in. For getting CPM.cmake in your own CMake project, you have to download the CPM.cmake code: The above code will download the CMake module and after that, you … Read more
Previously … We connected to our local JSON server using a console app, writen in Swift: Making a connection using Swift In this article, we are going to do the same thing, this time using C++. Libraries Swift comes with a large library of functionality, including classes to connect to a REST server. The … Read more
An introduction on the server technology and how to connect your app to a web endpointIntroThis is the first article, in a series. By the end of the series, you should be able to connect your app, whether macOS, iOS, console, to a REST endpoint. There are a lot of articles on the internet that … Read more
You know, I was getting quite comfortable with Obj-C, C++11, and everything else I had learned over the years… now Apple has to go and introduce another language: Swift I don’t know what to make of it. How much better can it be than Obj-C? I guess I’ll find out over the course of the … Read more
Right now, I’m reviewing code I copied into my own code branch (p4) and I’m finding that I’m doing something I thought I’d never do. I’m actually lining up functions and parameters into columns. I have to admit, it’s much easier to read code this way then when code is all smushed together. Now, I … Read more
Here is a tool that looks quite interesting: SymbolSort
Last week I was fortunate to attend the GoingNative 2012 seminar hosted at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu, Stephan T. Lavavej, Chandler Carruth, Hans Boehm, and Andrew Sutton gave presentations at this seminar. If you don’t know who they are, you can easily look them up since they are all very … Read more
I was introduced to Cyclomatic Complexity at Eric Rimbley’s course at Construx; I was facinated with the topic and found a tool that works with Visual Studio 2010 that gathers this metric: http://www.blunck.info/ccm.html
I found this site by accident, sporting the stylish Visual C++ 6 logo: http://www.bogotobogo.com/cplusplus/cpptut.php It is pretty funny to read the tutorial on multithreading, given how new it was back then to a lot of developers and today, it’s becoming the new norm: http://www.bogotobogo.com/cplusplus/multithreaded.php
I had to do some fancy debugging of a C++ dylib and while I was searching around the internet, I came accross this article from Apple: C++ features in MacOS X. I also found two cool articles that describe well how the dlopen application works and what happens to your symbols when an application bundle … Read more