You head over to your favourite link site and click one of the pictures — or let’s be honest, you ctrl+click all the pictures. Your browser is filled with tabs of cute […]
Hidden complexity in cute animal pictures
A real cost of low performing applications
The platform as a service model adds new importance to the performance of our software. Despite ever decreasing hardware costs, metered services make every bit count. My previous article on performance touched […]
Why do we need pointers/references?
Below I’ve tried to catalog some of the typical uses of references in programming. My aim is to clarify the role references play in a language to help me decide how they […]
How to handle an error
Error handling should be simple. It can become mired in complexity, but I don’t believe it has to be that way. If we stay focused on fundamentals, what seems like a difficult […]
Of Faults and Errors: Who’s to blame?
Is there a difference between a “fault” and an “error” within a computer program? A number of people commented on my previous article suggesting this to be the case. I will try […]
Antiquated Error Handling: abort/exit
The abort function is a remnant of old programming practices, and it pains me to see it in modern software. While it’s great that a program detects an error, calling abort is […]
Performance is irrelevant
Asking questions about performance online universally invites scorn and accusation. A large number of programmers apparently feel that the efficiency of code is nowadays insignificant. So long as the functional requirements have […]
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