Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review
Most of the projects I’ve been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I’ve...
View ArticleCheck Plus: An EDSL for writing unit tests in C
Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known projects. It includes features such as running all tests in separate address spaces (using fork(2)),...
View ArticleSome musings on ORMs
I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application, particularly a web-app, has a love/hate relationship with their ORM, or object-relational mapper. On the...
View ArticleUsing Haskell’s ‘newtype’ in C
A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple types of data that share the same representation. Classic examples include differentiating between...
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