Since I posted my “Sling Blade Runner” answer, I’ve been in discussion with Benjamin Meyer about the puzzle, my solution, and other general topics. During this discussion, he shared his solution with me, and as a collaboration, we found a set of movie titles that is 326 movies long. The original list of [...]
Lately, I’ve been without a project to keep me busy at nights (hence all my blog posts). I’m learning python, but since my main gig is C/C++, I like to keep those skills sharp with little puzzles. While looking for interesting coding puzzles, I stumbled across a page at ITA Software that asks [...]
Recently, I’ve been writing a fair amount of threaded C++ POSIX code, and (as I often do), I decided to wrap the POSIX mutexes in a convenient little wrapper class:
class Mutex
{
pthread_mutex_t mMutex;
public:
Mutex() { pthread_mutex_init(&mMutex, NULL); }
~Mutex() { pthread_mutex_destroy(&mMutex); }
void [...]
I don’t want my blog to become a C++ lovefest, but I just seem to keep running into possible topics within the language to post about.
Recently, I ran across an article on embedded.com by Alan Anderson. I love everything he says in the article, save one paragraph:
Given the drawbacks to all of these approaches, [...]
DebugStream (low overhead C++ printf debugging)Although I currently don’t use it much, I fancy myself a bit of a C++ programmer. Over the years, I’ve accumulated a number of neat C++ coding tricks. For example, while in graduate school, I met Jeff Squyres who taught me a neat little C++ technique that I have used often since then. [...]