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Exceptions or not?

I've always had mixed feelings for exceptions. First of all exceptions should only be used for exceptional things, not things that are expected. For example if you open a file it may fail for several reasons; it does not exists, you do not have rights Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:01 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Remember to allocate memory just in case you run out of memory

Today I read this blog post about how all .Net applications create three exceptions upon start; System.ExecutionEngineException, System.StackOverflowException and System.OutOfMemoryException. The reason is that if these are not allocated from the start, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 9:04 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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A reminder if you want to read/write your file in non blocking mode (in C(++))

Sometimes you might want to read a file non-blocking . It could be /dev/random because waiting for entropy might take very long. Also when you have to read device files on unix you sometimes have to read them non-blocking. A common pattern is to open Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:16 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Dangers of using Visual Studio 2008 Team System Code Coverage Tool for Native C++

So now you know how to get coverage reports for native C++ using Visual Studio 2008 Team System (if not - read this ). There are a few things you need to know before you get excited. First of all the only metrics you get are line and block coverage. A Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:18 PM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Native C++ Code Coverage reports using Visual Studio 2008 Team System

The code coverage tool in Visual Studio 2008 Team System is quite easy to use from within the IDE unless you want code coverage for your native C++ code. In order to generate a code coverage report for native C++ you have to use the command line tools. Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:16 AM by cellfish | 6 Comments
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C++ pointer basics for kids

A little video to explain pointer basics in C++ to your kids... If you for some weird reason want to do that... Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 9:18 AM by cellfish | 3 Comments
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Sleep does not sleep for a specified period

I recently described how you can create your own usleep method when there isn't one to use. one thing that people however tend to forget is that the sleep methods (sleep, usleep, nanosleep) only guarantees that the calling thread will be suspended for Read More...
Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 7:38 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Sleep less than one millisecond

On windows you have a problem you typically never encounter on Unix. That is how to get a thread to sleep for less than one millisecond. On Unix you typically have a number of choices (sleep, usleep and nanosleep) to fit your needs. On windows however Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:09 PM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Mocks are not Stubs

As many before me I was recently looking at different mocking frameworks in order to find one that suited my needs, and was written in C++. And there are not many alternatives out there if you're using C++. I've found one open source and two internal Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:24 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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MFC is not dead

When I wrote my master's thesis was the first time I came in to contact with VC++ and MFC. I worked with MFC and VC++ quite a lot for a number of years but the last four or five years have not had much MFC work in it. When the .Net framework came along Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:24 AM by cellfish | 6 Comments
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