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Hey CLion, quick: Catch!

I am glad I finally made up my mind and bought a personal license for CLion. And just one day after CLion 1.1 came out. A few episodes of CppCast had left me

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Books

Cucumber

I finally finished reading the “Cucumber book”. I started reading this book a while ago. Even before I finished reading it I was already convinced of the benefits of human readable executable specifications

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Tools C++

A Better way to ask cmake for a C++ standard

A while back I wrote a post about how to set the c++ standard with cmake. It revolved around setting the CXX_STANDARD and optionally CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED properties. I have since found this technique does not work as nicely

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C++

CppCast

I listen to few technology oriented podcasts, but up until recently I was yet to find a podcast focusing on C++. This has changed now that I found CppCast. Its tagline is "The

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Tools

Hyperpolyglot

Back in 2012 I tweeted this: Is there a c++/java dictionary? Stuff like this would make sense for teaching new languages to programmers. Languages do overlap a lot.— ruipires (@ruipires) August 2, 2012

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C++ Tools

Biicode

I have been meaning to try biicode for a while now. I have heard about it in blog posts, in podcasts, and I have been looking for a tool like that. I have

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Articles C++

Unicode in C++

While looking for good resources to learn a little bit more about Unicode, and how to support it in my C++ applications, I stumbled upon this great video from the C++Now 2014 conference.

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Rants

my comments about redundant comments

It is generally a good idea to think about why you are doing things the way you currently doing them. Sometimes you are faced with a new situation, and don't quite know what

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Tools

My VIM configuration - part I

I have been using Vim and gVim for a few years now. Vim has a steep learning curve (but there are great tutorials out there), but its worth it, as it is a very

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Books Interviews C++

Gang of Four interviewed 20 years later

The software engineering radio podcast has a very interesting interview with the Gang of Four members, from "Software Design Patterns" fame. It is roughly 75 minutes, but it is really nice seeing them

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