April 2023
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LockExplorer is no more
I’ve finally done what I should have done several years ago and shut down the LockExplorer site. I haven’t had the time required to keep the tool up to date and fewer people were interested than I originally expected. I may make … -
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Currently reading - Rust Brain Teasers
I’m currently reading Rust Brain Teasers by Herbert Wolverson. It’s a nice book of bite-sized puzzles in Rust that are ideal for the way I like to learn (randomly jumping around from subject to subject that happen to interest … -
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Practical Testing: 39 - 19 years' unit testing the same code
Back in 2004 I started a series of blog posts called “Practical Testing”, about unit testing a non-trivial piece of C++ code. The idea was to show how adding unit tests to existing, real-world, code could be useful and could … -
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Adventures with \Device\Afd
I’ve been playing around with Rust recently and whilst investigating asynchronous programming in Rust I was looking at Tokio, an async runtime. From there I started looking at Mio, the cross-platform, low-level, I/O code that Tokio … -
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VS2022 Version 17.6.0 Preview 3.0 - Standard Library Modules warnings (std.ixx)
So, this morning I’m back from my Easter break and working on some code for a client and the first thing I do is kick off my CI build and things start failing. It seems that my “cunning plan” to have my CI build use the … -
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GoogleTest - the first test
I’m in the process of investigating GoogleTest and the experience has been interesting. I’ve been unit testing code and doing Test Driven Development for a long time now; almost 20 years and I’m still learning. I’ve … -
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Practical Testing: 40 - Code updates and new functionality
Nineteen years ago I began a series of blog posts, called “Practical Testing”, about testing real-world, multi-threaded code. As with most code that works well, and is used by lots of people, we’re still changing it and … -
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Practical Testing: 41 - GoogleTest
I’ve been writing a series of blog posts, called “Practical Testing”, about testing real-world, multi-threaded code. Up until now I’ve used my own, home grown, unit testing framework. When I started out with this … -
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Building OpenSSL 3.x for x86 and x64 on Windows for side by side deployment
Back in August 2012 I shared my scripts for building OpenSSL on Windows. These have changed a little since the ones I had for the 1.0.x and 0.9.x releases of OpenSSL. The main idea is the same, the scripts build the OpenSSL code as both … -
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The cost of encapsulation
I’m debugging performance issues with a C++ server that has been stalling and then failing to recover. I’ve reached a point where we can generate the problem using a network interruption that causes multiple connections to … -
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Quick and dirty analysis of memory allocations in Visual Studio code
Yesterday I was bemoaning encapsulation and how it was hiding what was going on inside my objects (and quite right too, what good would it be otherwise?). The issue is that the object I was interested in, and each of the objects that formed …
