Catch the advice

This will be a very short post to trace my solution to a strange error message I had from the linker while I was trying to modernize one of my first TDD project. The very short message is: Unless you have to provide your own main function the test harness ...

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Raise exceptions my way

As a programmer I want to be proud of what I write and I'm proud of those rare peace of code that I've written. In particular my aim is to be able to write a code that people can understand without dealing with all the details. A code ...

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Port projects to new tools

At work we use to touch projects as few as possible. To me this lead to bad problems on long term. For example we use to not upgrade our tools. I mean we not adopt modern language standard, new GUI libraries or file formats until we really need to. This ...

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A convenient approch for feature extractor

When I've start seriously using STL algorithms, I suddenly realized how much I miss a way to define anonymous class or functions. For example, it is a quite common need to run an STL algorithm based on some of the prooperty of object a container is holding. In this ...

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