C++ Tools 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
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
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
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
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.
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
C++ Tools Setting the c++ standard using cmake Note: I have written an update to this post here. I'm currently trying to convert an existing code base from Makefiles to CMake. I'm doing this in order to showcase the advantages we
C++ Tools Taking CMake for a spin Another page on the battle of build systems, I am now moving on to CMake, after giving SCons a try. The ryppl project by Dave Abrahams et al to give the C++ community
C++ Tools NuGet for c++ I'll be keeping an eye on NuGet. It sounds like it can be usefull. According to wikipedia, "NuGet is a free and open source package manager for the .NET Framework.(...)NuGet can be used
C++ Tools Examples Enabling C++11 in Qt Creator I'm trying Qt Creator out, and had some dificulty figuring out how to enable C++11 support. After all, the best way to lear how to use the new features is to, well, to