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Articles by Greg Utas (Articles: 13, Tip/Tricks: 2)
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Best practices
The Software Rewrite
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Open-heart surgery on your Big Ball of Mud
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Software Techniques for Lemmings
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Are we about to go over a cliff?
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Robust C++: Initialization and Restarts
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Structuring main() and quickly recovering from memory corruption
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No breakpoints or drooling all over the console!
Exceptions
Robust C++: Safety Net
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Keeping a program running when it would otherwise abort
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Robust C++: Object Pools
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Recovering from memory leaks
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Robust C++: P and V Considered Harmful
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Cleaving the Gordian knot of thread safety
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Automating help, validating user input, running scripts...
Robust C++: Operational Aspects
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The well-tempered server
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Registering and efficiently accessing polymorphic objects
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Implementing corruptible queues that don't manage memory
Robust C++: Singletons
22 Nov 2020 Updated:
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Yet another article on this topic?!
A Static Analysis Tool for C++
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Automating Scott Meyers' recommendations, cleaning up #include directives, and analyzing dependencies
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A Wrapper for std::vector [Tip/Trick]
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Replacing its erase() function
Adhering to a Silly Rule [Tip/Trick]
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A function may only return from its last line!
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Greg Utas
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Canada
Author of
Robust Services Core
(GitHub) and
Robust Communications Software
(Wiley, 2005). Formerly Chief Software Architect of the core network servers that handle the calls in AT&T's wireless network.
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