Are you a C++ programmer who works with Python programmers? Are you fed up with them banging on about their “Python Philosophy”? Do you feel like beating them over the head with your compiler every time they witter on about using 4 space intending? Does the fact they continuously try to convince you enforced white space syntax is a good thing just make you want to hurl chunks? If so, what you need is “The Zen Of C++”!
Coding the Fibonacci Sequence
Introduction
In this tutorial we’re going to look at how to calculate the Fibonacci numbers in code. We’ll use two different approaches to this, iterative and recursive, and we’ll examine the pros and cons of both. This tutorial assumes you already know what the Fibonacci numbers are and so I make no attempt to explain the maths behind them.
A sad day for scrobbles everywhere
As from Yesterday I am no longer gainfully employed by Last FM. After a lot of soul searching I have decided to move on. This decision was made in part because I feel I’d gone about as far as I could and in part because the vision of the future for the MIR team is one that I couldn’t really see myself being part of.
Is your password salty enough?
Passwords. They are ubiquitous. You can’t avoid them. Given all the amazing things that have been invented over the last 50 years or so there is still nothing that looks set to replace the humble password any time soon. Any thing you do online these days requires you to register an account. Often this is just unnecessary and just a way of companies harvesting your details to send you yet more targeted ads (spam!). Of course, registering necessitates yet another password.
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First Direct password fiasco
Why is my bank limiting my Internet Banking password? “It must be between 8 and 12 characters long and can include letters and numbers only.”. This flies in the fact of all best practice when it comes to passwords.
Hablo un poco de español.
About 7 years ago I decided I wanted to learn a little Spanish. I booked myself into a night class at the local university and spent about 4 months studying on a foundation course. I passed the course with an A grade; not conversational but enough of the basics to get by.
Madrid, Infinity08, Juan and something hideous!
I’ve just spent the last week in Madrid with my good friend Infinity08. We originally made friends on Experts Exchange have over the last few years we’ve become very good friends. Infinity08 lives in Brussels in Belgium. I, of course, live in the UK. Clearly, it isn’t always easy to maintain a friendship over a distance but we do ok. We make an effort to send each other e-mails, we talk on Skype and we try to hook up once or twice a year for a short break.
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The Cookie Monster!
Really starting to get fed up with having to accept cookies on all sites I now visit thanks to EU legislation. Ironically, these are the same cookies I’ve been accepting since the Internet Cookie was conceived.
Stop Reinventing C++ Wheels!
Necessity is the mother of invention
One thing that always amazes me is how often I see C++ programmers reinvent the wheel. The times I’ve seen engineers writing yet another sort routine or implementing their own version of a linked list, because they have a “special case” that necessitates it, just beggars belief. A “special case”? Really? Come on!
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