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C++ cout crashes during concurrent usage with boost’s threads under embedded Linux

Last week I was testing my C++ concurrent priority queue for HTTP requests with std::cout printing on the console output for possible race conditions. I was running my unit tests for some potential problems, when I found out that there was a crash of a unit test under embedded Linux. The same code was

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Thought of the day by Martin Fowler

You should use iterative development only on projects you want to succeed. - Martin

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C++ Heap Corruption Problem

In the last six months I am consulting a company in C++. Today my colleague and I find out a very tricky heap corruption. Below is presented a C++ snapshot with the heap corruption. Can you see the problem ? [cpp]string Core::ntos(unsigned int n){ string ts= ""; if( !n

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Thought Of The Day By Napoleon Hill

“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” — Napoleon

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TDD Bag Code Kata

Practice of Bag code kata. For any references please see the link below http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/lectures/13StacksAndQueues.pdf Stress Testing of Passive Object (Bag) for any references please see the book Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests TDD rules which I follow from Jason

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You can’t be a warrior, if you have read the manual for the sword!

Recently, I quit my job, in order to write my Ph.D. thesis. Now I have more time for practicing TDD. Don't ask me why I didn't have time to do it before. ;-) The result of TDD code katas practicing is realized habits for every day usage. In most cases the work out habits

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Testing is developers’ job not testers’

When I started working as a developer, I didn't work with a tester. So I keep thinking that quality and testing of the code is developer's job, and Gojko Adzic presentation confirms my understanding of software development process on some way. Take a look the Gojko Adzic presentation with his QA analysis about Greece

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