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Blogs on Software Engineering

Here are posts and articles covering more general software engineering topics.

Management & Leadership

• Repetition, Repetition, Repetition - Lessons from Sports Management that cross over to software engineering.

• I think you’ll find it’s more complicated than that - Knowledge Transfer opportunities in Agile ceremonies.

• Becoming a Coach - Considerations on becoming a volunteer Sports Coach.

• Think on Paper - Clarifying your thought process and helping your decision making.

Cybersecurity

• A Short History on the Evolution of Antimalware - A brief outline of how malware and antimalware have co-evolved over the decades and an outline of the various technology components that make up a modern-day endpoint protection and detection solutions.

• Platform Challenges facing AV Vendors - An examination of the challenges faced by AV vendors in meeting modern day platform needs.

Design

• Be considerate in your API design, but not overly so - An example of when being overly helpful can be to the detriment of your API design.

• Antipattern - STL Inheritance - An explanation as to why you probably don’t want to inherit from that STL container

• Template Extension in C++ - A note on how templates are extended in the STL to ‘borrow’ behaviour compared to how OO inheritance achieves it.

Performance Engineering

• Eliminating Heap Memory Allocations in Queues - A pattern for managing event queues efficiently in Java (i.e. ToggleQueue).

Designing the ‘espresso’ Library

• Design Considerations & Influences - Thoughts and influences on the design of the espresso library.

• Object Creation Patterns - Discussion on constructors and factory classes, as applied to the espresso library.

• Utilizing Manager Objects - Discussion on the advantages of deploying a manager object and the separation of function.

Developing C++ with Visual Studio

• Hard Won Lessons - Lessons learned from ignoring Compiler Warnings.

• Visual Studio Build Output Tips - Some practical tips for handling verbose build output in Visual Studio.