To be a productive developer good editor/IDE is essential. On Windows nothing could beat Microsoft Visual Studio (in my opinion). On Linux I don’t have enough experience to make decision yet. For small projects Microsoft[…]
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Category: Tools
Qt + CMake = Easy Life
Do you want to be able build GUI application once and run it on Window and Linux? Qt might be the answer.Also in this lesson we will be using cross platform build tool named CMake.[…]
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Continuous Integration (CI) with Jenkins
Continuous Integration (CI) is a practice in software development when it’s encouraged to submit your code to the main repository very often – up to several times a day. Thus everyone the code is tested[…]
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Intro to debugging with WinDbg
Debugger is developers best friend. If you have to be efficient you have to know how to debug your application. No amount of logs, traces, console output can help you as much as live debugger[…]
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PIC microcontroller, part I
And now let’s go to the lowest level – microcontrollers. That’s what drives every electronic device around you. I found this one in my drawer: PIC16F690. You can buy ‘raw’ device or buy experimentation board,[…]
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Ant
If, after reading Java post, someone is curious if it’s possible to use makefile to compile Java applications – the answer would be yes. But there are better ways to do it. One of them[…]
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Git basics, part II
Now let’s look at one of typical real life scenarios. You came to the office in the morning and you want to get all latest changes: git pull this would sync your copy with other[…]
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Git basics
Linux, as usual, is more friendly to command line tool than Windows. Git is either already available for you or you can easily install it (e.g. sudo apt-get install git). On Windows one of the[…]
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makefiles, part II
Like I said with just one file it doesn’t make sense to create a makefile. Let’s create something more complex. Let’s create four files: main.cpp, class1.cpp, class1.h and common.h // common.h #pragma once enum class[…]
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makefiles, part I
got tired of remembering all compiler and linker switches? I got a good news for you – you can setup everything once and forget about it. One way is to user some studio and create[…]
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