November 2008 Archives

Improve your C++: const-correctness

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Writing “const-correct” code will improve the quality and maintainability of your code. It is especially important and useful when writing Object-Oriented code, as objects are often passed around as constant references. Properly declaring non-mutating methods as const allows you to safely call any const method on such a reference. It is part of good type-safe practice and good code hygiene. So how do we do it?

New blog setup

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This blog is now powered by the wonderful MovableType, Open Source Edition, running on SliceHost.

Installation was painless, following the instructions on the main website. I used PostgreSQL, my favourite RDBMS, on the back-end. I got a basic site up very quickly, and chose one of the supplied templates to get started.