Willful Ignorance (C++ Templates)

I had a moment last week where I was a little down on my C++, you see I'm a very old programmer, by programmer standards, and my experience with C++ stems from a time before templates, this may amaze and delight in equal measure as template use is so ubiquitous today, however I've been using find & replace style boiler-plate code in the form of both macros and code-gen for literally decades.

Templates however have not been my go to option, because of that weight of experience.  I actually find picking apart heavy template code quite hard going at times (I think a lot of us do).

But I was down as a valued colleague (Hi D if you read this, you know it's you) described this approach of mine as "willful ignorance".  And he was right, I have to put my hands up and admit he's right.

As such I took a look over my old state machine repo on github and realised there was a bunch of boiler plate stuff I was doing with both macros, or not doing at all, which could easily be made to leverage templates.

Watch this space...

New Project Series for you Guys

I've been trying to record you a new series, my rants on life, the universe and everything, with the phone in the car on the drive in, I've tried to record video, tried audio, tried to just dictate and then write out the rants... None of it has been working for me, I think I need to get a better mic set up to record the audio I want.

Even post processing the captured audio and video files has been to no effect.

Topics I covered this week were Kivy in Python, the on going Immigration Crisis coming out of Syria and the wanker who cut me up in a fully livery clad van, the douché.

So, very diverse.

But until I can get around to solving the technical hiccups you'll just have to know and accept that I'm trying... in both senses of the term, yes I'm trying...