As we navigate another year of consistent zero-day breaches, legislative pivots, the explosion of AI tooling and threat actors growing bolder and more desperate, it’s safe to say that getting comfortable with change is a requirement for thriving in the technology industry. We occupy a notoriously unpredictable space, but that’s half the fun. Compared to […]
In C++ Builder 12, and modern C++ the std::variant is one of the powerful features that comes with C++17. The std::variant is a discriminated union that we can work with multiple data types. It represents a type-safe union and holds one of its types in definition. What is the class template std::variant in C++ 17? […]
#include Diagnostics in Visual Studio Mryam Girmay January 8th, 20241 3 We’re excited to announce that the #include Diagnostics feature is now available in Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 2. This new feature allows you to better understand the behavior of #include directives by providing detailed information on each directive’s references and build time. Download Visual […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is looking to become a more significant player in the networking space through its planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper, a deal that it hopes will make it a more formidable rival to longtime market leader Cisco Systems. The deal, announced Tuesday after the markets closed, is a big deal in the […]
The C++ 17 standard bring us a lot of useful methods, templates and algorithms. One of the great algorithms is std::sample defined in the header that samples at most n elements uniformly from a given range. In this post, we explain the std::sample algorithm and how we can use it with an mt19937 random generator. What is […]
MSVC ARM64 optimizations in Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Jiong Wang (ARM Ltd) Hongyon Suauthai (ARM) January 9th, 20240 1 Visual Studio 2022 17.8 has been released recently (download it here). While there is already a blog “Visual Studio 17.8 now available!” covering new features and improvements, we would like to share more information with you […]
As we close out 2023, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2023. Microsoft has been doing a lot to extend the coding ‘copilot’ concept into new areas. And at its Build 2023 conference, Microsoft leadership unveiled new […]
Classes and Objects are part of object-oriented methods and typically provide features such as properties and methods. One of the great features of an object orientated language like C++ is a copy assignment operator that is used with operator= to create a new object from an existing one. In this post, we explain what a […]
More organizations than ever will need to invest in IT training as advances in artificial intelligence (AI) transform roles and responsibilities in the coming year. A survey of 2,740 IT decision-makers conducted by Skillsoft, a provider of an online training platform, finds two-thirds (66%) were already dealing with skills gaps in 2023. As AI becomes […]
The C++17 standard came with a lot of great features and std::optional was one of the main features of today’s modern C++. std::optional is a class template that is defined in the header and represents either a T value or no value. In this post, we explain, what is optional in modern C++ and how we can […]
