Coding Relic

The Principle of the Conservation of Software Quality postulates that for every best practice there is an equal and opposite worst practic...

Programming languages are a voyeuristic pursuit for me, as my daily work consists entirely of C and assembly. Nonetheless it is quite clear ...

Has this ever happened to you? You allocate some sort of resource which needs to be released before returning from the function. You can put...

Ahh, printf. What would we do without printf, sprintf, etc? It makes it easy to format integers, floats, strings, MAC addresses ... Oh wait,...

The half-life of engineering knowledge is depressingly short. The old school way to stay current is via books covering technical topics, suc...

Today, Gentle Reader, we will examine the Bionic library, a slim libc developed by Google for use in the Android mobile software platform...

Let's just get this out in the open: I love enum. Enum is a friend of mine. Enum and I go way, way back. I also detest enum's evi...

This time, Gentle Reader, we'll delve into one of the sticky areas of the C language: pointer aliases. Let's dive directly into code...

Stackoverflow.com is a site by programmers and for programmers, whose purpose is answering questions on topics relating to software devel...

Rather by definition, embedded software involves building a gizmo of some sort. Manufacturing the hardware portion of the gizmo turns out to...

There are only 16 characters to work with, but programmers just love coming up with creative spellings using hex numbers. I suspect that l...