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Coding Dojo - Detect CI Context
- 08 March 2025
Coding Dojos are a great way to practice and enhance your skills in Test-Driven Development (TDD), software craftsmanship, and incremental software design. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to implement the Detect CI Context coding example using Python.
You’ll learn how to:
Making Unit Tests Visible in Visual Studio Code with CTest and GoogleTest
- 05 February 2025
Many C/C++ projects rely on CMake, GoogleTest (GTest), and GoogleMock (GMock) for unit testing. Sometimes developers want to see and run/debug these tests directly in their IDE.
In this blog post, I will show how to make the unit tests visible in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) using CTest and GoogleTest. I will start by explaining the standard way to build and run the tests with CMake. Then we will see how CTest can help us discover the tests and how to display them in the VS Code interface.
Allocate Code and Data to Specific Memory Sections
- 07 January 2025
There was a question in our support channel about the memory sections from an external library.
The colleague was trying to understand how the different sections were defined for the library and how they were placed in memory.
When checking the linker configuration file (*.lsl) the observation was that the memory sections for:
all the objects for our code, the section pattern was .<type>.<filename>.<symbol>. For example, select .text.component.main or select .data.component.my_var.
Homelab - setup main machine
- 17 November 2024
When starting my homelab journey, I needed a main machine to manage all devices and services in my network. Many homelab enthusiasts typically choose Linux for this purpose. However, my primary computer runs Windows 11, so I decided to use WSL2 with an Ubuntu distribution to fulfill this role.
I followed the instructions provided in the official documentation to install WSL2 and had Ubuntu up and running quickly.
Optimizing Tool Installation in SPL Build Environments
- 26 October 2024
I assume that the reader is familiar with the concept of software product lines (SPLs) and build environments. If not, as this is a blog post about optimizing tool installation in SPL build environments, I recommend you read up on these topics first.
In software product line (SPL) engineering, efficiently managing tool dependencies is essential for optimizing build environments and enhancing developer productivity. This blog post explores the thought process in addressing the challenge of optimizing tool installations in an SPL. We’ll walk through the problem statement, initial ideas, the evolution of those ideas, and the final approach.
Efficiently Embedding Git Information in C Projects
- 01 October 2024
In software development, embedding Git metadata (like commit IDs, branches, and tags) into your binaries is useful for debugging and traceability. However, how you integrate this information can significantly impact your build times and workflow efficiency. This post explores the challenges of embedding Git information in C projects using CMake and proposes an optimized solution.
In the first project, Git information is passed directly as compiler command-line arguments using add_compile_options in CMake: