Wot I'm reeding

I'm reading Scott Meyers's Effective C++ (Third Edition).

This was published in 2005, but of course the book has been out for some time in earlier editions. This is the second time of reading it, and I can say that it is still fascinating, and readable in equal measure.

This is not a review however.

Reading this book has inspired me to share more of these insights with my colleagues (who work with me in a large middleware development organisation). The main problem is remembering them all -- there are subtleties and details it is hard to recall at the appropriate time.

So what I could do is to compile my own list of aphorisms that would be memorable, witty, and encapsulate a gem from the book, like:

• The only good code is eliminated code.
• Private data is too hot to handle.
• Exception safety is like pregnancy: you can't be only partially exception safe.

and so on. Of course, these are only starters and I might want to expand on these. Any comments out there?

First pass the post, please

Hello. This is my personal blog.

I'm not a prolific blogger [although I have a company one] but I find that there is little time (or incentive) to write one most days. Since this is a personal blog, which I can access from anywhere (yay, Google) I think I might post a bit more.

My personal favourite topics are recreational mathematics, software engineering, singing (barbershop and west gallery), and MG Midgets MkIII. I'm a bit of a pedant and have a tendancy to be a 'Grumpy Old Man'. This ought possibly to go into my profile.

I don't know how to do that yet.

Cheers.