The copy and swap idiom is becoming a popular question in C++ interviews to explore a candidate’s understanding of modern C++. I put together a small github repo / example with references to demonstrate the principle here.

In this modern age of dockerized apps there are still times when it’s desirable to bundle an app, its dependencies and resources as a self contained installable bundle on Linux.

Continue reading AppImage – an app bundle format for Linux (HOWTO)

There are a few forms a C/C++ library that you want to cross compile to Android might come in.

For instance:

• An Autotools project
• A CMake project

To get started let’s make a standalone Android toolchain (a toolchain being compilers, libraries and headers for cross compiling our source code to a specific target architecture and platform ABI) . Continue reading Cross compiling C/C++ libraries for Android (updated)