Mon 15 April 2024

A very short blog post to share some minimal code snippets on how to quickly and easily setup Gitlab CI pipelines to run static code analysis tools on C++ code and Jenkins pipelines (or any Groovy code). Linting C++ code with clang-tidy clang-tidy is a clang-based C++ linter tool that …

Wed 03 May 2023

Pylint is a great static code analyser for Python code. I have been using it for several years, in various projects, and it's simple to use yet very powerful. I even contributed to Pylint by submitting a new rule a few years ago : implicit-str-concat. For an introduction to Pylint, you …

Fri 07 November 2014

This post aims to introduce a very useful tool to debug low-level issues in Python, how to enhance it and finally how to solve two annoying common problems. 1. Debugging Python with gdb All the basics are there : https://wiki.python.org/moin/DebuggingWithGdb Tl;dr : gdb -p $(pgrep -f …

Thu 09 October 2014

I truly think Etherpad is an amazing piece of software. Not so much for its code base quality than for its extraordinary range of usages. Now, while I'm still unsure if todo-lists are useful or a complete waste of energy, I'm convinced that keeping a developer logbook / diary / journal has …