On Software on saoe: The Nifty Oddity

On Software: API Design

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:33:23 +0200

I recently had the inspiration of writing a new post about my current thoughts on how to design/make a good Application Programming Interface (API), for functions/methods, classes, programs/scripts, and other things that offer such an interface.

On Software: Open Source Licenses

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:42:46 +0200

I mostly prefer permissive open source licenses that allow a lot but don’t restrict (or demand) much.
But this may also change, depending on specific projects and/or use cases…

On Software: Documentation

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:38:10 +0100

Some background: I am indeed interested in writing documentation, for myself and for others.

The initial trigger is usually to note it down for my future self, and/or for helping me to understand a topic better; if it’s also useful for others: great.

On Software: Logging

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Quite a while ago, I was thinking about settling on a steady logging convention, after always having slightly varying versions in my different projects.

Using CMake with External Projects

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:40:23 +0200

The reason for this post is that I spent a considerable amount of time¹ the last two days to convince CMake’s External Project feature to do what I wanted. And without the help of the usual suspects (Stackoverflow, old mails, blog articles, code snippets, etc.), I might still not be done. So I thought I could pay back the general public by posting some notes on this topic 😉

On Software: Version Numbers

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:52:50 +0000

Just a little train of thoughts on the topic of numbering versions of software products (and by that, I mean client-based, locally installed programs, not webservices which are always considered to be in a state of flux and where maybe timestamps are a better format).

The case of the mysterious crash

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:30:09 +0000

In case you get mysterious crashes, inexplicable messages of access violations and other strange errors on seemingly innocent code:

On Software: Check for errors and do not fail (too) silently

Sat, 07 Feb 2015 11:54:32 +0000

While I was running the old-but-still-officially-current version 1.1.0 of RandFill recently (to analyze a change between that version and the 1.2.x branch), I stumbled upon a strange behaviour:

On Software: Some Golden Rules

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:00:21 +0000

Here are some rules of thumb for program authors.

On Software: Configuration

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:00:48 +0000

These are a few thoughts (from the point of view as an user and also as a developer) on handling configuration data for [application] software.

On Software: Open Formats & Open Protocols

Thu, 30 May 2013 08:00:31 +0000

Let’s kick off the text with the sad-but-true bits of wisdom found here:

On Software: Introduction

Mon, 27 May 2013 08:00:55 +0000

In this series of posts I plan to write down some of my views regarding all things ‘software’, both as an user as well as a developer/programmer.