Useful links

C++

General reading

• Herb Sutter’s Guru of the Week articles
• Exceptional C++ by Herb Sutter
• [More] Effective C++ by Scott Meyers
• C++ Coding Standards by Andrei Alexandrescu

Guides, discussions and explorations of specific topics

• Working around problems with initialisation ordering of global statics and static class members
• Herb Sutter’s exploration of encapsulation
• When should functions be member functions? Discussion on stackoverflow
• Dave Abrahams & Douglas Gregor on generic programming techniques
• StackOverflow discusses destruction of temporary when lvalue reference bound to reference returned via function
• Binding lvalue reference to reference to temporary returned from function doesn’t extend its lifetime: see these discussions on StackOverflow

Libraries

• Google Test has less boilerplate and more functionality (e.g. type-parameterised testing) than other C++ test frameworks. Very powerful in combination with Google Mock
• Boost (of course! :-D)

C++11-specific

• Dave Abrahams series RValue References: Moving Forward

Web development

• Checklist of items when building a website

Database development

• High performance insertions in SQL server – primarily for high volume, but applicable to non-high volume deployments and RDBMSs in general.

Software/other

• Why using .* in regular expressions is almost never what you actually want
• Anonymous Pro: a font designed specifically for coding.
• pstack: print a stack trace of a running process
• notify-send: Display graphical notifications from scripts; useful to append to long commands for running on completion.