Category Archives: Programming

Align parameters of a C function declaration, with lineup-parameters

Posted on July 25, 2013 by swilmet

Renaming a GObject class can involve a lot of manual work. Once the type is renamed, the parameters of the function declarations are no longer aligned. In the following example, GtkSourceSearch has been renamed as GtkSourceSearchContext: guint _gtk_source_search_replace_all (GtkSourceSearchContext *search, … Continue reading →

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Developing graphical IDEs the UNIX way

Posted on July 3, 2013 by swilmet

Programming on a UNIX environment generally involves the use of command line tools: vim/emacs, git, grep, sed, screen/tmux, and so on. What is really nice about these tools is that they do only one thing, but do it well. Now, … Continue reading →

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About code quality and maintainability

Posted on August 1, 2012 by swilmet

It can be difficult to write clean code, that is easy to understand, split in nice and well-defined functions that do one thing but do it well, with good variables names, and so on. For the maintainability, it is really … Continue reading →

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