Blog Archive

An introduction to generating, parsing, and manipulating JSON with the RapidJSON C++ library, with full sample code for writers, documents, and DOM manipulation.

January 16, 2015 (Updated on January 29, 2015)

Wiring gcov/lcov code coverage into the CMake-generated build for MTConnect Cppagent, including a custom "make cov" target that runs tests and generates an HTML coverage report.

Tracing through the CMake-generated Makefiles for MTConnect Cppagent to find where to add the --coverage flag so gcov/lcov can produce test coverage data.

A step-by-step walkthrough of using gcov and lcov to generate HTML code coverage reports for a simple C++ program.

How to build MTConnect Cppagent from source, run it against the adapter simulator, query it with curl, and run its test suite.

October 11, 2014 (Updated on February 26, 2015)

Deploying a Flask app on Apache with mod_wsgi: installing packages, setting up a virtualenv, writing the .wsgi file, configuring Apache, and locking down file permissions with a dedicated group.

Launching an AWS EC2 instance and connecting to it via SSH as the first step toward deploying a Flask app with mod_wsgi.

A day-by-day recap of the 5-day workshop at NIT Durgapur celebrating 10 years of DGPLUG, covering Fedora, Python, Vim, Flask, unit testing, documentation, and Git.