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Semiconductor Equipment Software: The C++ Stack Behind Control, Vision, and the Fab Host

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August 19, 2026
The person who understood the code is gone An all too familiar scene: Someone new takes over a legacy sensor-testing system, but the handover from the previous engineer was already over. Roger Swann’s experience as a director for an electronics and manufacturing company made such an impression we published a case study about it earlier this month. But we’re not stopping there.
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How to Navigate a Large or Legacy C++ Codebase in Visual Studio

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June 26, 2026
You cloned the repo on your first morning in your new team’s project. Twenty minutes later you’re looking at a solution with four hundred projects, a build that throws errors on a clean checkout, and a ticket that says a number is wrong on one screen. You don’t know where that screen is—in fact, you don’t know where anything lives. And that’s absolutely normal. But…
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Finding your way through a large Unreal Engine codebase: a practical guide

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May 11, 2026
The moment the project opens Welcome gamer! You’re excited to start coding games so you set up your Unreal Engine and  finally got the source linked to your project… Once it opens you’re greeted with a sample project. It’s huge. And why are there red error squiggles under everything? You open Solution Explorer and there are 800 folders. You explore. Hit F12 on BeginPlay…
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AI in Your IDE: What's Real, What's Hype, and Where C++ Fits In

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March 25, 2026
It’s been roughly three years since AI tools and large language models (LLMs) hit the mainstream in a real, unavoidable way. In that time, people have put them to work writing emails, summarizing legal documents, generating marketing copy, composing music, tutoring students, answering medical questions, planning vacations — and yes, generating entire recipes for whatever’s left in…
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