Creating DKit
Since I've been looking for a job, I haven't been doing a lot of posting because not a lot has been happening - except all the stuff associated with getting a new job. But one of the things I wanted to do this time around was to create a GitHub project that could showcase a little bit of my coding skills as well as being generally useful for folks - me included, and just get something out there. So I created DKit.
The idea behind DKit is simple - it's a very specialized C++ library with classes and templates, that contains atomic and lockless data structures for very efficient C++ coding. I've used classes like these in projects at previous employers, but I started fresh, and expanded the classes significantly so that the atomic integers paralleled those in the stdint.h header - signed and unsigned, 8, 16, 32, and 64 bit sizes. These will make counters trivial as they are all atomic and so you'll get great counts even if you don't go through the overhead of locking.
I also added in two groups of containers, so far: single-producer/single-consumer, and multiple-producer/single-consumer. To the first, I put in a simple circular FIFO, and to the latter I put in a linked FIFO and a circular FIFO. These were ideas I had at a previous job, but I wanted to make them fresh so as not to get into any IP issues.
All told, it's a nice start. I want to keep it free of the issues that I might have had in the past, and just keep it OPen Source. I picked the MIT license as it seems to be the most liberal while protecting the original copyright and the removal of any liability. I think it's the start of something really nice.