Articles by David Lafreniere (Articles: 15, Projects: 3)

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Desktop Programming
Win32	Win32 Thread Wrapper with Synchronized Start 22 Apr 2016 Updated: 23 Oct 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,425 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 663 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Win32 CreateThread() C++ wrapper class for synchronized thread startup and forced message queue creation.
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Arduino	Simple Socket Protocol for Embedded Systems 2 Jan 2022 Updated: 2 Jan 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,276 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 482 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A portable C language socket-based software transport protocol library for any hardware communication interface on any platform
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C	Type-Safe Multicast Callbacks in C 9 Jun 2017 Updated: 9 Jun 2017 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,520 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 277 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A type-safe multicast callback library used for anonymous function invocation implemented in C
	A Fixed Block Memory Allocator in C 23 Dec 2018 Updated: 24 Dec 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,293 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 813 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Unique allocator features improve performance and protect against heap fragmentation faults on any C or C++ project.
	Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks in C 6 Jan 2019 Updated: 29 Jan 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,787 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 537 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simplify passing data between threads with this portable C language callback library.
	State Machine Design in C 2 Feb 2019 Updated: 1 May 2021 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 51 Popularity: 8.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 221,894 Bookmarked: 83 Downloaded: 4,745 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A compact C finite state machine (FSM) implementation that's easy to use on embedded and PC-based systems
C++	Remote Procedure Calls using C++ Delegates 15 Mar 2020 Updated: 19 Mar 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,114 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 435 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Invoke remote functions over any communication medium using a C++ delegate library
	An Efficient C++ Fixed Block Memory Allocator 6 Mar 2016 Updated: 28 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 94,150 Bookmarked: 58 Downloaded: 2,115 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fixed block memory allocator that increases system performance and offers heap fragmentation fault protection
	Replace malloc/free with a Fast Fixed Block Memory Allocator 11 Mar 2016 Updated: 21 Jan 2024 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 90,125 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 1,553 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Replace malloc/free with xmalloc/xfree is faster than the global heap and prevents heap fragmentation faults.
	A Custom STL std::allocator Replacement Improves Performance 3 Apr 2016 Updated: 21 Jan 2024 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 85,536 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 1,246 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Protect against heap fragmentation faults and improve execution speed with a fixed block alternative to STL std::allocator
C++11	C++ std::thread Event Loop with Message Queue and Timer 5 Feb 2017 Updated: 13 Sep 2020 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 7.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 183,193 Bookmarked: 62 Downloaded: 4,353 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create a worker thread with an event loop, message queue and a timer using the C++11 thread support library
	C++ State Machine with Asynchronous Multicast Delegates 11 Jan 2017 Updated: 23 Oct 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,994 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 863 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A framework combining state machines with asynchronous multicast delegates
Objective C	Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks with Inter-Thread Messaging 15 Apr 2016 Updated: 25 Jan 2019 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 8.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 92,865 Bookmarked: 99 Downloaded: 1,880 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simplify passing data between threads using this multithreaded, portable C++ asynchronous callback framework
	C++ State Machine with Threads 18 Nov 2016 Updated: 26 Jan 2019 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 7.13 Licence: CPOL Views: 58,499 Bookmarked: 65 Downloaded: 1,758 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A framework combining state machines and multicast asynchronous callbacks
	State Machine Design in C++ 23 Mar 2016 Updated: 20 Feb 2019 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 139 Popularity: 10.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 426,727 Bookmarked: 293 Downloaded: 16,716 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A compact C++ finite state machine (FSM) implementation that's easy to use on embedded and PC-based systems

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C	Designers' Guide to Embedded Core Dumps [Project] 4 Feb 2024 Updated: 4 Feb 2024 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,020 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 65 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A core dump framework that stores crash information including call stacks on any embedded system.
C++	Asynchronous Multicast Delegates in C++ [Project] 13 Dec 2016 Updated: 19 Dec 2022 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 62 Popularity: 8.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 80,600 Bookmarked: 132 Downloaded: 2,263 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A C++ standards compliant delegate library capable of targeting any callable function synchronously or asynchronously
C++14	Asynchronous Multicast Delegates in Modern C++ [Project] 19 Aug 2020 Updated: 19 Dec 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,763 Bookmarked: 33 Downloaded: 524 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A C++17 standards compliant delegate library capable of targeting any callable function synchronously or asynchronously

David Lafreniere

United States

I've been a professional software engineer for over 20 years. When not writing code, I enjoy spending time with the family, camping and riding motorcycles around Southern California.