CppCast Episode 132: Boost Application Development with Antony Polukhin

By robwirving | Jan 5, 2018 10:43 AM | Tags: None

Episode 132 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Antony Palukhin to talk about some of the Boost libraries he's contributed to including Any, Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, Stacktrace, TypeTraits and Variant; as well as his Boost Application Development book.

CppCast Episode 132: Boost Application Development with Antony Polukhin

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Antony Polukhin was born in Russia. Since university days he started contributing to Boost and became a maintainer of the Boost.LexicalCast library. Today, he works for Yandex, helps Russian speaking people with C++ standardization proposals, consults Russian companies in C++, continues to contribute to the open source and to the C++ language in general. You may find his code in Boost libraries such as Any, Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, Stacktrace, TypeTraits, Variant, and others.

Lightning Talks Meeting C++ 2017 - Part II

By Meeting C++ | Jan 5, 2018 03:52 AM | Tags: meetingcpp

The second part of the lightning talks from Meeting C++ 2017:

Statistical scientific programming OO patterns

by Olivia Quinet

The case for vendorded Builds

by Arvid Gerstmann

Is C++ really a highperformance language?

by Gábor Horváth

The need for a package manager interface

by Mathieu Ropert

The stand up

by Phil Nash

Type punning done right

by Andreas Weis

Lightning Talks Meeting C++ 2017 - Part I

By Meeting C++ | Jan 4, 2018 04:06 AM | Tags: video qt meetingcpp c++17

The first part of the regular lightning talks from Meeting C++ 2017 was released yesterday:

The most important API design principle

by Marc Mutz

Structured Bindings demystified

by Marc Mutz

Fastbuild

by Arvid Gerstmann

std::launder

by Réka Kovács

Is this available?

by Miro Knejp

std::optional and the m word

by Simon Brand

C++ Tips of the Week

By shreck | Jan 2, 2018 11:52 AM | Tags: None

Google's internal C++ tips are going public:

Abseil Publishing Google's C++ "Tips of the Week"

By Tom Manshreck, Abseil and C++ Tech Writer

From the article:

Background: About five years ago, within Google we started publishing a series of C++ tips, about once a week, that became known as the “C++ Tips of the Week” (TotW). They became wildly successful, and we are still publishing them to this day (indicating that a language as rich as C++ will not deplete us of topics anytime soon).

Not only do we discuss the finer points of the language, but in true “tip” fashion, offer our advice or design preferences. The collective set of C++ TotW has become a canon within Google itself, cited thousands of times per week in code reviews and internal mailing list discussions. Often they are cited by number, and some have become known simply as “totw/110” or “totw/77”.

We’ve decided to expose most of these tips to the Abseil development community, and the C++ community at large.

C++ Weekly Episode 96: Transparent Lambda Comparators—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | Jan 1, 2018 03:39 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency c++17 advanced

Episode 96 of C++ Weekly.

Transparent Lambda Comparators

by Jason Turner

About the show:

In this episode Jason explores the use of lambdas as comparators for the associative containers. Just how far can we take the use of lambdas? Variadic templates, forwarding references, multiple inheritance, variadic "using" declarations, local classes, transparent comparators and direct base class initialization are all utilized in this video.