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CppCast Episode 123: Grace Hopper Conference with Gina Stephens

By robwirving | Oct 20, 2017 07:43 AM | Tags: None

Episode 123 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Gina Stephens to talk about the C++ Foundations presence at the Grace Hopper Conference, the St Louis C++ Meetup and a proposal for a new access specifier.

CppCast Episode 123: Grace Hopper Conference with Gina Stephens

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Gina Stephens is a software engineer with over 20 years' experience, 13 of those years leading development teams. Most of her experience has been with C++, in addition to Java, .NET and various scripting language. The breadth of her development experience includes DOD, FDA, DOI, Hospitality, and Finance.

Gina has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MS&T in Rolla, MO and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Missouri – STL. She also founded and runs the STL C++ User Group.

Gina is also a Desert Storm Air Force veteran during which she worked on the B-52 bombers that were carpet-bombing Iraq. She is happily married with 2 sons, both of whom are serving in the US Navy.

C++ Day 2017 event in Italy (Italian only)

By Marco Arena | Oct 19, 2017 06:02 AM | Tags: community

A full day of C++ in the Italian language:

C++ Day 2017

December 2, 2017

Modena.

The site and the event are entirely in Italian. Here is a translation of the main information:

In a nutshell

The C++ Day 2017 is a full-day event entirely dedicated to the C++ language, hosted in Modena (Italy), the heart of the so-called Motor Valley: a land displaying the best of the motor and racing world. Companies like Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Pagani, Ducati reside here.

The event consists in some technical sessions and networking.

Italian C++ professionals will speak (in Italian) on different C++ topics, including: Artificial Intelligence, UI, Interoperability and STL.

 

Who should attend the C++ Day 2017?

This event is made by C++ professionals for C++ professionals, students and enthusiasts. Whoever is interested in the C++ language and is keen on meeting the Italian C++ ecosystem is welcome!

 

What can I find in the C++ Day 2017?

The agenda consists of 5x60' tech talks and 2.5 hours allocated for networking. The event is also an opportunity to meet people working in the Motor Valley.

About the technical sessions, speakers will talk about:

  • (Slightly) Smarter Smart Pointers (Carlo Pescio)
  • C++ & UI: a different approach (Daniele Pallastrelli)
  • Immediate Mode Graphical User Interfaces in C++ (Stefano Cristiano)
  • C/C++ interoperability with other languages (Alberto Bignotti)
  • Artificial Intelligence, today (Sebastiano Galazzo)

Coffee breaks are included, lunch is not: people are encouraged to enjoy the lovely center of the city.

You can refer to the detailed program for more information.
 

When and Where will the C++ Day 2017 take place?

The event will be held on December 2, 2017 at Centro Culturale Alberione, in Modena (Italy). The location is in the center of the city, 10-minute walk from the main train station.

Check-in opens at 8.30 AM, the main event begins at 9.30 AM and will last for a full day.
 

Who supports this event?

Recognition Robotics and Sigeo are our sponsors.

O'Reilly supports the C++ Day with free books.

We are still open to sponsorships. Get in touch if you want to support/sponsor the event!

 

Do I need to register?

The C++ Day 2017 is free, but you must register to facilitate the organization of the event.

You can register here.

Keynotes at Meeting C++ 2017

By Meeting C++ | Oct 18, 2017 01:41 AM | Tags: meetingcpp intermediate conference community basics advanced

With the conference just a few weeks away, an update on the 3 awesome keynotes of this years Meeting C++:

Keynotes at Meeting C++ 2017

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Are you excited for Meeting C++ 2017?!? I quickly wanted to give an update on the 3 keynotes at the conference this year! Each day will feature one keynote, where the first two are in the morning, while the Closing Keynote is kind of the last thing to happen before the closing message. Also, all 3 keynote speakers have now (finally) their speaker profile.

Overload 141 is now available -- ACCU

By Felix Petriconi | Oct 17, 2017 11:54 PM | Tags: None

ACCU’s Overload journal of October 2017 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.

Overload 141

From the index:

'Speedy Gonzales' Serializing (Re)Actors via Allocators

Polymorphism in C++ - A Type Compatibility View

Open Source - And Still Deceiving Programmers

C++11 (and Beyond) Exception Support

ACCU 2018 Call for sessions -- ACCU

By Felix Petriconi | Oct 16, 2017 01:07 AM | Tags: community

The ACCU 2018 is now putting together its program, and they want you to speak on C++. The ACCU has a strong C++ track, though it is not a C++-only conference. If you have something to share, check out their

Call for Sessions

by the ACCU

From the article:

ACCU the conference is put on by ACCU the organisation, but is open to anyone who wishes to attend, not just members of the organisation. Obviously ACCU the organisation hopes that anyone not a member that attends ACCU the conference joins ACCU the organisation – and there is a stand at the conference for people to do exactly that.

So for content, ACCU the conference is looking for any material that is interesting to people who create software. Historically, ACCU has a lot of C++ and C content, and is proud of that: ACCU is the foremost annual conference for people interested in C++ and C, at least in and around the UK. But it is not just a C++ and C conference, ACCU is about programming in whatever language people are using, with whatever tools and processes people are using: D, Chapel, Java, Kotlin, C#, F#, Groovy, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, Lisp, to name just a few programming languages about which there have been sessions at ACCU conferences.

See the 2017 schedule for examples.

The Call for Sessions lasts for about 5 weeks and will close on Friday 2017-11-17 T23:59+00:00.

C++17--Egor Bredikhin

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 13, 2017 12:50 PM | Tags: community c++17

A reminder of what C++17 bring:

C++17

by Egor Bredikhin

From the article:

C++ language is constantly evolving, and for us, as for developers of a static analyzer, it is important to track all its changes, in order to support all new features of the language. In this review article, I would like to share with the reader the most interesting innovations introduced in C++17, and demonstrate them with examples.

CppCast Episode 122: Abseil with Titus Winters

By robwirving | Oct 13, 2017 07:13 AM | Tags: None

Episode 122 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google to talk about the Open Sourcing of Google's Abseil library.

CppCast Episode 122: Abseil with Titus Winters

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Titus Winters has spent the past 6 years working on Google's core C++ libraries. He's particularly interested in issues of large scale software engineer and codebase maintenance: how do we keep a codebase of over 100M lines of code consistent and flexible for the next decade? Along the way he has helped Google teams pioneer techniques to perform automated code transformations on a massive scale, and helps maintain the Google C++ Style Guide.

Most interesting innovations in C++17

By Andrey Karpov | Oct 12, 2017 11:35 AM | Tags: c++17

C++ language is constantly evolving, and for us, as for developers of a static analyzer, it is important to track all its changes, in order to support all new features of the language.

Most interesting innovations in C++17

by Egor Bredikhin

From the article:

Fold expressions, template<auto>, constexpr if, constexpr lambdas, *this capture in lambda expressions, inline variables, structured bindings, __has_include, std: byte type and so on.