By Connnniie | Oct 8, 2016 10:12 AM | Tags: None
Redis (the world's most popular in-memory database) is hosting an online and physical hackathon.
Redis Hackathon
You might be interested in a hackathon that directly relates to C/C++. Sign up as soon as possible because they're starting soon!
There are cash prizes of $5,000, $2,000, $1,000 and on-site (San Francisco and Tel Aviv) prizes of $1000.
By robwirving | Oct 7, 2016 08:15 AM | Tags: None
Episode 73 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson from Creative Assembly to discuss the work of the SG 14 game dev/low latency group including his ring buffer proposal and more.
CppCast Episode 73: SG14 Update with Guy Davidson
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien:Isolation and the upcoming Halo Wars sequel, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers.
By Meeting C++ | Oct 6, 2016 06:50 AM | Tags: raii performance intermediate efficiency c++11 boost
Memories inspired by Herb Sutters Keynote at CppCon:
Subtle bugs through leaking
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Herb Sutters keynote on writing leak free code in C++ reminded me of seeing the opposite as a freelancer: code that has very obvious leaks. And it made me also think about what 'bugs' some of them caused.
By Jason Turner | Oct 4, 2016 12:16 PM | Tags: intermediate
Episode 31 of C++ Weekly.
IncludeOS
by Jason Turner
About the show:
Jason explores what IncludeOS is and how you might use it for OS experimentation.
By Boris Kolpackov | Oct 4, 2016 08:03 AM | Tags: package build
build2 is an open source, cross-platform toolchain for building and packaging C++ code. It includes a build system, package manager, and repository web interface. There is also cppget.org, a public repository of open source C++ packages.
build2 0.4.0Release Notes
From the announcement:
This release includes a number of major new features in the build system (support for Windows/MSVC, C compilation, pkg-config integration, library versioning and export model, as well as the uninstall operation) and packag manager (support for repository authentication and system packages).
This version has been tested on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and FreeBSD with GCC, Clang (both vanilla and Apple's), MinGW GCC, MSVC, and Intel icc.
By Ábel Sinkovics | Oct 4, 2016 05:37 AM | Tags: advanced
Metashell provides a compile-time debugger for debugging template instantiations and macro usage.
Metashell 3.0.0 is available
From the website:
Some of the major new features in 3.0.0:
- Profiling template instantiations
- Debugging template instantiations in expressions involving SFINAE
- Displaying preprocessed expressions
Commands for exploring the available headers (similar to the which and ls commands).
The full list of changes can be found here.An online demo can be found at http://metashell.org/about/demo/
Installers can be downloaded from http://metashell.org/getting_metashell/installers#version-300
By Marco Arena | Sep 30, 2016 10:27 AM | Tags: intermediate
In this installment I'll explain what I consider the essence of Competitive Programming:
C++ in Competitive Programming: compromises
by Marco Arena
From the article:
Crafting software is about balancing competing trade-offs. It’s impossible to optimize every factor of a system, as speed, usability, accuracy, etc at the same time. Moreover, solutions of today impact decisions and solutions of tomorrow. On the other hand, in Competitive Programming, the best solution is one that just makes each test-case pass...
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 30, 2016 08:59 AM | Tags: intermediate experimental boost
And why not simply use a pointer?
The Case for Optional References
by Tristan Brindle
From the article:
I have a confession to make. Whenever I’ve come across code that looks like this:
struct example { example() = default; example(std::string& s) : str_{s} {} private: boost::optional<std::string&> str_{}; };there is a little voice inside my head that whispers “why didn’t you just use a pointer?”. Like so, for instance:
struct example { example() = default; example(std::string& s) : str_{&s} {} private: std::string* str_ = nullptr; };This is equivalent to the first example, except that it’s slightly less typing, it doesn’t have any dependencies, and feels in some sense “cleaner”. I personally have always preferred it.
Except, I was wrong. After attending Bjarne Stroustrup’s keynote and this excellent talk at Cppcon this morning, I’m persuaded that optional references are a good thing. In this post I hope to be able to convince you of the same...
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 30, 2016 08:57 AM | Tags: intermediate c++11
Do you know the difference?
Universal vs Forwarding References in C++
by Petr Zemek
From the article:
When talking about
T&&in C++, you may have heard about universal references and forwarding references. This may get you wonder. Why there are two names for an apparently same concept? Is there any difference between them? Which one should I use? Lets find out...
By robwirving | Sep 30, 2016 08:03 AM | Tags: None
Episode 72 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Klemens Morgenstern to discuss his experimental changes in boost::dll and his proposed boost::process library.
CppCast Episode 72: Boost::Process with Klemens Morgenstern
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Born in 1988 in Dresden, I have a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Master's Degree in Microsystems & Microelectronics. Fell in Love with C++ while working with embedded systems. Klemens was working full time as a C++-Developer from 2013 until early 2016, and is now starting his own consulting company, trying to bring C++ to C-Programmers.