October 25, Pavia, Italy
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November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 13, 2016 01:00 PM | Tags: intermediate experimental
The future is already here.
Localizing Code With std::variant
by Cameron DaCamara
From the article:
As we all know, C++17 is on the horizon. With it’s release will comes a new member to the data container family,
std::variant...
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 13, 2016 12:40 PM | Tags: intermediate community
The insides are revealed:
Exploring std::string
by Shahar Mike
From the article:
Every C++ developer knows that
std::stringrepresents a sequence of characters in memory. It manages its own memory, and is very intuitive to use. Today we’ll explorestd::stringas defined by the C++ Standard, and also by looking at 4 major implementations.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 12, 2016 01:44 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency
How do you do it?
Type annotation in C++
by Stoyan Nikolov
From the article:
In systems like game engines and our HTML renderer Hummingbird, developers have to work with objects transformed in different coordinate systems. Using one generic type can lead to confusion on what object is required in a particular situation. Errors are often subtle and hard to track. I tried to mitigate this by using stringent static typing in our software. New types are created by annotating them with metadata...
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 12, 2016 01:43 PM | Tags: community basics
Here is a beginner's guide:
Starting With the Poco Libraries
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
Recently I started to use the web server functionality of Poco. Today I’ll describe my first experiences with the library.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 12, 2016 01:39 PM | Tags: community c++11
Have you registered for CppCon 2016 in September? Don’t delay – Late registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
3D Face Tracking and Reconstruction using Modern C++
by Patrik Huber
Summary of the talk:
In this talk, I will present my work in computer vision, namely landmark detection and 3D face tracking, and the two C++ libraries that were developed in the process. The first part of the talk will give an introduction to detecting facial landmark points and work through a hello-world code example that presents and uses the superviseddescent library, a cross-platform library for cascaded regression that can be used to solve problems like landmark detection or pose estimation. The second part of the talk will present an approach that uses the found landmarks from the first part to use a 3D face model to track a person's face. With the library presented in the process, we hope to make 3D models easier to use and more widespread in the community. Both libraries are designed to be lightweight and simple to use, and try to follow modern C++11/14 programming paradigms. The talk concludes with my views on code sustainability in academia and a wish list of standard library features for computer vision.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 9, 2016 12:17 PM | Tags: intermediate c++11
Which one to use?
Auto Type Deduction in Range-Based For Loops
by Petr Zemek
From the article:
Have you ever wondered which of the following variants you should use in range-based for loops and when?
auto,const auto,auto&,const auto&,auto&&,const auto&&, ordecltype(auto)? This post tries to present rules of thumb that you can use in day-to-day coding. As you will see, only four of these variants are generally useful.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 9, 2016 12:06 PM | Tags: c++11 basics
Let's review the basics!
Great Expectations
by Glennan Carnie
From the article:
Previously, we’ve looked at the basic concepts of function parameter passing, and we’ve looked at the mechanics of how parameters are passed at the Application Binary Interface (ABI) level.
Far too often we focus on the mechanisms and efficiency of parameter passing, with the goal: if it’s efficient then it’s good; that’s all there is to it. In this article I want to move past simple mechanics and start to explore function parameter design intent – that is, what can I expect (to change) about the objects I use as function arguments; and what can I expect to be able to do with an object as a function implementer.
To that end, we’ll take a look at parameter passing from the perspective of the mutability (ability to be modified) of the parameters from both a caller’s and a function’s (callee’s) point of view...
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 9, 2016 11:46 AM | Tags: experimental efficiency
Have you registered for CppCon 2016 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
string_view
by Marshall Clow
Summary of the talk:
The library fundamentals TS contains a new class "string_view", which appears to be unlike anything else in the standard library. In this talk, we will explore the uses of string_view, when it is appropriate to use it, and when it is not. Along the way, I will discuss other possible "_view" classes, with an eye to the upcoming "ranges" proposal before the standards committee.
By Jon Kalb | Sep 9, 2016 10:46 AM | Tags: community
Do you have something to say to C++ programers? Can you say it in five minutes?
CppCon 2016 Call for Lightning Talks
by Michael Caisse
From the call:
Lightning talks are fast paced, short presentations often sprinkled with humor and intrigue. The popular 5-minute talks present topics that are interesting to C++ programmers and are open to speakers at all experience levels.
By robwirving | Sep 9, 2016 10:11 AM | Tags: None
Episode 69 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Miodrag Milanovic to discuss his work on the MAME emulation project, its history and moving the MAME codebase from C to C++.
CppCast Episode 69: MAME Emulation Project with Miodrag Milanovic
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Born in 1978, living in Novi Sad, Serbia. Proud husband and father of two. Started professional programming career in year 2000 working in Java, C# and of course C and C++ for various international customers. From 2012 coordinator of MAME emulation project, pushing hard in modernization of two decade old code.