October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 22, 2016 12:12 PM | Tags: None
Here is an interesting read:
Jon Kalb speaks about CppCon, C++17 standard and C++ community
by Anastasia Kazakova
From the article:
Here comes another interview in our blog. This time we speak with Jon Kalb, CppCon Chair and C++ instructor.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 22, 2016 12:08 PM | Tags: community c++11
Have you registered for CppCon 2016 in September? Don’t delay – Early Bird 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:
Doxygen to DoxyPress: A Journey from C++98 to C++11
by Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim
Summary of the talk:
This presentation will discuss the benefits of using a documentation generator for creating internal code documentation or end user documentation. DoxyPress can be used to document your source code, generate API documentation, show class hierarchies, collaboration diagrams, and much more. DoxyPress supports several output formats including html, chm, latex, and man pages.
As part of our talk we will cover the process of redesigning source code originally designed for C++98 and how to migrate it to C++11. We will talk about the advantages and drawbacks of moving to C++11 and show how the code changed in DoxyPress.
We will show a small demonstration of DoxyPressApp, which is a a GUI program used to set up your project file which is then used by DoxyPress to generate documentation.
DoxyPress is a fork of the Doxygen documentation tool. A very basic understanding of C++ will be helpful. No prior knowledge of DoxyPress or Doxygen is required.
By Meeting C++ | Jun 22, 2016 02:03 AM | Tags: intermediate conference advanced
Most talks of this years Meeting C++ conference are now online:
Talks at Meeting C++ 2016
by Jens Weller
The top 7 Talks chosen by the voting:
Exploring C++17 and beyond
C++ Static Analysis
Functional reactive programming in C++
C++ Core Guidelines: Migrating your Code Base
Want fast C++? Know your hardware!
The memory model in C++
Implementing `static` control flow in C++14
By Jason Turner | Jun 20, 2016 08:14 AM | Tags: intermediate c++11
Episode 16 of C++ Weekly.
Avoiding `std::bind`
by Jason Turner
About the show:
After discussing how to use `std::bind` from C++11 in the last episode, Jason follows up with why you should never use `std::bind`, and the alternatives that are available.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 17, 2016 02:16 PM | Tags: intermediate c++14
The last of the compile time constant series.
Modern C++ Features – constexpr
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
In the last two weeks I have written about the basics of compile time constants and calculation with those constants. This week I conclude this mini series with the keyword constexpr added in C++11/14...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 17, 2016 02:08 PM | Tags: efficiency advanced
Have you registered for CppCon 2016 in September? Don’t delay – Early Bird 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:
C++ for cross-platform VR
by Nicolas Lazareff
Summary of the talk:
This talk is an overview of how C++ can be used to quickly create cross-platform virtual reality experiences while sharing one codebase.
To support all major vendors, a VR experience has to span not only across operating systems, but also device types, hardware specs, manufacturers, and SDKs -- and so pitfalls and learnings from shipping on Oculus mobile and desktop, Google Cardboard, and soon Sony's Morpheus will be discussed.
We'll cover networking, graphics, SDK wrappers, and even abstracting language oddities (Android's Java layer for Oculus mobile).
By robwirving | Jun 17, 2016 07:44 AM | Tags: None
Episode 60 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Pardoe to discuss Visual C++ conformance progress as well as experimental features like Modules.
CppCast Episode 60: Visual C++ Conformance with Andrew Pardoe
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Andrew started working at Microsoft in 2002. He worked for the C++ team for exactly five years, first on testing the Itanium optimizer and then on the Phoenix compiler platform. He left in 2007 to become a PM on the CLR team (the C# runtime). Andrew left that job about two years ago and through the magic of corporate reorgs ended up as the C++ compiler PM.
In his role at Microsoft Andrew pays attention to pretty much everything without a GUI: the compiler front end/parser, code analysis, and a little bit to the optimizer. He also owns the tools acquisition story—such as the VC++ Build Tools SKU and updating to latest daily drops through NuGet—and Clang/C2. The Clang/C2 work is what ties Andrew into the Islandwood team, and the code analysis work focuses mostly on the C++ Core Guidelines checkers.
By Blog Staff | Jun 17, 2016 01:12 AM | Tags: None
Have you registered yet for CppCon 2016? With 93 days to go before the event, we have more attendees already registered than ever before at this point before the conference. They got the Early Bird discount, and so can you for another two weeks.
In addition to 5 great keynote and plenary talks, you'll enjoy 100+ of the top C++ sessions in the world -- the program committee has been sorting through some 200 session submissions and will soon announce their selection of this year's "100+ best of 2016" that will be accepted for the event. CppCon also offers two-day pre-conference classes, panels, poster sessions, lightning talks, and much more. New this year: an exhibitors' area where you can see and try the latest C++ tools and libraries. And of course, as always, a huge part of the event is the week-long interaction with fellow attendees, making CppCon the best learning and networking opportunity for C++ developers across all industries and disciplines in a relaxed and inviting festival atmosphere.
To see what others have had to say about CppCon, check out the attendee video, featuring a soundtrack of original music written and performed by the CppCon house band. And check out the video archive of 2014 and 2015 talks on YouTube and on Channel 9.
CppCon is "the" C++ event of the year. Early Bird registration closes on July 1. If you haven't registered yet, register today!
By fj | Jun 16, 2016 11:31 PM | Tags: None
Krzysztof Ostrowski describes in his article enabling iteration over a sequence of objects of given type without changing the type name itself.
Enabling forward traversal
by Krzysztof Ostrowski
From the article:
Let's consider following example. We have legacy interface that constructs object of type T using information stored in object of type U:
bool build_from(T& into, const U& from);Such a build_from can be deserialiser function, e.g. from JSON to C++ type, for example:
result_type deserialise(T& into, const json_node_type& from);Ideally, we should return into rather than taking it as an input argument, i.e. return optional<T> or type that carries information about the errors too, like C++ counterpart of Either. Unfortunately, we have to deal with legacy interafce, so that existing contracts cannot be broken, and our patch sets shall favour composition and extension over the modification.
With deserialise we know how to convert internal JSON representation into object of type T. That works fine for non-structured types. JSON offers associative containers (dictionaries, hashes, structures as defined in YAML) and collections. Dictionaries map easily to product types, struct in C++, and for those we typically need custom deserialisation procedures. Collections may be seen as abstractions over structures, or – more functionally – as sequenced values of type T for collection of type [T]. Since we know how to deserialise objects of type T, we can deserialise [T] by simply mapping deserialise over a sequence of T objects, that is doing forward traversal. Unfortunately we have just one JSON node from, not a sequence of nodes. We need to enable forward traversal for the type json_node_type with minimal number of changes.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 16, 2016 01:11 PM | Tags: community
The new Qt has arrived!
Qt 5.7 released
by Lars Knoll
From the article:
I’m very happy to announce that Qt 5.7 is now available. It’s been only 3 months since we released Qt 5.6, so one might expect a rather small release with Qt 5.7. But apart from the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, we have managed to add a whole bunch of new things to this release.