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An interview with Sean Parent

By Meeting C++ | Jul 7, 2016 02:41 AM | Tags: sean parent interview

I had the opportunity to interview Sean Parent!

An Interview with Sean Parent

by Jens Weller

From the Interview:

Lets start with the Introduction, who is Sean Parent?

Introducing yourself is always the toughest question. I’ve been a software developer for nearly 30 years and I’ve been fortunate enough to work on some great products and with some great people. I started my career at a small company, Orange Micro, where I wrote a print spooler for Mac (before MultiFinder) and “hijacked” Apple’s ImageWriter printer drivers to work with a wide variety of printers. I worked at Apple in the QuickDraw GX printing group (GX didn’t survive but lives on in spirit in Skia) and I worked on the PowerMac team that did the transition from 68K processors to PowerPC. I joined the Photoshop team at Adobe during the development of Photoshop 3.0, and managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab for many years. I worked briefly at Google on the ChromeOS project, and then returned to Adobe where I’ve been working on mobile and web digital imaging products since.

What is your role as a principal scientist at adobe?

The role of a principal scientist in general is to act as a multiplier. I act as a consultant for individuals and groups, I work on various products and projects where I perceive a need. I helped to bring the rendering technology from Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plugin to mobile, first for the Revel product (a now defunct Lightroom like product for non-professionals) and then for Lightroom Mobile. I also brought the engine up inside the browser which is now part of Lightroom Web.

CppCon 2015 Time Programming Fundamentals--Greg Miller

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 6, 2016 08:00 AM | Tags: intermediate 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:

Time Programming Fundamentals

by Greg Miller

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

"Time zones are logical and easy to use." -- No one ever

Time programming is notoriously difficult and error prone. Attempts at handling daylight-saving time, for example, often yield baffling code, which of course is explained by a similarly misguided comment. Programmer confusion can spread virally throughout the codebase when these misconceptions find their way into library interfaces.

The problem is not that dates and times are fundamentally complicated (though they are). The problem is the lack of a simplified mental model with library support. This would give programmers the concepts and vocabulary necessary to reason about and discuss these concepts, and the ability to express this reasoning in simple C++ terms.

In this talk I will show how date and time programming evolved into what it is today. I will present a greatly simplified mental model that applies to all programming languages. I will show clear examples using an open source C++ library that implements these simplified concepts. And I will present practical tips for proper time hygiene that should be used by everyone immediately.

Cevelop 1.5 is out

By Jordi Mon Companys | Jul 6, 2016 07:25 AM | Tags: None

Good news from the Cevelop team

Finally Cevelop's C++ IDE is out

Cevelop team

From the article:

A special thanks to all the testers and bug reporters! There might still be problems and false positives in our code-analysis plug-ins (don’t forget that you can now suppress unwanted messages).

CppCon 2015 functional: What's New, And Proper Usage--Stephan T. Lavavej

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 4, 2016 08:00 AM | Tags: intermediate experimental c++11

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:

functional: What's New, And Proper Usage

by Stephan T. Lavavej

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

functional gained lots of machinery in C++11, with further changes in C++14 and C++17. This talk will cover what's new in 11/14/17, focusing on how to use it properly. For example, you've probably used std::function, but do you know the criteria for activating the Small Functor Optimization? (It's not just being small!) We'll also look at bind(), mem_fn(), C++17's invoke(), and more.

C++ User Group Meetings in July

By Meeting C++ | Jul 2, 2016 08:25 AM | Tags: community

The monthly overview of upcoming C++ User Group meetings at Meeting C++:

C++ User Group Meetings in July

by Jens Weller

From the article:

In July there are 23 C++ User Groups meeting already, and a few more are probably still planning their meetings.

There are 2 new C++ User Groups: Stockholm and Copenhagen.

New Book “C++ Standard Library Quick Reference” Now Available

By Marc Gregoire | Jul 2, 2016 07:10 AM | Tags: None

Marc Gregoire’s and Peter Van Weert’s brand new book “C++ Standard Library Quick Reference”, published by Apress is now available:

C++ Standard Library Quick Reference (Apress) 
C++ Standard Library Quick Reference (Amazon)

By Marc Gregoire and Peter Can Weert

From the abstract:

This quick reference is a condensed reference guide to the essential data structures, algorithms, and functions provided by the C++ Standard Library. Used by millions of C++ programmers on a daily basis, the C++ Standard Library features core classes for strings, I/O streams, and various generic containers, as well as a comprehensive set of algorithms to manipulate them. In recent years, the C++11 and C++14 standards have added even more efficient container classes, a new powerful regular expression library, and a portable multithreading library featuring threads, mutexes, condition variables, and atomic variables.

Needless to say, it is hard to know and remember all the possibilities, details, and intricacies of this vast and growing library. This handy reference guide is therefore indispensable to any C++ programmer. It offers a condensed, well-structured summary of all essential aspects of the C++ Standard Library. No page-long, repetitive examples or obscure, rarely used features. Instead, everything you need to know and watch out for in practice is outlined in a compact, to-the-point style, interspersed with practical tips and well-chosen, clarifying examples. The book does not explain the C++ language or syntax, but is accessible to anyone with basic C++ knowledge or programming experience. Even the most experienced C++ programmer though will learn a thing or two from it and find it a useful memory-aid. Among the topics covered are:

  • The essentials that the C++ Standard Library has to offer
  • How to use containers to efficiently store and retrieve your data
  • How to use algorithms to inspect and manipulate your data
  • How lambda expressions allow for elegant use of algorithms
  • What the standard string class provides and how to use it
  • How to write localized applications
  • What functionality the library provides for file and stream-based I/O
  • What smart pointers are and how to use them to prevent memory leaks
  • How to write safe and efficient multi-threaded code using the C++11 threading libraries

 

CppCon 2015 Grill the Committee

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 1, 2016 08:00 AM | Tags: community

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:

Grill the Committee

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

What would you like to know about how the C++ Standard happens?

The panel is made up of members of the C++ Standards Committee and the audience asks the questions.

Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Oulu) -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | Jun 30, 2016 04:17 PM | Tags: None

A comprehensive trip report from the just-concluded ISO C++ meeting:

Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Oulu)

by Herb Sutter

From the article:

The big news is that C++ is feature-complete, and on time! We added several more features to the C++17 working paper (see next section), then approved the result to be sent out this summer for its major ISO international comment ballot, which is the Committee Draft or “CD” ballot.

... At this meeting, we added several more features into C++17: ...