October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Jason Turner | Nov 28, 2017 01:12 PM | Tags: None
Episode 91 of C++ Weekly.
Using Lippincott Functions
by Jason Turner
About the show:
In this episode Jason demonstrates what a Lippincott function is, how to use one, and how they might be used to greatly reduce the amount of generated code when writing templated functions that handle exceptions.
By Ansel Sermersheim | Nov 27, 2017 12:31 PM | Tags: None
New videos on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:
Multithreading in C++
by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim
About the video:
Covers the terminology of multithreaded design, why it can be challenging, and presents some examples of resources, threads, and locking.
Multithreading with libGuarded
by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim
About the video:
Discusses some of the classes in libGuarded, which provides a higher level abstraction for managing access to shared data.
Please take a look and remember to subscribe!
By Adi | Nov 27, 2017 12:30 PM | Tags: None
Adi Shavit reports from the recent code::dive conference
code::dive Trip Report
by Adi Shavit
From the article:
The code::dive conference took place last week in Poland at the beautiful city of Wrocław (pronounced VROWTS-WAF). I had seen excellent videos of talks from previous years and this year promised a roster of distinguished speakers.
I had never been to a C++ conference before and beyond the talks I was looking forward to meeting face-to-face many of my online Slack, Twitter and GitHub friends, followers and followees, as well as many of the speakers whose work I’ve been following online through blogs, repos and videos.
By GarethRichards | Nov 27, 2017 12:29 PM | Tags: None
Learning about Machine learning with C++.
Machine Learning with C++
by Gareth Richards
From the article:
An introduction to Machine learning demonstrating a how to write a short C++ library which can recognize handwritten digits and implements the standard learning algorithm for neural networks, known as stochastic gradient descent.
By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 24, 2017 02:16 PM | Tags: stl intermediate
And how back_inserter works.
How to Use the STL With Legacy Output Collections
by Jonathan Boccara
From the article:
When you start using the STL and its algorithms in your code, it’s a bit of a change of habits. And then after a while you get used to it. Then it becomes a second nature. And then even your dreams become organized into beautifully structured ranges that fly in and out of well-oiled algorithms.
And when you reach that point, there is no coming back.
Until the day you come upon an old legacy structure that won’t let itself approached by the elegant and expressive way of coding that STL algorithms have. It’s a terrible encounter, where the beast tries to suck you back into the lengthy and dangerous quicksand of the raw for loops that now seemed so far away...
By robwirving | Nov 24, 2017 09:18 AM | Tags: None
Episode 127 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Dave Moore from Oculus Research to talk about the Oculus C++ SDK and Augmented Reality.
CppCast Episode 127: Oculus Research with Dave Moore
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Dave Moore started programming after getting fired from his college work study job. This worried his parents, but it seems to have worked out in the end. After spending 17 years in and around the computer games industry, most recently at RAD Game Tools, he's now a software engineer at Oculus Research, working to advance the computer vision technology underlying virtual and augmented reality.
By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 21, 2017 01:13 PM | Tags: community c++20
A thorough and detailed summary of the recent six-day meeting.
Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Albuquerque, November 2017
by Botond Ballo
From the article:
A couple of weeks ago I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee (also known as WG21) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This was the third committee meeting in 2017; you can find my reports on previous meetings here (February 2017, Kona) and here (July 2017, Toronto). These reports, particularly the Toronto one, provide useful context for this post.
With the final C++17 International Standard (IS) having been voted for publication, this meeting was focused on C++20, and the various Technical Specifications (TS) we have in flight, most notably Modules...
By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 21, 2017 01:10 PM | Tags: intermediate c++17
New possibilities open in front of us!
Simplifying Compile-Time Options With if constexpr
by Philippe Groarke
From the article:
My latest little experiment relates to compile-time options and eliminating preprocessor checks in user code. I’m not a big fan of MACROs, especially when they are simply used to make compile-time branches. I am also not a fan of other techniques used to minimize this problem. With C++17, we now have a beautiful and simple tool that can help remove all these preprocessor checks, if constexpr...
By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 17, 2017 02:05 PM | Tags: experimental advanced
The future implementation?
Implementing the spaceship operator for optional
by Barry Revzin
From the article:
Last week, the C++ Standards Committee added operator<=>, known as the spaceship operator, to the working draft for what will eventually become C++20. This is an exciting new language feature for two reasons: it allows you to write one function to do all your comparisons where you used to have to write six, and it also allows you to write zero functions — just declare the operator as defaulted and the compiler will do all the work for you! Exciting times...
By robwirving | Nov 17, 2017 08:07 AM | Tags: None
Episode 126 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Rong Lu to talk about C++ support with the Visual Studio Code Editor and some of the recent improvements made to it.
CppCast Episode 126: VS Code with Rong Lu
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Rong Lu is a Program Manager in the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. She has been on the Visual Studio team since she graduated with her master degree in computer science 10 years ago. She currently works on Visual Studio tools for games, C++ mobile, and the C++ experience in Visual Studio Code. Before joining the C++ team, she spent 4 years building the VS SharePoint and architecture tools.