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CppCon Early Bird registration closes on Friday

By Blog Staff | Jun 27, 2016 09:28 AM | Tags: None

cppcon-082.PNGThis is it! Four days left -- CppCon 2016 Early Bird registration closes on Friday.

As a warmup, the optional pre-conference classes run Saturday and Sunday, and then CppCon 2016 Week kicks off on Monday morning with an opening keynote by Bjarne Stroustrup on the latest in the C++ world, followed by more than 100 of the best C++ talks of 2016, lightning talks, panels, exhibitors where you can try live products and find one-on-one helpdesks to get popular C++ compilers' developers to help you with your questions, and more.

And of course, a full week of around-the-clock interaction with fellow attendees from across industries and disciplines, making CppCon the best learning and networking opportunity for C++ developers 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 Friday. If you haven't registered yet, register today!

How to Convince Your Boss to Send You to CPPCon (at company expense!)

By ramey | Jun 27, 2016 03:52 AM | Tags: None

The CPPcon conference is tremendously educational and interesting. The venue in Bellevue Washington is very, very nice and agreeable.  Attendees get to rub elbows with well known people in the business.  For  A C++ programmer to be standing in the registration queue next to Bjarne Stroustrup, Sean Parent, (or myself -- lol) is actually a physical thrill -- like meeting a rock star. Add in emotional disputes about arcane topics that no one else understands, good music, good beer, free snacks and coffee it's better than a vacation -- which is basically is -- and paid by the company without impacting your wife's vacation time. It might even enhance your career! And's all free because the company is paying for it!

But course you can't you can't get all these benefits unless you can get your company to send you!  So here's my suggestion on how to get you company to pay for it. 

  • Don't spend too much time on the above explanation of what the conference is really like.
  • Promise to post each evening a report on the sessions you've attended and your review of them.  At least some of the sessions you've attended will be relevant to issues currently confronting your team.  Such an internal posting will permit your team members to ask more questions while you've still got access to the other conference attendees and speakers.  This could spark new ideas on making better/faster progress on your products. 
  • Pitch conference as a place to send people to get new ideas useful in solving the companies or boss's problems. Of course this presumes that a) your company actually has problems and b) that people realise this.
  • You'll be able to "scout" content that is particularly relevant to you current challenges. Since all the content is later available on video, other team members and the company will benefit from it with out having to wade through hours other stuff.  So your team mates will be able to watch video on company time! This will somewhat ameliorate the resent they'll have about you going the conference while they stay at the office lashed to the hamster wheel.

Hope this works for you and hope to see a record turnout.

Talks at Meeting C++ 2016

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

CppCon Early Bird Registration: Two weeks left

By Blog Staff | Jun 17, 2016 01:12 AM | Tags: None

cppcon-093.PNG 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!

Italian C++ Conference 2016--Marco Arena

By Marco Arena | May 20, 2016 01:34 AM | Tags: community

A brief article on the first edition of:

Italian C++ Conference 2016

by Marco Arena

From the article:

After two years of meetups and participations in Italy, last Saturday we had more than 100 people attending (130+ registered people – ~22% drop) the first edition of the Italian C++ Conference, in Milan, our new free event fully focused on C++. Hosted by “Bicocca” University and sponsored by RogueWave Software, we delivered 5×60′ technical sessions, 1×30′ sponsor demo session and 1×40′ Q/A panel. It has been a great day!...

C++Now 2016 trip report--Vittorio Romeo

By Adrien Hamelin | May 19, 2016 01:33 PM | Tags: c++14 advanced

Do you want to know what happened at the last C++Now?

C++Now 2016 trip report

by Vittorio Romeo

From the article:

I am very happy to have been part of the C++Now conference for another year, and I hope that I'll be able to come back in the future.

This year, I participated both as a speaker and as a Student/Volunteer.

The experience was, again, simply fantastic: I spent four days in a beautiful location, attended some of the most technically advanced and innovative C++ talks and, most importantly, had the occasion to meet a lot of amazing people.

As a Student/Volunteer, my tasks included: recording the talks, helping during the lunch break/picnic, assisting speakers during sessions and generally helping attendees when possible.

I'd like to thank Jon Kalb, Bryce Lelbach, and the rest of conference staff for making my participation possible.

In this trip report, I'll briefly describe some of my favorite talks and what I have learned from them, then introduce my sessions...