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Schedule for ACCU 2015 has been published

By Olve Maudal | Jan 13, 2015 04:28 AM | Tags: None

The schedule for the annual ACCU Conference has just been published. The conference will be held at Marriott Hotel City Centre, in Bristol, UK, on April 21-25, 2015. The conference is focused on professionalism in programming, but as always the schedule contains a lot of talks about C++.

ACCU is a small and friendly conference, typically 300-400 attendees living together in the same hotel for a week discussing everything about programming. Most of the talks are 90 minutes, with long breaks inbetween, inviting to deep and insightful discussions both during and after the sessions. If you are into programming, especially C++, this is a conference that you might want to consider.

Ask the STL Creator about Generic Programming

By Jon Kalb | Jan 8, 2015 04:14 PM | Tags: None

An online (Slashdot) interview of Alexander Stepanov and Daniel Rose, authors of "From Mathematics to Generic Programming" is now soliciting questions.

Add a reply to this Slashdot announcement to pose a questions. Ask as many questions as you'd like, but only one question per reply please:

Interview: Ask Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose a Question

An anonymous reader writes:

"Alexander Stepanov studied mathematics at Moscow State University and has been programming since 1972. His work on foundations of programming has been supported by GE, Brooklyn Polytechnic, AT&T, HP, SGI, and, since 2002, Adobe. In 1995 he received the Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award for the design of the C++ Standard Template Library. Currently, he is the Senior Principal Engineer at A9.com. Daniel E. Roseis a programmer and research scientist who has held management positions at Apple, AltaVista, Xigo, Yahoo, and is the Chief Scientist for Search at A9.com. His research focuses on all aspects of search technology, ranging from low-level algorithms for index compression to human-computer interaction issues in web search. Rose led the team at Apple that created desktop search for the Macintosh. In addition to working together, the pair have recently written a book, From Mathematics to Generic Programming. Alexander and Daniel have agreed to answer any questions you may have about their book, their work, or programming in general. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post."

C++ Now talk submission deadline extended to January 11

By Blog Staff | Dec 30, 2014 10:54 AM | Tags: None

Just a reminder: In case you missed the original December 21 deadline for C++ Now proposal submissions, you still have time... the deadline has been extended to January 11.

(revised) 2015 Call for Submissions

Submission Deadline Extended!

The C++Now Program Committee is very excited about the quality this year’s submissions, but to increase the quantity of submissions, we are announcing an extension of the submission deadline until January 11th. We still hope to meet our February deadline for notifications.

Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures -- Chandler Carruth

By George Ryan | Dec 2, 2014 08:38 AM | Tags: performance c++14 c++11

carruth-cppcon2014.PNGAt the recent CppCon 2014, Chandler Carruth gave a great talk on using Modern C++ for writing high-performance applications. 

Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures

by Chandler Carruth

From the video introduction:

C++ programmers throughout the industry have an insatiable desire for writing high performance code. Unfortunately, even with C++, this can be really challenging. Over the past twenty years processors, memory, software libraries, and even compilers have radically changed what makes C++ code fast. Even measuring the performance of your code can be a daunting task. This talk will dig into how modern processors work, what makes them fast, and how to exploit them effectively with modern C++ code.

C++ User Group Meetings in December

By Meeting C++ | Nov 30, 2014 08:39 AM | Tags: user group community

Its again the time to list the monthly meetings, this time its for December:

C++ User Group Meetings in December

by Jens Weller

From the Article

Three years ago, my own user group had its first meeting in December, being the second active C++ user group in Europe back in 2011. Since then a lot has changed, this December there are a lot more user groups meeting, and also we'll have the last premier C++ Event of the year: Meeting C++ is next week!

Meetings in December

    1.12 C++ UG Hungary - Template Metaprogramming With Better Tools
    2.12 C++ UG Chicago - The Bash Bug And The OpenSSL Bug
    3.12 C++ UG Saint Louis - Next meeting
    3.12 C++ UG Austin - Double Feature
    4.12 C++ UG Dublin - std::begin
    9.12 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - C++11's New Pointer Types
    10.12 C++ UG Utah - Iterators\, Containers and Algorithms in the Standard Library
    10.12 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Presentation and Q&A
    11.12 C++ UG Dresden - Dezember Treffen
    13.12 C++ UG Pune, India - Introduction to C++ Template Metaprogramming and Domain Specific
    15.12 C++ UG Denver - Denver Tech Center C++ Developers
    15.12 C++ UG Austin - North Austin Monthly C/C++ Pub Social
    17.12 C++ UG Düsseldorf - Christmas special!
    18.12 C++ UG Paris - C++ FRUG #5 - L'asynchronisme en deux talks
    18.12 C++ UG Amsterdam - Let's have a meetup in December
    18.12 C++ UG Hamburg - Qt DevDays & Meeting C++

28 C++ User Group Meetings in November!

By Meeting C++ | Nov 2, 2014 06:29 AM | Tags: user groups community

The monthly listing of the upcoming C++ User Group meetings brings a new record in November: 28 User Groups are meeting so far:

C++ User Group meetings in November

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Meetings in November

    4.11 C++ UG OC Qt - Qt Developer Days 2014 San Francisco
    4.11 C++ UG Warsaw - "Co nowego w C++14"
    5.11 C++ UG Saint Louis - First official meeting for our group
    5.11 C++ UG Austin - Austin C/C++ Boost Double Feature
    6.11 C++ UG Malmö/c++ folk - LLVM/Clang on Windows
    8.11 C++ UG C++ Italy - Italian C++ Community Meetup Bologna
    8.11 C++ UG Pune, India - C++11 Move Semantics and STL optimizations + A look at LibreOffic
    12.11 C++ UG Utah - Efficient Parsing with Boost.Spirit
    12.11 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Presentation and Q&A
    13.11 C++ UG NRW/Aachen - C++ User Gruppe (November)
    13.11 C++ UG Dresden - TDD
    13.11 C++ UG New York - Experience with C++11 in ArangoDB
    17.11 C++ UG Juce - JUCE Meetup Helsinki
    17.11 C++ UG Denver - Denver Tech Center C++ Developers
    17.11 C++ UG Austin - North Austin Monthly C/C++ Pub Social
    18.11 C++ UG Chicago - Highlights of the Standards Committee Meeting
    19.11 C++ UG Düsseldorf - Treffen der C++ User Gruppe NRW
    19.11 C++ UG Santa Barbara - Brett Hall will give a talk on Transactional Memory and C++
    19.11 C++ UG Seattle/NorthWest - Debugging, Profiling, and Diagnostics for C++ in Visual Studio vNext
    19.11 C++ UG Hamburg - C++14
    20.11 C++ UG Juce - JUCE Meetup Paris
    20.11 C++ UG Bristol - Save the date
    25.11 C++ UG Montpellier - Meetup C++ novembre
    26.11 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Workshop and Discussion Group
    26.11 C++ UG London - monthly MeetUp
    27.11 C++ UG Rhein-Neckar - C++ Usergroup Meeting
    28.11 C++ UG Istanbul - Debugging with GDB
    29.11 C++ UG Russia - Novosibirsk Meeting

A very special Sponsorship: CppCon and the Standard C++ Foundation -- Jens Weller

By Blog Staff | Oct 29, 2014 01:38 AM | Tags: None

Jens Weller has been doing an awesome job in Europe for the past several years, both in helping to found new C++ user groups and in putting on the really great Meeting C++ conference.

Such good work deserves to be supported, and so we're pleased to report that CppCon and the Standard C++ Foundation have agreed to be an ongoing sponsor of Meeting C++ -- in 2014 and beyond:

A very special Sponsorship: CppCon and the Standard C++ Foundation

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Today I can announce a very special sponsorship: CppCon and the Standard C++ Foundation has joined Meeting C++ as a long time sponsor! The Standard C++ Foundation is for this and the coming years the keynote sponsor for Meeting C++, last year this was BlackBerry.

Back in 2012, Meeting C++ and isocpp.org, the Standard C++ Foundation's website, got started. Both share a common goal: to support C++ and its community. Meeting C++ has helped the founding of a European network for C++, growing from 2 user groups in 2011 to 25 user groups in 2014. With isocpp.org, CppCon and Meeting C++ we want to bring this now to a global level.

Which brings me to what role CppCon has in this sponsorship. The CppCon is the official conference of the Standard C++ Foundation, and similar to Meeting C++ it is a great, community driven C++ Conference. Both share to have their roots in C++Now. While I was at CppCon, people already recognized Meeting C++ as its European counter part. But Europe has a very versatile C++ conference scene, with usingstdcpp in Madrid, Accu in Bristol, ADC in Bavaria, NDC next year in London, and Meeting C++ in Berlin. So Europe has a vivid and growing scene of C++ conferences!

So CppCon and the Standard C++ Foundation is now a long time Keynote & Platinum Sponsor of Meeting C++!

I also asked Herb Sutter about a statement why the Standard C++ Foundation and CppCon is sponsoring Meeting C++, so here is Herb's statement:

CppCon and the Standard C++ Foundation want to support Meeting C++’s great work of fostering C++ in Europe, from the Meeting C++ conference itself to its with incubating and encouraging a growing number of C++ user groups all across Europe.