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Less than two weeks till C++ and Beyond Stuttgart

By Blog Staff | Sep 16, 2014 09:57 AM | Tags: None

If you're in Europe and couldn't attend last week's CppCon, you have a closer option available: C++ and Beyond in Stuttgart with Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter, and Andrei Alexandrescu will be held on September 29 through October 1. Registration is still open.

C&B is a different event from CppCon -- a more intimate and interactive seminar, with classic material that the Three Amigos gave at C++ and Beyond in the past, plus breaking updates.

From the blogosphere:

C&B Stuttgart Just Two Weeks Away!
by Scott Meyers

Next stop: Stuttgart
by Herb Sutter

Trip Report: CppCon Just Ended -- Charley

By Blog Staff | Sep 15, 2014 02:45 PM | Tags: None

As folks are heading home, a number are writing up trip reports for the companies or colleagues. Here's one from the Qt community:

CppCon Just Ended

by Charley

From the post:

Apologies for cross-post qt-interest and qt-dev, but wanted to be sure both groups saw the announcement for next year (20-25 Sep-2015).

WOW AGAIN for a great conference.  Really heavy-hitters there, with information I don't know is available elsewhere...

This was a "first-year" conference, and it was a huge success (about 600 people, it exceeded their goals).  There is a strong possibility that it will double in size for next year, and they have a venue that can handle that...

Even though it was a "first-year" conference, it is interesting to note that a "culture" is clearly starting to form.  It was incredibly open, and collegiate, and supportive across the different industries and companies -- for newcomers and for experienced people (although it is most definitely a place where experienced people can finally discuss their advanced issues when they have nobody else at their company to help).

These were incredibly smart people merely coming together to talk about problems and solutions and experiences in using and growing C++.  I'm going back again next year (assuming their restraining order against me has expired by then).

CppCon 2014 is done -- Jon Kalb

By Blog Staff | Sep 15, 2014 02:30 PM | Tags: None

Wrapup:

CppCon 2014 is done

by Jon Kalb

From the article:

Some of the announcements made at the close of the conference include the fact that conference tee shirts are now available on our on-line store, presentation notes will be available on git hub, and our dates for next year will be September 20 – 25, 2015.

Before looking to next year and CppCon 2015, I’d like to thank all the people that made CppCon 2014 such a big success. First I’d like to thank the sponsors whose support is critical to the existence of the conference. I’d also like to thank all the presenters whose content made the conference what it is; the keynotes, the regular program presenters, the panelists and moderators, the Open Content presenters, and the Lightning Talk presenters. These presenters are busy, smart people, but they’ve taken the time to create presentations that excited attendees from all over the world.

I’ve a very big thanks for the conference staff who did so many things in so many ways to make this week-long experience valuable for our almost six hundred attendees.

Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank the attendees. They are the real value and attraction of this conference.

I can’t wait to see you all again next year.

Jon

Trip Report: CppCon 2014

By Herb Sutter | Sep 15, 2014 08:24 AM | Tags: None

CppCon 2014 was a blast. It lived up to its goal of being an inclusive event "by the C++ community for the C++ community" -- for the world's top experts and for students, from formal talks to lightning rounds and hallway hacking.

The festival atmosphere went on around the clock all week long, starting with daily 8:00am welcome/lightning talks, through the daily keynotes with live music followed by six tracks of sessions, through to well-attended evening sessions and panels ending at 10:00pm every night with people still lingering, reluctant to leave. All of us were running on little sleep because we didn't want to miss anything, but somehow it didn't seem to matter -- we should have been exhausted, but instead people kept commenting about how we felt energized instead.

It was a week for everyone: Talks and panels featured both established experts and first-time presenters and self-published authors. Session levels ranged from cutting-edge metaprogramming, to Stroustrup's keynote of "Keep Simple Things Simple!" Lightning talks overflowed, then overflowed again. Technical material ranged from modern C++ language topics, to Mars Rover flight control software, to the current hot trend of C++ being adopted as the "write once, target anywhere" language of choice for cross-platform iOS/Android/Mac/Windows apps at Dropbox, Office, Facebook, and more; we'll be sure to hear a lot more about that in the coming months and years.

All week long, advanced developers found themselves able to talk through design questions together with peers they wouldn't have met otherwise, and come up with solutions they couldn't find at home. At the same time, scores of students and other newcomers to C++ enjoyed the broad content and relaxed environment. It's telling that the book that the on-site bookstore kept selling out of was not some esoteric template tome, but Stroustrup's 180-page overview A Tour of C++. The C++ community is growing and inclusive, with lots of advanced folks and also new people, and both CppCon and C++ itself are very much for all of them.

Even top authors and experts broke new ground they wouldn't have been able to do if not face to face. Thanks to discussions at CppCon, it looks like a number of us, including Scott Meyers and Bjarne Stroustrup, are converging on "forwarding references" as the new and better term for "universal references," and confirm the simple default parameter-passing advice for modern C++ (spoiler: same as C++98). See the final slides of my closing plenary session for details on these developments.

As we return home in the afterglow, remember that all sessions were recorded and videos will be posted online in the next month or so. Slide handouts are already mostly posted for your reading pleasure. And CppCon 2015 will be on September 20-25 next year... mark your calendars.

Huge thanks again to the 150+ speakers, planners, and volunteers without whom this wonderful "C++ festival" (as several people spontaneously called it) would not have been possible. I had guardedly high hopes for the event, but I think it exceeded all our expectations. This was the most exciting and enlightening week I've experienced in my 20 years of C++, and I'm still catching my breath. I can't wait until September 2015.

CppCon: Call for Lightning Talks, Take 2 -- Boris Kolpackov

By Blog Staff | Sep 1, 2014 02:13 PM | Tags: None

CppCon minus one week:

Call for Lightning Talks, Take 2

by Boris Kolpackov

From the announcement:

As part of getting ready to come to CppCon 2014, please consider presenting a Lightning Talk. All attendees (as well as anyone nearby who is taking advantage of the free evening content without registering) are eligible to present a 5 or 15 minute session on Tuesday evening. While the first Call for Lightning Talks has more details on what we’re looking for, we’re open to talks from new speakers, from experienced speakers, from those who work mainly in another language and are visiting C++, from those who work in C++ all the time -- everyone! If there’s one tool you just love using, one technique or best practice you’d like to share with others, or one thing you think is pretty darn funny, please see if you can make it into a 5 or 15 minute talk and share it Tuesday evening. There will be a projector and there will be an audience so why not “give it a go” and see what happens?

We’ll be selecting the 8 sessions on Monday, Day 1 of the conference. Just email [email protected] and tell us what you want to talk about, what length you need and a little bit about yourself -- one sentence is fine. Your topic should be relevant to CppCon attendees but doesn’t need to be about C++ -- we’d love to see “Why C++ developers should also know [language]” for example. Even if you don’t plan to submit, plan to attend, it’s sure to be fun!
 

C++ User Group Meetings in September

By Meeting C++ | Sep 1, 2014 01:46 AM | Tags: user groups community

This time for September - the monthly overview on C++ User Group Meetings:

C++ User Group Meetings in September

by Jens Weller

From the article:

The monthly overview over the upcoming C++ User Group Meetings. This time a few new user groups meet, and as summer comes to an end more meetings might get scheduled in the next days. But due to me going to CppCon, I have to post this a bit earlier then usual.

The list of upcoming meetings:

    3.9 C++ UG London - Cross Platform Games: iOS to Android
    10.9 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Presentation and Q&A
    11.9 C++ UG Dresden
    15.9 C++ UG NRW/Dortmund
    17.9 C++ UG Düsseldorf - Treffen der C++ User Gruppe NRW
    17.9 C++ UG Hamburg - Praktische Übersicht über Valgrind
    17.9 C++ UG Seattle/northwest - Parallelism in the Standard C++: What to Expect in C++ 17
    20.9 C++ UG Pune, India - C++ and Boost Pune first meetup
    23.9 C++ UG Chicago - See you in September
    24.9 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Workshop and Discussion Group
    25.9 C++ UG Rhein-Neckar - September Meeting
    25.9 C++ UG London
    26.9 C++ UG Istanbul
    2.10 C++ UG Paris - C++ & Python

A coding dojo for Meeting C++

By Meeting C++ | Aug 26, 2014 03:38 AM | Tags: conference

I've just added something new to Meeting C++:

A coding dojo for Meeting C++

by Jens Weller

From the article:

I've just added something new to this years Meeting C++ schedule: a coding dojo...

Shortly after the announcement of this years conference Sven Johannsen and Detlef Wilkening approached me at a user group meeting, if it would be possible to include a coding dojo into Meeting C++. coding dojos are fun, and we already had two at my own user group, so I liked the idea. But first wanted to see how the general audience would vote on it as part of the talks.

The Idea was received well, but couldn't get high enough to justify a talk session being used. So, now the coding dojo will be placed in the lunch break of the first day. As this break is a bit longer anyway, you are able to have lunch and participate in the coding dojo. It will be moderated by Detlef Wilkening and Sven Johannsen.