February 10-15, Hagenberg, Austria
March 19-21, Madrid, Spain
April 1-4, Bristol, UK
June 16-21, Sofia, Bulgaria
By Blog Staff | Mar 19, 2013 07:55 PM | Tags: None
As interest in C++ continues to increase, not only are we seeing more C++ events, but they're selling out quickly.
C++ Now (formerly BoostCon) just reported it is sold out with 53 days to go.
If you missed registering for C++ Now, check out additional C++ events coming up around the world in the Upcoming Events section on the sidebar.
By Blog Staff | Mar 15, 2013 10:23 AM | Tags: intermediate basics advanced
As C++ heats up, we continue to see new conferences including this one that launched last year. Europe's newest C++ conference is being held again in 2013, with room for 250 attendees and several standards committee members already signed up to speak:
Meeting C++ 2013 Announcement
Call for Papers (open until May 15)
After last years great success, we will meet again for 2 days full of C++ in Germany this Fall. Meeting C++ 2013 will be again at the 2nd weekend of November (8./9.11.2013). This time the conference will take place at the Lindner Congresshotel in Düsseldorf. For this year there will be 25 Talks and up to 2 keynotes for the 250 attendees at the conference! ...
There will be 3 Tracks about C++ this year, with the 3rd track being a theme track about C++ and UI. ... The other two tracks will offer general C++ talks like last year.
By Blog Staff | Mar 14, 2013 03:14 PM | Tags: None
The Fall 2013 standards meeting invitation paper with registration link has now been posted.
A link to this paper, and to its embedded registration link, also appear under Upcoming Events on the sidebar of this site and on the Upcoming Meetings page.
Document number: N3577
Date: 2013-03-14
Fall 2013 JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ Standards Committee Meeting
by Nevin Liber
By Blog Staff | Mar 11, 2013 04:24 PM | Tags: None
For those in the Bay area this week, the ACCU USA Chapter is presenting the following talk:
DDS Programming using Modern C++
Speaker: Sumant Tambe
Date: March 13, 2013
Location: Symantec, VCAFE building, 350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road), Mountain View, CA USA 94043
Sumant writes:
Resurgence of C++ is spreading in many industries. International computer system standards that target C++ for application portability, are quickly adopting modern C++. At the Object Management Group (OMG) -- an international standards consortium -- the DDS-PSM-Cxx and the IDL2C++11 standards have been ahead of the curve. The DDS-PSM-Cxx is among the family of standards around the core Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard for developing high-performance distributed real-time systems. ...
I’m privileged to talk about the DDS-PSM-Cxx standard in a local event organized by the San Francisco Bay Area Association of C/C++ Users (ACCU). This is a great after-hours free-of-cost get-together for anyone who wants to know more about C++. The event will take place on March 13th in Mountain View not far from the RTI HQ.
By Blog Staff | Mar 1, 2013 03:06 PM | Tags: intermediate advanced
This just in on the C++ and Beyond blog... Scott Meyers writes:
Registration for C&B 2013 is open!
C++ and Beyond 2013 will take place December 9-12 at the Salish Lodge and Spa in Snoqualmie, Washington, USA (not far from Seattle). Registration is now open.
Attendance will be limited to 64 people. (That’s the capacity of the ballroom.) Given that C&B has attracted about 100 people each year, it’s essentially certain that we’ll sell out. As a result, I encourage you to sign up as soon as you can. Once we sell out, we’ll start a waiting list, but past experience suggests that we won’t be able to offer spots to more than a handful of people on that list.
Early bird registration runs through June 9 and features a 10% discount off the standard registration fee.
Detailed information about C++ and Beyond is available at its web site:
- A summary of the event and an overview of the thinking behind it.
- The (always evolving) schedule for C&B 2013.
- Venue information, including how to make your hotel reservation (which is separate from registering for C&B itself).
- The C&B FAQ.
- Videos of past C&B presentations.
Andrei and Herb and I hope to see you at C&B 2013 in December!
Scott
By Blog Staff | Feb 11, 2013 10:41 AM | Tags: intermediate basics advanced
The final dates and location are now set for C++ and Beyond 2013 with Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter, and Andrei Alexandrescu:
December 9-12, 2013 in beautiful Snoqualmie, Washington, USA.
From Scott Meyers' announcement:
About a month ago, I posted tentative dates for C&B 2013. I cautioned that there was no contract yet, and I’m glad I did, because shortly thereafter we discovered an off-by-one scheduling snafu. As a result, the dates are not the ones I posted earlier, they’re a day later: Monday evening, December 9, through Thursday, December 12.The inital C&B in 2010 was held at the Salish Lodge and Spa in Snoqualmie, Washington, USA. In 2011, we had a larger group in a larger venue, and last year we bumped up the numbers again. Growth was ours, it seemed, but we sensed that C&B was looking more like a conventional conference and less like the unique event we had originally envisioned. For 2013, we decided to return to our roots, both geographically and organizationally.
C&B 2013 will return to the Salish Lodge and Spa in Snoqualmie, Washington (not far from Seattle). Enrollment will again be limited to the capacity of the ballroom (~64 attendees). Scott will again lead lunchtime walks. Evenings will again feature free-form “hang out with the speakers” sessions. Hotel guestrooms will again boast fireplaces, whirlpool tubs for two, and one whopping big waterfall just steps from the front door. If you were part of C&B 2010, you know what I’m talking about. If you weren’t, ask around: you’ll wish you had been.
We’ll announce more details when they’ve been finalized, including when registration for C&B 2013 will begin. In the meantime, reserve December 9-12 for C++ and Beyond 2013 in Snoqualmie, Washington, USA.
By Blog Staff | Jan 22, 2013 10:25 AM | Tags: intermediate
A video preview is available for Doug Schmidt's upcoming free MOOC with Vanderbilt University via Coursera:
Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software
Next session: Starts March 4 (8 weeks long)
Workload: 4-6 hours/week
Douglas C. Schmidt is a Professor of Computer Science, Associate Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering program, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, all at Vanderbilt University. He has also been the Chief Technology Officer for the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was responsible for directing the technical vision and strategic R&D investments.
C++ developers will know of Doug particularly because of his widely-acclaimed ACE and related libraries.
We asked Doug to provide an overview in his own words of what you can expect to see in the course and how it relates to C++11 in particular:
After a short ~45 minute intro to the topics covered in the course, the rest of the videos are divided into the following sections:
- [~3 hours] Intro to concurrency and networking, which provides background info at the OS and middleware levels. This part focuses on concepts and is largely language-neutral.
- [~7 hours] Intro to patterns and frameworks, which provides coverage of pattern-oriented software architecture, with an emphasis on concurrent and networked software. Small C++ and Java examples are shown throughout, though the main focus of this section is more on design techniques rather than programming, per se.
- [~6 hours] Applying patterns and frameworks to develop concurrent and networked software, which examines *lots* of C++ code. A high-performance HTTP web server is used as a running example to illustrate patterns and frameworks in practice. 80-90% of the focus is on C++ here, with some examples showing how you can do similar types of things in Java to demonstrate the generality of pattern and framework techniques.
- [~3 hours] An appendix that provides an overview of C++ (including C++11 features), a case study of fundamental "Gang of Four" patterns that aren't directly related to concurrent and networked software, and other background information that may be of interest to some course participants.
By Eric Niebler | Jan 16, 2013 01:03 PM | Tags: None
For many of our readers, LLVM and Clang will need no introduction. LLVM is a modular compiler toolchain, and Clang is an LLVM front-end for the C family of languages. They're both implemented in C++. Together, they're taking the C++ toolchain in new directions. Be a part of the action at this just-announced developer conference in April in Paris. (Does it get better?) From the announcement:
Announcements
We are pleased to announce the third European LLVM conference on April 29-30 2013 in Paris, France. This will be a two day conference which aims to present the latest developments in the LLVM world and help strengthen the network of LLVM developers. The format will be similar to that of the previous meetings held in London but with more time for presentations and networking. The meeting is open to anyone whether from business or academia, professional or enthusiast and is not restricted to those from Europe -- attendees from all regions are welcome.
This meeting is about 8 days after the ISO C++ standardization meeting in Bristol, UK. Twofer, anyone? The full announcement gives all the details.
By Blog Staff | Jan 3, 2013 12:42 PM | Tags: None
Scott Meyers has announced dates for another C++ and Beyond seminar with Scott, Herb Sutter, and Andrei Alexandrescu:
There will be a C++ and Beyond 2013! The dates are tentatively set to be December 8-11, so block that time out on your calendar. We have a venue picked out, but we haven’t signed a contract yet, so I can’t make any announcement about where C&B 2013 will take place. I expect to be able to tell you all about it within the next few weeks, however.
Until then, hold December 8-11, 2013, for more in-depth, in-sightful, in-triguing, in-vestigations into the world of C++... and Beyond
Scott
By Eric Niebler | Dec 11, 2012 09:52 AM | Tags: None
[Ed. Your friendly neighborhood isocpp.org editor can highly recommend this event, formerly known as BoostCon. From the announcement:]
Registration for C++Now 2013 Is Now Open!
The seventh annual C++Now Conference (formerly BoostCon) will be held at the Aspen Center for Physics in Aspen, Colorado, May 12th to 17th, 2013.
"We are thrilled to announce the second annual C++Now conference, the whole-language edition of BoostCon covering all the coolest topics in C++," said Dave Abrahams, Conference Co-Chair. "In 2012, we broadened the conference scope by adding a third track and offering more C++11 coverage than any other event, and the community responded with an unprecedented number of registrations. In 2013, we are going to build on that success with foundational sessions integrating what we've all learned about using C++11 during the past year, while continuing the exploration of cutting-edge topics that BoostCon attendees have come to expect."
Read the full announcement for the registration deadlines and a special call for volunteers, who get their registration fees waived.
