Reminder: Bjarne Stroustrup live interview webcast on Monday

By Blog Staff | Dec 7, 2012 11:05 AM | Tags: None

Reminder: On Monday morning in California (find your local time), the free online CodeRage 7 conference will kick off with a special inverview with Bjarne Stroustrup.

Note that registration is free but required -- you need to register in order to get information on how to access the live GoToWebcast event.

SPECIAL SESSION: A C++ Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup and David Intersimone
 

Monday, December 10th - 8:00am - 8:45am PST (find your local time)

Bjarne Stroustrup will discuss the ISO C++11 standard, new language features, how C++11 builds on C++’s strengths, application portability, and C++’s ubiquitous presence in the markets.

 

Session Full?

We anticipate a very large audience for this special session.  In the event that the conference GoToWebinar session becomes full during this session, you may use the following link to listen to the audio stream:

AUDIO ONLY OVERFLOW - https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/692238398

Dec 10-12, free online: CodeRage 7 C++ conference, with special guest Bjarne Stroustrup

By Blog Staff | Nov 23, 2012 10:46 AM | Tags: None

CodeRage 7 is a free C++-themed online developer conference by Embarcadero, running from December 10-12 (Mon-Wed). Many of the sessions are vendor-specific, focusing notably on C++Builder, but there are two notable sessions likely of interest to C++ developers on all platforms.

SPECIAL SESSION: A C++ Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup and David Intersimone

Monday, December 10th - 8:00am - 8:45am PST (find your local time)

Bjarne Stroustrup will discuss the ISO C++11 standard, new language features, how C++11 builds on C++’s strengths, application portability, and C++’s ubiquitous presence in the markets.

 

The Resurgence of C++ for Application Development

John Thomas - Embarcadero

Tuesday, December 11th - 9:00am - 9:45am PST (find your local time)

Why C++ is back and coming on strong, and not just for "infrastructure." Believe it.

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Meeting C++ 2012: European C++ users group meeting

By Blog Staff | Nov 8, 2012 01:21 PM | Tags: None

C++ continues to heat up with new conferences! Europeans now have something similar to C++ Now (formerly BoostCon), one organized and hosted by Europeans, but open to anyone:

Meeting C++ 2012

Nov 9-10, 2012, Düsseldorf/Neuss, Germany

Meeting C++ is being held with the collaboration of C++ Users Groups from Dusseldorf, Berlin, and Belgium. The inaugural conference already has over 175 attendees registered, and a rich talk list of current C+ topics. WG21's own Michael Wong will give a keynote on Good C++ Coding Style.

Reminder: Bjarne Stroustrup live tomorrow in Austin, TX

By Blog Staff | Sep 18, 2012 10:45 AM | Tags: None

Reminder: Bjarne Stroustrup is appearing live tomorrow in Austin, TX.

C++11 Style: A Touch of Class (Bjarne Stroustrup)

September 19, Austin, TX, USA

What principles, techniques, and idioms can we exploit to make it easier to produce quality code? This presentation reflects my thoughts on what “Modern C++” should mean in the 2010s: a language for programming based on light-weight abstraction with a direct and efficient mapping to hardware, suitable for infrastructure code. I will make an argument for type-rich interfaces, compact data structures, integrated resource management and error handling, and highly-structured algorithmic code. I will illustrate my ideas and motivate my guidelines with a few idiomatic code examples. I will use C++11 freely. Examples include auto, general constant expressions, uniform initialization, type aliases, type safe threading, and user-defined literals. C++ features are only just starting to appear in production compilers, so some of my suggestions have the nature of conjecture. However, developing a “modern style” is essential if we don’t want to maintain newly-written 1970s and 1980s style code in 2020.

Free two-day event: Silicon Valley codecamp_12 for C++11

By Blog Staff | Sep 14, 2012 04:33 PM | Tags: None

The page's own intro says it all:

C++ is Hot!

Mobile and cloud technologies are re-energizing interest in the uncompromising performance that C++ delivers and the new ISO/ANSI standard (C++11) introduces features that allow programmers to achieve that performance with ever greater expressiveness.

Join us as we discuss how to get the most out of Classic C++ and discover the new features of C++11 that are being delivered now by the latest compilers.

Sessions in this track are being given by award winning presenters. We will go beyond Procedural and Object-Oriented Paradigms to explore Generic Programming and Logic Paradigms. We will teach you how to write code in both Classic C++ and C++11 that you can be confident is performant, maintainable, and 100% robust in the face of exceptions. We will cover new C++11 features, including the new standard for threading and what Scott Meyer’s calls “the marquee feature of C++11,” move semantics. We will also introduce you to some powerful new tool sets, one from Microsoft and the other Open Source (Clang), for use with both Classic C++ and C++11.

C++11 Style: A Touch of Class -- Bjarne Stroustrup

By Blog Staff | Aug 12, 2012 09:39 AM | Tags: None

Bjarne Stroustrup will be appearing live next month to deliver his popular talk on what "Modern C++" should mean in the 2010s.

C++11 Style: A Touch of Class
Bjarne Stroustrup

Date: September 19, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Austin, TX, USA 

We know how to write bad code: Litter our programs with casts, macros, pointers, naked new and deletes, and complicated control structures. Alternatively (or in addition), obscure every design decision in a mess of deeply nested abstractions using the latest object-oriented programming and generic programming tricks. For good measure, complicate our algorithms with interesting special cases. Such code is incomprehensible, unmaintainable, usually inefficient, and not uncommon.

But how do we write good code? What principles, techniques, and idioms can we exploit to make it easier to produce quality code? I will make an argument for type-rich interfaces, compact data structures, integrated resource management and error handling, and highly-structured algorithmic code. I will illustrate my ideas and motivate my guidelines with a few idiomatic code examples.

I will use C++11 freely. Examples include auto, general constant expressions, uniform initialization, type aliases, type safe threading, and user-defined literals. C++ features are only just starting to appear in production compilers, so some of my suggestions have the nature of conjecture. However, developing a “modern style” is essential if we don’t want to maintain newly-written 1970s and 1980s style code in 2020.

This presentation reflects my thoughts on what “Modern C++” should mean in the 2010s: a language for programming based on light-weight abstraction with a direct and efficient mapping to hardware, suitable for infrastructure code.