CppCast Episode 192: Reverse Engineering C++ with Gal Zaban

By robwirving | Mar 29, 2019 11:35 AM | Tags: None

Episode 192 of CppCast the first podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Gal Zaban to talk about Reverse Engineering C++.

CppCast Episode 192: Reverse Engineering C++ with Gal Zaban

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Gal is currently working as a Security Researcher. Her passion is Reverse Engineering with a particular interest in C++ code. In her spare time, when not delving into low-level research, she designs and sews her own clothes and loves to play the Clarinet.

CopperSpice: GPU, Pipeline, and the Vector Graphics API

By Ansel Sermersheim | Mar 28, 2019 10:37 PM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

GPU, Pipeline, and the Vector Graphics API

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

In this video, we continue our exploration of modern graphics technoloy. We look at the differences between current vector drawing API vendors, and explore the idea of fixed versus programmable rendering pipelines. We also explain the history of the most modern graphics API currently avaliable, Vulkan.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

C++Now 2019 Schedule Announcement

By foonathan | Mar 28, 2019 10:36 PM | Tags: None

C++Now 2019 will be held in Aspen, Colorado, from May 5-10. Registration is still open!

Schedule Announced: Over 50 Presentations in 3 Tracks

From the announcement:

This year we have 3 tracks with over 50 C++-focused presentations including keynotes, lightning talks, panels, and the “Library in a Week” hands-on workshop.

If you are still on the fence about whether to join us, now is a good time to make up your mind. Check out the list of session tags, the conference schedule, and the attendee video. The venue has a hard attendee limit and if the conference sells out (as it tends to do), your remaining option is to wait until 2020.

doctest -- The Fastest C++ Testing Framework -- version 2.3 released! -- Viktor Kirilov

By onqtam | Mar 28, 2019 07:39 AM | Tags: None

doctest brings the ability of compiled languages such as D, Rust and Nim to write tests right next to the production code to C++.

doctest - "The Fastest C++ Testing Framework" - version 2.3 released

by Viktor Kirilov

From the article:

Version 2.3 brings an extensible reporter system and a few already implemented reporters with the framework - most importantly one for XML - vital for Continuous Integration (CI) workflows. Huge thanks to the Catch2 project for paving the way for single header testing libraries.

C++ Now 2019 Keynote Announcement: Compile Time RegEx by Hana Dusíková

By foonathan | Mar 28, 2019 07:38 AM | Tags: None

C++Now 2019 will be held in Aspen, Colorado, from May 5-10. Registration is still open!

Keynote Announced: Hana Dusíková on Compile Time Regular Expressions

From the announcement:

The theme of this year’s keynotes is Compile-time Magic and the first keynote that we are announcing is Hana Dusíková’s presentation of a library that performs at compile-time, work that is often done at runtime.

Hana’s keynote is entitled Compile Time Regular Expressions with Deterministic Finite Automaton.

Bootstrapping a vcpkg-based cmake project in Visual Studio--Sumant Tambe

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 27, 2019 01:02 PM | Tags: community

You can do it.

Bootstrapping a vcpkg-based cmake project in Visual Studio

by Sumant Tambe

From the article:

After the last week's 2019 Microsoft MVP Summit, I decided to give Microsoft vcpkg a shot. I've a cmake project at work and we target Linux using the Hunter package manager. So vcpkg had been on the back-burner for me...

Turning anything into a fire-and-forget coroutine--Raymond Chen

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 27, 2019 12:59 PM | Tags: community

One more step.

Turning anything into a fire-and-forget coroutine

by Raymond Chen

From the article:

Last time, we wrote a helper function for converting an awaitable into a winrt::fire_and_forget, as well as another helper function that takes a lambda that returns an awaitable, and which invokes the lambmda as a winrt::fire_and_forget...

object_ptr - a safer replacement for raw pointers--Anthony Williams

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 27, 2019 12:56 PM | Tags: community

What do you use?

object_ptr - a safer replacement for raw pointers

by Anthony Williams

From the article:

Yesterday I uploaded my object_ptr<T> implementation to github under the Boost Software License...

Call for papers -- code::dive

By Felix Petriconi | Mar 26, 2019 12:22 PM | Tags: None

code::dive 2019 just started its call for papers until the end of 2019-06-30.

Call for papers

by code::dive

About the conference:

code::dive 2019 is the 6th edition of the code::dive conference, taking place at Cinema New Horizons at Wrocław, Poland, on 20-21 of November. The conference is organized by Nokia Wrocław.

Expressing fire-and-forget coroutines more explicitly, -or- How to turn any coroutine into fire-...

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 26, 2019 10:45 AM | Tags: community

The series continues.

Expressing fire-and-forget coroutines more explicitly, -or- How to turn any coroutine into fire-and-forget

by Raymond Chen

From the article:

Last time, we looked at how to mark a coroutine as fire-and-forget, meaning that the caller does not get any information about when the coroutine completes. This is fine as far as it goes, but it may not be what you want...