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CppCast Episode 49: Parallel Computing Strategies with Dori Exterman

By robwirving | Mar 18, 2016 07:38 AM | Tags: None

Episode 49 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Dori Exterman to discuss parallel computing strategies and Incredibuild.

CppCast Episode 49: Parallel Computing Strategies with Dori Exterman

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

An expert software developer and product strategist, Dori Exterman has 20 years of experience in the software development industry. As Chief Technical Officer of IncrediBuild, he directs the company's product strategy and is responsible for product vision, implementation, and technical partnerships. Before joining IncrediBuild, Dori held a variety of technical and product development roles at software companies, with a focus on architecture, performance and advanced technologies. He is an expert and frequent speaker on technological advancement in development tools specializing in Embarcadero (formerly Borland) environments, and manages the Israeli development forum for these tools.

Trip report: C++ standards meeting in Jacksonville, Feb-Mar 2016 -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | Mar 11, 2016 04:35 PM | Tags: None

A comprehensive trip report from the just-concluded ISO C++ meeting:

Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting

by Herb Sutter

From the article:

On March 5, the ISO C++ committee completed its winter meeting in Jacksonville, FL, USA. We had record-tying attendance, with over 110 experts officially representing eight national bodies. As usual, we met for six days Monday through Saturday, and around the clock from 8:30am till 10pm most days, after which many people still went back to hang out in the lobby or their rooms to update papers. — The hotel had a baby grand piano outside the main meeting room lobby, and so late at night you could often walk by and find one of several committee members playing a tune, while as usual people collaborated on their proposals, perched on couches and tables clustered around glowing rectangles, incanting standardese to the soft strains of Russian folk ballads and arena rock.

Here’s a summary of what happened, with some details about the current ISO C++ process so you can see just how the work is progressing and getting released. I’ve tried to add some links to the relevant feature design papers, or to the papers that summarize what was done which in turn usually carry more links to the design papers...

CppCast Episode 48: Clean Code with Arne Mertz

By robwirving | Mar 11, 2016 10:56 AM | Tags: None

Episode 48 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Arne Mertz to discuss Clean Coding techniques.

CppCast Episode 48: Clean Code with Arne Mertz

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Arne is a Software Engineer at Zühlke Engineering, a blogger and a clean code enthusiast. He has been maintaining and developing large financial C++ applications for several years. Arne has a diploma in physics and has written some scientific code for his degree courses in Fortran77 and C++ before he started his programming career. Currently he is broadening his view on the software development world by doing test automation, integration, requirements engineering and tooling for a large Java/JavaScript web application. To keep in touch with C++ he continues to write about it on his blog, reads other blogs and watches videos of conference talks.

In his free time he sings in a choir together with his wife and enjoys playing video games. He likes to travel a lot, especially tall ship sailing.

Building and Using Themis in PNaCl

By MaryCossacklabs | Mar 9, 2016 11:18 AM | Tags: None

Cossaclabs offers via their Themis framework to run C++ code inside browsers on x86 and now on ARM platforms.

Building and Using Themis in PNaCl

by cossacklabs

From the article:

Native Client (NaCl) allows browser applications to launch a native low-level code in an isolated environment. Thanks to this, some code, performance code parts can be rewritten in C or C++ easily. Until recent time, NaCl could work on x86-compatible systems only, yet supporting ARM platform becomes very important, because a huge variety of devices (especially the newest Chrome OS laptops), are built on ARM architecture.

All you need to compile the code for ARM is located in the latest Native Client SDK. However, using NaCl forces developers to include support for all used architectures. This is achieved by building NaCl separately for all the architectures supported. Then the browser chooses the correct object to launch, basing on the architecture information.

Despite the fact that ARM architecture support in NaCl is rapidly improving, we should note that while Samsung Chromebooks remain being a primary objective for NaCl developers, it’s too early to talk about adequate ARM architecture support.