October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Blog Staff | Nov 4, 2014 09:01 AM | Tags: None
Some welcome news from Boost.org...
Boost 1.57.0 has been released
These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.
This release contains one new library and numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries.
Read the full announcement for all the details, and for download links.
By Blog Staff | Nov 3, 2014 10:12 AM | Tags: None
A nice tutorial on a feature that leads to convenient and safe calling code:
Perfect forwarding and universal references in C++
by Eli Bendersky
From the article:
One of the new features in C++11 aimed at increased code efficiency is the
emplacefamily of methods in containers.std::vector, for example, has anemplace_backmethod to parallelpush_back, andemplaceto parallelinsert.Here's a short demonstration of the benefits these new methods bring: ...
By Hartmut Kaiser | Nov 2, 2014 02:07 PM | Tags: performance parallelism distributed computing concurrency c++14 c++11
The STE||AR Group has released V0.9.9 of HPX -- A general purpose parallel C++ runtime system for applications of any scale.
HPX V0.9.9 Released
The newest version of HPX (V0.9.9) is now available for download! Please see here for the release notes.
HPX now exposes an API fully conforming to the concurrency related parts of the C++11 and C++14 standards, extended and applied to distributed computing.
From the announcement:
By Meeting C++ | Nov 2, 2014 06:29 AM | Tags: user groups community
The monthly listing of the upcoming C++ User Group meetings brings a new record in November: 28 User Groups are meeting so far:
C++ User Group meetings in November
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Meetings in November4.11 C++ UG OC Qt - Qt Developer Days 2014 San Francisco
4.11 C++ UG Warsaw - "Co nowego w C++14"
5.11 C++ UG Saint Louis - First official meeting for our group
5.11 C++ UG Austin - Austin C/C++ Boost Double Feature
6.11 C++ UG Malmö/c++ folk - LLVM/Clang on Windows
8.11 C++ UG C++ Italy - Italian C++ Community Meetup Bologna
8.11 C++ UG Pune, India - C++11 Move Semantics and STL optimizations + A look at LibreOffic
12.11 C++ UG Utah - Efficient Parsing with Boost.Spirit
12.11 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Presentation and Q&A
13.11 C++ UG NRW/Aachen - C++ User Gruppe (November)
13.11 C++ UG Dresden - TDD
13.11 C++ UG New York - Experience with C++11 in ArangoDB
17.11 C++ UG Juce - JUCE Meetup Helsinki
17.11 C++ UG Denver - Denver Tech Center C++ Developers
17.11 C++ UG Austin - North Austin Monthly C/C++ Pub Social
18.11 C++ UG Chicago - Highlights of the Standards Committee Meeting
19.11 C++ UG Düsseldorf - Treffen der C++ User Gruppe NRW
19.11 C++ UG Santa Barbara - Brett Hall will give a talk on Transactional Memory and C++
19.11 C++ UG Seattle/NorthWest - Debugging, Profiling, and Diagnostics for C++ in Visual Studio vNext
19.11 C++ UG Hamburg - C++14
20.11 C++ UG Juce - JUCE Meetup Paris
20.11 C++ UG Bristol - Save the date
25.11 C++ UG Montpellier - Meetup C++ novembre
26.11 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Workshop and Discussion Group
26.11 C++ UG London - monthly MeetUp
27.11 C++ UG Rhein-Neckar - C++ Usergroup Meeting
28.11 C++ UG Istanbul - Debugging with GDB
29.11 C++ UG Russia - Novosibirsk Meeting
By Meeting C++ | Nov 1, 2014 09:24 AM | Tags: intermediate experimental c++17 advanced
The second part of my series on the C++ Proposals for the next Committee meeting in Urbana:
Looking for C++17 - Urbana Proposals for Core, Modules, Networking, Reflection and UB
by Jens Weller
From the Article:
The second part of my series about the proposals for Urbana, where the next C++ committee meeting will be held. The papers grand us a first view on a distant future - C++17...
By Meeting C++ | Oct 31, 2014 03:57 AM | Tags: performance intermediate efficiency c++14 c++11 boost advanced
One of the issues I was thinking about since C++Now: move and move-destruction
C++ and Zombies: a moving question
by Jens Weller
From the article:
This has been on my things to think about since C++Now. At C++Now, I realized, that we've might got zombies in the C++ standard. And that there are two fractions, one of them stating, that it is ok to have well defined zombies, while some people think that you'd better kill them.
By Blog Staff | Oct 31, 2014 01:42 AM | Tags: basics
Quick A: for( char c : str ).
Recently on StackOverflow:
Traversing a string in C++
I am looking for something similar to traversing a string in Python:
i.e.
for char in str: do somethingHow can I do this in C++?
By Blog Staff | Oct 30, 2014 10:28 AM | Tags: None
A few days ago in Norway, well-known C++ expert Olve Maudal presented the following slides. We hope you enjoy them too.
Introduction to Modern C++ (PDF)
by Olve Maudal
From the presentation:
C++ has evolved a lot since it was first introduced as "C with classes" with primitive support for object-oriented programming. In particular during the last 10-15 years the common use of the language has changed "dramatically" and the language itself has evolved accordingly. Modern C++ (C++11/14) is still very suitable for object-oriented programming, but now the language also provides good support for generic programming and functional programming. All of this while C++ is still a low-level language that can be used to create programs that compete with programs written in assembler both in terms of speed and size.
We start with a brief history of C++ before focusing on new features in C++11/14 and a demonstration of some typical modern programming techniques.
By Blog Staff | Oct 30, 2014 10:12 AM | Tags: None
Today in Infoworld, perhaps the first article about C++17:
Stroustrup highlights next C++ goals: Parallelism, concurrency
Language founder Bjarne Stroustrup gives early indicators of what to expect in C++17
by Paul Krill
Note: C++14 is just being published and C++17 may sound far away. But it's not -- some compilers, such as Clang 3.5 and Visual C++ "14" CTP, already go beyond C++14 and support draft-C++17 features like the new for(e:v) syntax.
From the article:
... Other major proposals for C++17 include faster compilation (championed mostly by Apple, Google, and Microsoft), contracts, and better type-checking. A meeting about the future of C++ is to be held by the standards committee at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champa[ign], next week, Stroustrup says.
By Jon Kalb | Oct 29, 2014 02:34 AM | Tags: None
The second edition of Boris Schäling's "The Boost C++ Libraries" is now available in print form and (free) online. The print edition is available at Amazon and the online version is here.
This edition covers 72 Boost libraries, almost twice as many as the previous edition and uses 430 complete, but as short as possible code examples.
For Boost libraries that were incorporated into the C++11 standard library, differences between Boost and the standard library are highlighted.
The goal of this book is to increase your efficiency as a C++ developer and to simplify software development with C++. The Boost libraries introduced in this book will help you write less code with fewer bugs and finish projects faster. Your code will be more concise and self-explanatory and more easily adapted when requirements change.