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November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Blog Staff | Nov 7, 2014 02:12 AM | Tags: None
In case you missed it, here's a nice little Friday nugget:
FUNGENOOP Programming
by Tony DaSilva
From the article:
In his recent talks on C++, Bjarne Stroustrup always sets aside a couple of minutes to go off on a mini-rant against "paradigm shifts"...
By Blog Staff | Nov 6, 2014 10:00 AM | Tags: None
Hot off the presses today, at 320 pages:
From Mathematics to Generic Programming
By Alexander A. Stepanov, Daniel E. Rose
From the book description:
In this substantive yet accessible book, pioneering software designer Alexander Stepanov and his colleague Daniel Rose illuminate the principles of generic programming and the mathematical concept of abstraction on which it is based, helping you write code that is both simpler and more powerful.
If you’re a reasonably proficient programmer who can think logically, you have all the background you’ll need. Stepanov and Rose introduce the relevant abstract algebra and number theory with exceptional clarity. They carefully explain the problems mathematicians first needed to solve, and then show how these mathematical solutions translate to generic programming and the creation of more effective and elegant code. To demonstrate the crucial role these mathematical principles play in many modern applications, the authors show how to use these results and generalized algorithms to implement a real-world public-key cryptosystem.
As you read this book, you’ll master the thought processes necessary for effective programming and learn how to generalize narrowly conceived algorithms to widen their usefulness without losing efficiency. You’ll also gain deep insight into the value of mathematics to programming–insight that will prove invaluable no matter what programming languages and paradigms you use.
You will learn about
- How to generalize a four thousand-year-old algorithm, demonstrating indispensable lessons about clarity and efficiency
- Ancient paradoxes, beautiful theorems, and the productive tension between continuous and discrete
- A simple algorithm for finding greatest common divisor (GCD) and modern abstractions that build on it
- Powerful mathematical approaches to abstraction
- How abstract algebra provides the idea at the heart of generic programming
- Axioms, proofs, theories, and models: using mathematical techniques to organize knowledge about your algorithms and data structures
- Surprising subtleties of simple programming tasks and what you can learn from them
- How practical implementations can exploit theoretical knowledge
By Blog Staff | Nov 6, 2014 01:23 AM | Tags: None
Fresh from Facebook's coding blog:
Introducing Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP framework
by Daniel Sommermann and Alan Frindell
From the announcement:
We are excited to announce the release of Proxygen, a collection of C++ HTTP libraries, including an easy-to-use HTTP server. In addition to HTTP/1.1, Proxygen (rhymes with "oxygen") supports SPDY/3 and SPDY/3.1. We are also iterating and developing support for HTTP/2. ...
Proxygen began as a project to write a customizable, high-performance HTTP(S) reverse-proxy load balancer nearly four years ago. We initially planned for Proxygen to be a software library for generating proxies, hence the name. But Proxygen has evolved considerably since the early days of the project. While there were a variety of software stacks that provided similar functionality to Proxygen at the time (Apache, nginx, HAProxy, Varnish, etc), we opted go in a different direction...
By Blog Staff | Nov 4, 2014 09:06 AM | Tags: None
Just announced:
spdlog: Super fast C++ logging library [GitHub]
The description is really "in a nut":
Very fast, header only, C++ logging library.
Install: Just copy the files to your build tree and use a C++11 compiler
Features:
- Very fast -- performance is the primary goal (see becnhmarks below)
- Headers only
- No dependencies
- Cross platform - Linux / Windows on 32/64 bits
- Mult/Single threaded loggers
- Rotating log files
- Daily log files
- Console logging
- Optional async logging
- Logging levels
- Custom formatting with user defined patterns
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.