March 11-13, Online
March 16-18, Madrid, Spain
March 23-28, Croydon, London, UK
March 30, Kortrijk, Belgium
May 4-8, Aspen, CO, USA
May 4-8, Toronto, Canada
C++ Meetup with Bjarne Stroustrup
May 9, Florence, Italy
June 8 to 13, Brno, Czechia
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September 12-18, Aurora, CO, USA
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 16-21, Búzios, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
By Meeting C++ | Sep 16, 2013 09:08 AM | Tags: intermediate experimental c++14 advanced
The second part of my series about the papers for Chicago:
Papers for Chicago: Core, Concepts and Evolution
by Jens Weller
From the article:
This time I cover core, concepts, evolution and filesystem. I decided to keep the format with grouping the papers by domain, it makes it easier to have an overview.
By Meeting C++ | Sep 14, 2013 04:08 AM | Tags: standardization performance intermediate experimental efficiency concurrency c++14 basics advanced
The start of my series about the papers for the upcoming Chicago meeting, starting with C for Concurrency:
C++ Papers for Chicago: Part 1 -- Concurrency
by Jens Weller
From the article:
As I did write a series about the papers for Bristol, this is the start of the series for Chicago, as at the end of this month the C++ committee will meet again for standardization. I try to...
By Blog Staff | Sep 12, 2013 08:26 AM | Tags: None
The videos from last week's GoingNative 2013 are now posted and available for on-demand viewing on Channel 9. Over 20 hours of live presentations cover everything from the latest in the language and the standard library, to C++'s evolution and momentum across the industry, to style guidance and the latest in C++11/14 features, to the optimizer and code generation for modern processors like Haswell, to experience in specific domains and platforms, and more.
GN'13 was a huge success thanks to Channel 9 and all the speakers, including headliner Bjarne Stroustrup and esteemed speakers Sean Parent, Andrei Alexandrescu, Stephan T. Lavavej, Jim Radigan, Herb Sutter, Scott Meyers, Michael Wong, Chandler Carruth, Ales Holecek, Elliot Omiya, Deon Brewis, Niklas Gustafsson, Eric Brumer, and Garrett Serack. Thanks to everyone who came to present and participate in this year's event.
The GN folks and others are working hard on next year. Stay tuned for more information in the months ahead. In the meantime, enjoy this material and be sure to share the ones you find most interesting and useful with your friends and colleagues.
By Blog Staff | Sep 12, 2013 08:09 AM | Tags: None
Do you know what value-initialization means, and why it's simpler in C++11?
Value-initialization with C++
by Andrzej Krzemieński
From the article:
Some time ago, I showed how
boost::value_initializedcan be used to value-initialize objects in generic components in C++03. In C++11 it is practically not necessary. C++11 gives you a way to force value-initialization of your objects in any possible initialization context.Are you familiar with term “value initialization”? It is sometimes confused with “default-initialization”...
By Eric Niebler | Sep 6, 2013 09:27 AM | Tags: None
Have you been waiting to use clang until it works on Windows? Your wait is over. The inimitable Chandler Carruth from Google announced an honest-to-god Windows installer for the LLVM toolchain that integrates into Visual Studio, and links with the native C++ runtime.
A Path Forward for an LLVM Toolchain on Windows
by Chandler Carruth
[...] we’ve been driving many of the efforts around compatibility with Visual Studio and native Windows C++ code in Clang and LLD (the LLVM linker). Today, as announced at my GoingNative 2013 talk, we are able to build a trivial C++ application that in turn links against native C++ libraries and uses them in real, interesting ways. This is a huge milestone for the project, and something we’re really excited to be talking more about.
By matt | Sep 5, 2013 12:23 PM | Tags: graphics creative coding cinder
The first piece of code acquired by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- "Planetary", written in C++.
Planetary: collecting and preserving code as a living object
Posted by Sebastian Chan & Aaron Cope on Monday August 26, 2013
From the article:
Cooper-Hewitt has just acquired its first piece of code. Although the collection has objects that are the end result of algorithmic processes, notably Patrick Jouin's 3D printed chair, Solid C2, this is the first time that code, itself, has been collected.
Almost all contemporary design practice involves digital processes -- from the ubiquitous Adobe design software to CAD packages used by product designers and architects, to the simple day-to-day office management and accounting software -- it would be difficult to find a designer who lives entirely 'off the grid.’ Despite this, design museums have been slow to start to add software to their permanent collections.
Some of this reticence to collect digital objects stems from deep uncertainties as to how to preserve and present such objects to future visitors and future scholars. But for Cooper-Hewitt these uncertainties have been a strong driver to experiment.
So, here we have Planetary.
Planetary is an iPad application written in C++ using the Cinder framework. Planetary offers an alternative music player application for the iPad that visualizes your music collection as a series of celestial bodies. Songs are moons, albums are planets, artists are suns—and the orbits of each are determined by the length of albums and tracks. Their brightness represents their frequency of playback.
By matt | Sep 3, 2013 10:12 AM | Tags: intermediate bool
Tales of C++, Episode 6:
Boollocks
by K-Ballo
From the article:
In the beginning there was no
bool. And C++ said "let there bebool", and there wasbool...The Boolean data type is an integral type with only two values:
trueandfalse, intended to represent the truth values of logic and Boolean algebra. With only two values, what can possibly go wrong?
By Blog Staff | Sep 3, 2013 07:09 AM | Tags: None
Continuing Koenig's series on move semantics:
Addresses and Nodes: Two Ways To Get Around
by Andrew Koenig
From the article:
Programs that avoid address arithmetic can also avoid moving data. The reason is that it is only arithmetic that really cares about where in memory an object is; in other circumstances, having a pointer to that memory is enough.
By Blog Staff | Sep 1, 2013 03:23 PM | Tags: None
The GoingNative 2013 conference starts Wednesday and is just about sold out. A few seats remain, so register now (or get on the waitlist in case there's a last-minute cancellation you can snag).
It's decidedly desirable to be physically in the room to get the full experience, and hundreds of people from over 10 countries are already on their way. But if you can't come in person to Redmond, WA, USA for this week's C++ fest, you'll be glad to know the talks will be livestreamed as well on the Channel 9 homepage. The streaming is compatible with all major platforms. For those of you around the world, please note that the talk times are in North American Pacific Daylight Time.
Talks include the following, including both full-length talks and a number of 20- and 30-minute "nuggets."
By Meeting C++ | Sep 1, 2013 12:57 PM | Tags: community basics advanced
I've created a short overview over the C++ Conferences this Fall:
- Going Native (Seattle, 4.th-6.9) SOLD OUT
- International Workshop on OpenMP (Canberra (AU), 16-18.9)
- (not a conference, but...) Fall ISO C++ meeting (Chicago, 23-28.9)
- QtDevDays Europe (Berlin, 7th - 9.10)
- QtDevDays US (San Francisco, 6th-8.11)
- Meeting C++ 2013 (Düsseldorf, 8th-9.11)
- C++ and Beyond (Snoqualmie Falls (WA/US), 9th-12.12) SOLD OUT
by Jens Weller