CppCast Episode 149: CppChat with Phil Nash

By robwirving | May 11, 2018 07:24 PM | Tags: None

Episode 149 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash to discuss the rebooted CppChat show, test driven development, a conference announcement and much more.

CppCast Episode 149: CppChat with Phil Nash

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Phil has spent the last year and a half doing things that might sound interesting for the next time he’s interviewed on CppCast. He might have overdone it. Aside from that he’s most commonly known as the original author of the test framework, Catch2. He’s been in or around C++ since the early 90s, but started coding in 1981 on a ZX-81 that he borrowed for six months. He’s worked in many domains, including finance and mobile and is now developer advocate for C++ and Swift tools at JetBrains.

CopperSpice: Lambdas in C++

By Ansel Sermersheim | May 7, 2018 01:12 PM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

Lambdas in C++

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

In this video, we cover an introduction to C++ lambdas, how they differ from function pointers and functors, and why the term functor should really be avoided. We also give a brief overview of how lambdas have been extended since they were introduced in C++11.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

CppCast Episode 148: C++ Simplicity with Kate Gregory

By robwirving | May 4, 2018 09:36 AM | Tags: None

Episode 148 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory to discuss her recent talk at ACCU, Pluralsight courses and the new include C++ community.

CppCast Episode 148: C++ Simplicity with Kate Gregory

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She'll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ these days is not the C++ you remember.

Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well as writing code every week. She has spoken all over the world, written over a dozen books, and helped thousands of developers to be better at what they do. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual C++ MVP, an Imagine Cup judge and mentor, and an active contributor to StackOverflow and other StackExchange sites. She develops courses for Pluralsight, primarily on C++ and Visual Studio. Since 2014 she was Open Content Chair for CppCon, the largest C++ conference ever held, where she also delivered sessions.

C++ Weekly Episode 113: Will It C++? Atari Touch Me From 1978—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | Apr 30, 2018 11:08 AM | Tags: embedded basics

Episode 113 of C++ Weekly.

Will It C++? Atari Touch Me From 1978

by Jason Turner

About the show:

In this episode of C++ Weekly Jason discusses the architecture of the handheld Atari game, the "Touch Me" from 1978. Would it be possible to compile a modern C++ program for this 40 year old hardware?

CppCast Episode 147: C++ Patterns with Kevlin Henney

By robwirving | Apr 28, 2018 09:18 AM | Tags: None

Episode 147 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Kevlin Henney to discuss C++ Patterns and things every programmer should know.

CppCast Episode 147: C++ Patterns with Kevlin Henney

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites, including C++ Report and C/C++ Users Journal, and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"), including the the BSI C++ panel and the ISO C++ standards committee. He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and the forthcoming 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. He lives in Bristol and online.

CopperSpice: C++ Tapas

By Ansel Sermersheim | Apr 23, 2018 05:33 AM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

C++ Tapas

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

This video discusses an assortment of related topics including typedefs, type aliases, namespaces, and forward declarations. We talk about how all these fundamental pieces of C++ program structure interact and how their usage and C++ idioms have changed over time.

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CppCast Episode 146: CppDock and Nbdl with Jason Rice

By robwirving | Apr 20, 2018 08:24 AM | Tags: None

Episode 146 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Jason Rice to discuss C++ Web Application Development and his libraries CppDock and nbdl.

CppCast Episode 146: CppDock and Nbdl with Jason Rice

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Jason Rice is a web applications programmer with an appetite for C++ metaprogramming having made small contributions to Boost.Hana. He is actively working on the library Nbdl, waiting for the day when C++ takes over the web.

CppCast Episode 145: Blogging and Text Processing with Bartłomiej Filipek

By robwirving | Apr 13, 2018 05:15 PM | Tags: None

Episode 145 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Bartłomiej Filipek to discuss blogging, Simplifying C++ Code with C++17, and the work he's doing at Xara.

CppCast Episode 145: Blogging and Text Processing with Bartłomiej Filipek

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Bartłomiej Filipek (Bartek as a shorter version) is a C++ software developer at Xara where he works mostly on text features for advanced document editors. He works remotely from Cracow/Poland. Apart from graphics applications, Bartek also has experience with game development, large-scale systems for aviation, writing graphics drivers and even biofeedback. For seven years Bartek has been regularly blogging. In the early days the topic revolved around graphics programming, and now he focuses on Core C++. In his spare time, he loves assembling trains and Lego with his little son. And he's a collector of large Lego Star Wars models.

CopperSpice: Type Traits & Documentation

By Ansel Sermersheim | Apr 10, 2018 10:12 PM | Tags: tools

New videos on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

Type Traits

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

This video covers Type Traits, what they are, and when you might want to use them. We also contrast Type Traits with Policy Classes, and show how the distinction can be very difficult to discern.

Using Doxypress

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

This video is an overview of the DoxyPress C++ documentation generator. We also discuss the DoxyPressApp GUI frontend, and explain the structure and features of DoxyPress.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

GoingNative 65: ISO C++ @ Jacksonville Debriefing--Augustin Popa

By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 3, 2018 02:09 PM | Tags: experimental

Another is out!

GoingNative 65: ISO C++ @ Jacksonville Debriefing

by Augustin Popa

From the video:

We are back quickly after our last episode to go over the latest news from the ISO C++ Standards Committee meeting in Jacksonville, Florida! C++20 planning is well on its way now as Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Gor Nishanov about new progress with C++ Modules, Coroutines, and more!

Some coroutine-related papers accepted for a future version of the C++ standard (provides more context on the code shared in the video):

• Symmetric control transfer
• Parameter preview