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CppCast Episode 94: Safe Numerics with Robert Ramey

By robwirving | Mar 24, 2017 07:57 AM | Tags: None

Episode 94 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Robert Ramey to discuss his Safe Numerics library and the process of submitting libraries to both Boost and the C++ Standards Committee.

CppCast Episode 94: Safe Numerics with Robert Ramey

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Robert Ramey is a freelance C++ programmer for around 20 years. He has worked on a variety of applications including desktop retail applications, embedded systems on tiny micro controllers and combinations of these. For the last 10 of those years he has been active in the Boost Organization and

  • Author and Maintainer of the Boost Serialization library
  • Instigator of the Boost Library Incubator (www.blincubator.com)
  • Given talks on Boost/C++ related topics at C++Now and CPPCon
  • Written articles in print periodicals such as Software Development and ACCU Overload

Of late his interest has become more focused on practical approaches to improving program correctness. This has motivated recent talks at CPP Con ( boost units library, C++ and abstract algebra) and most recently the Safe Numerics library - which has very recently been accepted as an official Boost Library.

CppCast Episode 93: C++ Game Development at Blizzard with Ben Deane

By robwirving | Mar 17, 2017 08:55 AM | Tags: None

Episode 93 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Blizzard Entertainment to talk about C++ game development and more.

CppCast Episode 93: C++ Game Development at Blizzard with Ben Deane

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Ben started in the games industry in the UK in 1995, when he got hired at Bullfrog straight after graduating from university. While there he worked on several games there like Syndicate Wars and Dungeon Keeper. By the late 1990s he had stopped using C and was allowed to use C++ at work. In 2001 he moved to Kuju Entertainment and did a couple of games on XBox and PS2, then in 2003 he was hired by EA again and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on the Medal of Honor series. He's always been a network game programmer, and in 2008 after a project cancellation at EA, he joined Blizzard as a lead engineer on Battle.net, working on technology for all of Blizzard's games. Today he's a principal engineer at Blizzard and the technical lead on the Battle.net desktop application. He's also a functional programming hobbyist who tries to use what he learns in Haskell to write better C++, and in recent years he has given several C++ conference talks at C++Now and CppCon.

CppChat[14] SFINAW

By Jon Kalb | Mar 11, 2017 04:56 PM | Tags: visual studio 2017 odin holmes microsoft meeting c++ live kona jonathan müller jon kalb implicit fall through foonathan deduction guides cppchat cppcast coroutines c++now c++17 bryce adelstein lelbach

CppChat:

CppChat[14]: SFINAW

with Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, Jonathan Müller (foonathan), Odin Holms, and Jon Kalb

From the chat:

Bryce, Jonathan, Odin, and Jon discuss the Kona meeting, Visual Studio 2017, CppCast, Meeting C++ Live, and more.

C++::London talk: A polymorphic value-type for C++

By jbcoe | Mar 9, 2017 12:52 PM | Tags: None

On 25th January at CodeNode, London, Jonathan Coe presented polymorphic_value<T> to the C++::London meetup group.

The class template polymorphic_value is proposed for addition to the C++ Standard Library. The class template, polymorphic_value, confers value-like semantics on a free-store allocated object. A polymorphic_value<T> may hold an object of a class publicly derived from T, and copying the polymorphic_value will copy the object of the derived type.

A polymorphic value-type for C++ (Video)

About the presenter:

Jonathan is a mathematical developer using modern C++ and Python. He has worked in academia and the financial and energy industries. He's been a participant in the C++ standards committee since 2014.

CppCast Episode 92: Visual Studio 2017 for C++ Developers with Daniel Moth

By robwirving | Mar 7, 2017 04:32 PM | Tags: None

Episode 92 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Moth from Microsoft to talk about all of the new C++ features in today's release of Visual Studio 2017.

CppCast Episode 92: Visual Studio 2017 for C++ Developers with Daniel Moth

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Daniel Moth joined Microsoft in the UK in 2006, before transitioning to Redmond in 2008 to work as a Program Manager on Visual Studio, which is where he is still working today. Before Microsoft he worked as a software developer in the industry for almost a decade, most of that time building mobile apps.

CppCast Episode 91: emBO++ with Odin Holmes

By robwirving | Mar 3, 2017 09:07 AM | Tags: None

Episode 91 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Odin Holmes to talk about the recent Embedded C++ development conference emBO++.

CppCast Episode 91: emBO++ with Odin Holmes

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner:

About the interviewee:

Odin Holmes has been programming bare metal embedded systems for 15+ years and as any honest nerd admits most of that time was spent debugging his stupid mistakes. With the advent of the 100x speed up of template metaprogramming provided by C++11 his current mission began: teach the compiler to find his stupid mistakes at compile time so he has more free time for even more template metaprogramming. Odin Holmes is the author of the Kvasir.io library, a DSL which wraps bare metal special function register interactions allowing full static checking and a considerable efficiency gain over common practice. He is also active in building and refining the tools need for this task such as the brigand MPL library, a replacement candidate for boost.parameter and a better public API for boost.MSM-lite.

CppChat[12]: + As a Service

By Jon Kalb | Feb 25, 2017 01:21 PM | Tags: slack cpplang safe numerics jon kalb jackie kay functional programming embo++ embedded programming embedded c++ cppchat community c++now boost

CppChat:

CppChat[12]: + As a Service

with Jackie Kay, Robert Ramey, and Jon Kalb

From the chat:

Jackie, Robert, and Jon discuss Jackie's talk at last week's emBO++ and the upcoming Boost review of Robert's Safe Numerics library. We also discuss Kona, Slack, C++Now, and functional programming C++.

CppCast Episode 90: Trompeloeil Mocking Framework

By robwirving | Feb 24, 2017 08:56 AM | Tags: None

Episode 90 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Björn Fahller to talk about the trompeloeil Mocking Framework for Modern C++ Unit Testing.

CppCast Episode 90: Trompeloeil Mocking Framework

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Björn Fahller is a senior developer at Net Insight, and has been developing software for a living since 1994, mostly embedded programming for communications devices. Björn learned C++ from usenet and the ARM (Annotated Reference Manual) which was the standard before there was a standard. On a hobby basis, Björn likes to find silly solutions to non-problems and to explore effects of programming constructs.

Outside of programming, Björn is a member of a small group thet brews beer together, and is also a member of a volunteer organization of aviators who help with things like search and rescue operations, forest fire monitoring, and storm damage assessment.