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CppCast Episode 97: Vcsn with Akim Demaille

By robwirving | Apr 14, 2017 07:49 AM | Tags: None

Episode 97 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Akim Demaille to discuss VCSN, a platform for automata and rational expressions, and some of the interesting problems he faced while working on the library.

CppCast Episode 97: Vcsn with Akim Demaille

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Akim has been participating in free software for about 20 years, starting with a2ps, an anything to PostScript tool written in C. In order to ensure its portability, he became a major contributor to GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake and GNU Bison.

Akim has been teaching and researching at EPITA, a French CS Graduate School, for eighteen years. He has taught formal languages, logics, OO design, C++ and compiler constructions, which includes the Tiger compiler, an educational project where students implement a compiler in C++. This project, whose assignment is regularly updated, keeps track of the C++ eveolutions, and this year's version uses C++17 features.

Akim's recent research interests are focused on the Vcsn platform, dedicated to automata and rational expressions.

He's recently been recruited by former students of his to be part of the Infinit team at Docker.

CppCast Episode 96: Jewelbots with Sara Chipps

By robwirving | Apr 7, 2017 12:17 PM | Tags: None

Episode 96 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Sara Chipps to discuss Jewelbots, Arduino and getting girls interested in STEM fields.

CppCast Episode 96: Jewelbots with Sara Chipps

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and part of Nodebots since 2012.

She is the CEO of Jewelbots, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware.

She was formerly the CTO of Flat Iron School, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers.

In 2010 she cofounded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software.

CppCast Episode 95: C++17 Kona Update with Patrice Roy

By robwirving | Mar 31, 2017 07:00 AM | Tags: None

Episode 95 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Patrice Roy to discuss the state of C++17 after the recent ISO Standards meeting at Kona.

CppCast Episode 95: C++17 Kona Update with Patrice Roy

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Patrice Roy has been playing with C++, either professionally, for pleasure or (most of the time) both for over 20 years. After a few years doing R&D and working on military flight simulators, he moved on to academics and has been teaching computer science since 1998. Since 2005, he’s been involved more specifically in helping graduate students and professionals from the fields of real-time systems and game programming develop the skills they need to face today’s challenges. The rapid evolution of C++ in recent years has made his job even more enjoyable.

He’s been a participating member in the ISO C++ Standards Committee since late 2014 and has been involved with the ISO Programming Language Vulnerabilities since late 2015. He has five kids, and his wife ensures their house is home to a continuously changing number of cats, dogs and other animals.

C++Chat[16] The Great Template Metaprogramming Library Debate

By Jon Kalb | Mar 29, 2017 11:04 AM | Tags: template metaprogramming spaceship operator robert ramey odin holmes metal meta louis dionne jon kalb herb sutter eric niebler edouard alligand cppchat cppcast chiel douwes brigand boost.hana

CppChat:

CppChat[16]: The Great Template Metaprogramming Library Debate

with Chiel Douwes, Edouard Alligand, Eric Niebler, Joel Falcou, Louis Dionne, Odin Holmes, and Jon Kalb.

From the chat:

This was a special episode focusing on the path forward for Boost, the Standard Committee, and the C++ community in the area of template metaprogramming.

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.