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

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

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

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

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

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.

CppCast Episode 89: Jumping into C++ with Alex Allain

Episode 89 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Allain from Dropbox to talk about Dropbox's Djinni code generator and Alex's book Jumping into C++.

CppCast Episode 89: Jumping into C++ with Alex Allain

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Alex Allain is a Director of Engineering at Dropbox. He was one of the first engineers on the Dropbox Business product before leading Dropbox's Product Platform group, whose initiatives includes the Dropbox Sync Engine, shared mobile C++ and developer tools. Alex has run Cprogramming.com since 1998 and is the author of Jumping into C++, a book for new programmers.