CppCast Episode 81: C++ Game Development at Ubisoft with Nicolas Fleury

By robwirving | Dec 9, 2016 08:15 AM | Tags: None

Episode 81 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Nicolas Fleury, Technical Architect at Ubisoft Montreal, to talk about the development and performance tuning techniques used at Ubisoft on games like Rainbow Six Siege.

CppCast Episode 81: C++ Game Development at Ubisoft with Nicolas Fleury

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Nicolas has 13 years of experience in the video game industry, more years in the software industry in telecoms, in speech recognition and in computer assisted surgery. Technical Architect on Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Siege, he is one of the key Architects behind some collaboration initiatives at Ubisoft and was also Technical Architect on games like Prince of Persia. He presented at CppCon 2014 "C++ in Huge AAA Games".

C++ Weekly Episode 40: Inheriting From Lambdas—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | Dec 6, 2016 03:34 PM | Tags: intermediate c++17 c++11

Episode 40 of C++ Weekly.

Inheriting From Lambdas

by Jason Turner

About the show:

In this episode Jason discusses how (and why) you can inherit from a lambda function along with possible use cases.

Louis Dionne - Keynote Meeting C++ 2016 - C++ Metaprogramming: evolution and future direction

By Meeting C++ | Dec 5, 2016 08:23 AM | Tags: tmp metaprogramming intermediate experimental c++20 c++17 c++14 advanced

And the second keynote of Meeting C++ 2016 is on youtube:

C++ Metaprogramming: evolution and future direction

by Louis Dionne

Bjarne Stroustrup - Meeting C++ 2016 Keynote: What C++ is and what it will become

By Meeting C++ | Dec 5, 2016 02:51 AM | Tags: modules efficiency concepts c++20 c++17 c++14 c++11 basics advanced

Since yesterday this years opening keynote by Bjarne Stroustrup is on youtube:

What C++ is and what it will become

by Bjarne Stroustrup

CppCast Episode 80: Backtrace with Abel Mathew

By robwirving | Dec 2, 2016 09:49 AM | Tags: None

Episode 80 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Abel Mathew, Co-Founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O, to talk about the debugging platform and its features for C++ developers.

CppCast Episode 80: Backtrace with Abel Mathew

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.

C++ Weekly Episode 39: C++17’s Deduction Guides—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | Nov 29, 2016 09:52 AM | Tags: c++17 advanced

Episode 39 of C++ Weekly.

C++17's Deduction Guides

by Jason Turner

About the show:

C++17's automatic class template deduction feature brings with it a new sub-feature called "deduction guides" which are used to help the compiler with class template type deduction. Jason gives examples of what they are and how they are used in this episode.

GoingNative 55: ISO C++ @Issaquah Debriefing--Steve Carroll, Augustin Popa and Bryan DiLaura

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 28, 2016 12:37 PM | Tags: experimental community

The new GoingNative is out!

GoingNative 55: ISO C++ @Issaquah Debriefing

by Steve Carroll, Augustin Popa and Bryan DiLaura

From the video:

In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Gor Nishanov about what happened at the C++ standards meeting in Issaquah, Washington.

GoingNative 54: What's New In Visual Studio 2017 RC and Introduction To Vcpkg--Steve Carroll

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 23, 2016 12:39 PM | Tags: community

The new GoingNative is out!

GoingNative 54: What's New In Visual Studio 2017 RC and Introduction To Vcpkg

by Steve Carroll, Augustin Popa and Bryan DiLaura

From the video:

This episode of GoingNative comes to you in two parts:

First, Steve chats with Augustin Popa about the latest and greatest features in Visual Studio 2017 RC. Please try it out and let us know how you like it! For deeper dives on specific features, feel free to watch the Connect(); videos, or read about it on the Visual C++ Blog.

Second, Robert Schumacher talks about the new open source Windows package manager, Vcpkg. Vcpkg has been picked up enthusiastically by the community with a growing collection of supported libraries (90+ at the time this video was posted).

C++ Weekly Episode 38: C++17's Class Template Argument Type Deduction—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | Nov 22, 2016 10:08 AM | Tags: intermediate c++17

Episode 38 of C++ Weekly.

C++17's Class Template Argument Type Deduction

by Jason Turner

About the show:

In this episode Jason looks at C++17's class template argument type deduction and what its capabilities are. Some limitations and possible gotchas of usage are also discussed.

CppCast Episode 79: Cppcheck with Daniel Marjamäki

By robwirving | Nov 18, 2016 08:49 AM | Tags: None

Episode 79 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Marjamäki to talk about developing the CppCheck static analysis tool.

CppCast Episode 79: Cppcheck with Daniel Marjamäki

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Daniel lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and son. He has a degree in electronics but has never worked as an electronics engineer. Daniel works as a consultant at Evidente in Sweden which provides consultants and contractors for embedded software development and static analysis. Daniel started Cppcheck almost 10 years ago as a hobby project that he works on in his spare time. Daniel sometimes works on other hobby projects such as an open source retro mobile phone with a rotary dial plate instead of buttons or a screen.