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Highlighting the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2022

Like every year, Meeting C++ is also offering a set of free tickets for students and those that are in need of a little support!

Highlighting the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2022

by Jens Weller

From the article

With the schedule published, I'd like to highlight the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2022.

For a few years now Meeting C++ has hosted programs to give students, underrepresented folks and those who can't afford a ticket access to the conference. This is supported through the ticket sales and some times sponsorships.

About conditional breakpoints

A post on conditional breakpoints, including two surveys about their usage.

About conditional brealkpoits

by Jens Weller

From the article:

A few weeks ago someone asked me for advice on finding a specific bug in a larger C++ code base...

I don't remember much of the details, but one of the challenges was that at least some of the code based used public members, and in order to find the bug a change in these members is what they wanted to understand. Adding out put statements into a setter function wasn't possible, as the code did not have those. My suggestion was using a conditional breakpoint. And it also made me curious, if and how they're used with in our community.

Talks and Speaker for Meeting C++ 2022 released

Since yesterday its possible to have a first look at the program of Meeting C++ 2022

A first view on the talks and speakers of Meeting C++ 2022

by Jens Weller

From the article:

I'm excited to release this update for Meeting C++ 2022: the talks and speakers for this years conference!

As you can see in the talk listing, this is still an ongoing process, getting the speaker pictures from the new speakers for this year will still take a while. Creating the schedule will also take a few weeks, as of now Tracks A and B are planned on site, with Tracks C and D being part of the online part.

Porting my first application from Qt5 to Qt6

An overview on the issues face when porting my first application to Qt6

Porting my first Application from Qt5 to Qt6

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Just this week I had the opportunity to recompile one of my Qt Applications to build it with Qt6. Here is some of the results.

The application in question manages parts of the conference, and hence is written in Qt for the UI and uses SQLite as datastorage, so Qt also used for this and as I learned for a few other things too...

Technical Speaking about C++

Meeting C++ organized an event centered around sharing material on creating better talks and presentations for C++:

Technical Speaking about C++

by Jens Weller

About the article:

This event will focus on the process of creating technical talks for the C++ community. Various speakers will share their views on how to submit, prepare and give talks to the C++ community in the form of lightning talks.

 

Improving Stability with Modern C++, Part 4 — Memory Management

Smart pointers

Improving Stability with Modern C++, Part 4 — Memory Management

by Ralph Kootker

From the article

When we started learning C++, we were all taught that every new needs a corresponding delete. But sometimes we'd forget, or some code might throw an exception we weren't ready for, and then we'd leak memory. [...] With rare exceptions, C++ programmers should not have to write new or delete ever again.