March 23-28, London, UK
By Meeting C++ | Jan 22, 2015 02:58 AM | Tags: unittest testing intermediate basics
A new video from Meeting C++ 2014:
Testdriven C++ with Catch
by Phil Nash
From the talk description:
C++ has been notorious for being a second class citizen when it comes to test frameworks. There are plenty of them but they tend to be fiddly to set-up and ceremonious to use. Many of them attempt to follow the xUnit template without respect for the language environment they are written for. Catch is an attempt to cut through all of that...
By Felix Petriconi | Jan 20, 2015 08:11 AM | Tags: intermediate basics
Arne Mertz describes in his recent article insights about exception handling.
Don’t Try Too Hard! – Exception Handling
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
Among C++ developers there often appears to be a misconception about what it means to deal with code that can throw exceptions. The misconception is that the possibility of exceptions means one has to
tryandcatchoften and almost everywhere. I will try to explain why I think that is wrong and where I thinktry/catchis appropriate and where not.
By Meeting C++ | Jan 17, 2015 04:12 AM | Tags: performance meeting c++ efficiency c++11 basics
A new video from Meeting C++ 2014:
C++11 library components to make a programming scientist happy
by Peter Gottschling
From the talk description:
This talk presents a survey over components of the C++11
standard library which facilitate the life of a programming scientist.
It will provide a gentle introduction to the random number generator
and evolve this to a complete application: the stochastic simulation
of share price development.
By Felix Petriconi | Jan 16, 2015 01:55 AM | Tags: basics
Arne Mertz describes in a series of articles the principles of operator overloading.
Operator Overloading
Operator Overloading: Common Practice
by Arne Mertz
From the articles:
Operators can be used to make user defined classes act like known types, e.g. like numbers, pointers and iterators. That way they facilitate the usage of those classes. They can also be used to make your objects do whatever you want them to do, for example build structures that save the operations for later evaluation. The latter is especially useful for building embedded DSLs and gives enough subject matter for a whole series of blog posts. [The first] post will cover the former use of operator overloading, i.e. writing operators that behave like “normal” operators.
... In [the second] post I will go into the details and write a bit about each operator and how a straight forward implementation might look if the operator is meant to work similar to built in operators.
By Meeting C++ | Jan 15, 2015 07:32 AM | Tags: community c++14 basics
My yearly overview on the things that might come:
C++ in 2015
by Jens Weller
From the article:
The year is still young, so lets have an outlook about what is going to happen in C++ Land in 2015...
By Meeting C++ | Jan 2, 2015 06:07 AM | Tags: user groups intermediate community c++ basics
A new year, and many more user groups? In January there are already 18 planned meetings:
C++ User Group Meetings in January 2015
by Jens Weller
The Meeting List:
7.1 C++ UG Saint Louis - Deep Dive - Part 1
7.1 C++ UG Santa Barbara - Boost Units
8.1 C++ UG NRW/Aachen - Open Source mit Schwerpunkt C++
8.1 C++ UG Dresden - OpenFoam
14.1 C++ UG Utah - Group Exercism.io in C++
14.1 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Presentation and Q&A
15.1 C++ UG Madrid - De 0 a 100 (Taller)
15.1 C++ UG Hamburg - Mandelbrot mit MPI
19.1 C++ UG Denver - Denver Tech Center C++ Developers
19.1 C++ UG Austin - North Austin Monthly C/C++ Pub Social
19.1 C++ UG Juce - JUCE C++ Meetup San Francisco
20.1 C++ UG Chicago - CUDA
20.1 C++ UG Juce - JUCE C++ Meetup Los Angeles
21.1 C++ UG Bristol - Save the date
21.1 C++ UG Düsseldorf - Treffen der C++ User Gruppe NRW
22.1 C++ UG Rhein-Neckar - Summary of Meeting C++ Conference and Coding Dojo
22.1 C++ UG Munich - Expression Templates Revisited
28.1 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Workshop and Discussion Group
By Meeting C++ | Dec 20, 2014 04:48 AM | Tags: conference community basics
I wrote a little bit about this years Meeting C++ conference and the year it self:
And that was Meeting C++ 2014
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Do you remember? 2 weeks ago, the first day of this years conference came to an end, and I was happy to know that things went so well...
By Andrey Karpov | Dec 18, 2014 11:55 AM | Tags: quiz basics
[We don't often link to quiz-like sites, particularly product-specific ones, but in this case we felt that this could be of broad interest to some of our readers. -- Ed.]
The authors of the PVS-Studio analyzer invite you to test your attentiveness:
Let's play a game -- spot the bug in popular open-source projects
by Andrey Karpov
From the article:
Code analyzers never get tired and can find errors a human's eye cannot easily notice. We have picked a few code fragments with errors revealed by PVS-Studio, all the fragments taken from well-known open-source projects.
We invite you to take part in a competition against code analyzers to test your agility by trying to find the errors by yourself. You will be offered 15 randomly selected tasks. Every correct answer earns you one score if you give it within 60 seconds. The code fragments are short and 60 seconds is a fair limit.
Let's examine a couple of examples with errors for you to understand how to give the answer...
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By Razvan Pascalau | Dec 18, 2014 04:23 AM | Tags: c++11 basics
Scott Meyers' keynote at the Meeting C++ 2014 conference. A short description can be found on
the presenters blog.
The Evolving Search for Effective C++
by Scott Meyers
Description from the blog:
The video of my keynote address at Meeting C++ 2014 on December 5 has just been posted to the Meeting C++ Channel at YouTube. I was given a long time slot (two hours), so I addressed two rather different topics, both based on my work of the past quarter century identifying and promulgating guidelines for effective C++ programming...
By Blog Staff | Dec 16, 2014 08:31 AM | Tags: basics
Today on Andrzej's blog:
Using assertions
by Andrzej Krzemieński
From the article:
This post is a response to my recent encounters with fellow programmers who appear to me to be missing the point of assertions and fail to appreciate their usefulness. The first post I have ever written here was on assertions, I still find it good, so there is no need to repeat it; here I will only describe how I observe people treat assertions and why I believe it is wrong.
I am reviewing the following code...