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CppCon 2016: Safe Numerics Library--Robert Ramey
Have you registered for CppCon 2017 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2016 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
Safe Numerics Library
by Robert Ramey
Summary of the talk:
This presentation describes the necessity, utility and usage for a library of safe integer types. These types function in all respects the same way as built-in integers, but guarantee that no integer expression will return an incorrect result. The library can be reviewed at the boost library incubator.
Overload 140 is now available
ACCU’s Overload journal of June 2017 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.
From the journal:
Editorial: Gnomes and Misnomers.
What's in a name? Frances Buontempo decides some names are better than others.The Path of the Programmer.
Charles Tolman provides a framework for personal development.A Usable C++ Dialect that is Safe Against Memory Corruption.
Sergey Ignatchenko continues his investigation of allocators for (Re)Actors.Metaclasses: Thoughts on Generative C++.
Herb Sutter shows how metaclasses could simplify C++ with minimal library extension.A C++ Developer Sees Rustlang for the First Time.
Katarzyna Macias provides an introduction to Rust for a C++ developer.Portable Console I/O via iostreams.
Alf Steinbach describes how his library fixes problems streaming non-ASCII characters in Windows.A Functional Alternative to Dependency Injection in C++.
Satprem Pamudurthy showcases a functional alternative to dependency injection in C++.About the C++ Core Guidelines.
Andreas Fertig shows us the C++ core guidelines.Afterwood.
Chris Oldwood reminds us to fix the problem, not to blame.
C++17 Features And STL Fixes In VS 2017 15.3--Stephan T. Lavavej
It's always getting better!
C++17 Features And STL Fixes In VS 2017 15.3
by Stephan T. Lavavej
From the article:
Visual Studio 2017’s first toolset update, version 15.3, is currently in preview and will be released in its final form very soon. (The toolset consists of the compiler, linker, and libraries. After VS 2017 RTM, the 15.1 and 15.2 updates improved the IDE. The 15.3 update improves both the IDE and the toolset. In general, you should expect the IDE to be updated at a higher frequency than the toolset.)
r/cpp_review - a C++ Library Review Community
A short video on r/cpp_review
A C++ Library Review Community
by Jens Weller
GoingNative 60: ISO C++ @Toronto Debriefing--Steve Carroll
The new Going Native is out!
GoingNative 60: ISO C++ @Toronto Debriefing
by Steve Carroll
From the article:
In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Billy O'Neal about what happened at the C++ standards meeting in Toronto, Canada.
CppCon 2016: A modern database interface for C++--Erik Smith
Have you registered for CppCon 2017 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2016 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
A modern database interface for C++
by Erik Smith
Summary of the talk:
C++ has historically had many options for database connectivity but has lacked a standard interface that other languages, such as Java, have had for a long time. This talk will present a standards grade interface along with experience with a reference implementation that includes support for at least 6 databases. A key aspect of the design is to show how modern C++ features can be used to achieve a high degree of both efficiency and ease-of-use. Specific features to be covered will include type conversion, connection pooling, I/O binding for scalars and arrays, row sets, direct/polymorphic interfaces, policy based design, the driver interface, and details on the implementation. Forward looking standards proposals, such as ranges and variants, will also be included in the discussion.
CppCon 2017: Call for Volunteers
An amazing opportunity!
CppCon 2017: Call for Volunteers
From the article:
If you would like to attend CppCon 2017, see great C++ content, and meet our speakers and attendees, but a week’s registration doesn’t fit your time or money budget, consider volunteering.
Live Webinar agenda and demo project: Refactoring C++ code--Anastasia Kazakova
Interested?
Live Webinar agenda and demo project: Refactoring C++ code
by Anastasia Kazakova
From the article:
The webinar about refactoring C++ code is planned for August. Arne Mertz, the author of popular Simplify C++ blog, will talk about general strategies and effective refactoring process.
CppCon 2016: Turning Particle-Astro-Physicist-Hackers into Software Engineers--Alex Olivas
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While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2016 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
Turning Particle-Astro-Physicist-Hackers into Software Engineers
by Alex Olivas
Summary of the talk:
Want to increase software literacy in your organization? In this talk I'll present programs I've developed over the last year to teach C++ software engineering principles to graduate students and postdocs on the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory. I believe similar programs could be beneficial to all types of organizations, from scientific collaborations to professional software shops.
IceCube is a kilometer-scale high energy neutrino observatory located deep in the Antarctic ice at the geographic South Pole. IceCube studies physics in energy regimes ranging from the most energetic processes in the visible universe (several orders of magnitude greater than the collision energies at the Large Hadron Collider), to dark matter detection at the 100 GeV scale. It is a relatively large collaboration, consisting of roughly 300 physicists and engineers from 48 institutions from a dozen different countries. IceCube has been collecting data for over 11 years (going into our 6th season with the fully completed detector) and is expected to run for at least another decade.
Many large scientific projects, which often run for decades, rely on code developed by hackers, who's focus and passion is rarely software engineering. Their primary passion, understandably, is the field for which they found themselves writing code. To make matters worse, the amount of work and focus required to secure a career in their chosen field often leaves little time and energy to devote to honing the skills needed to develop production quality code. Many students and postdocs often have, at best, a cursory understanding of the programming language(s) that comprise the experiment's codebase.
C++ has become the primary programming language for High Energy Physics (HEP) and will likely continue to be for decades to come. Consider, for example, that ROOT, GEANT, and Pythia to name a few critical HEP libraries are written in C++. Over the last year on IceCube, I've developed several comprehensive internal training programs in an attempt to bridge the gap between the scientist-hacker and the professional C++ software engineer. In this session I'd like to present the challenges I've encountered over the last year and my plans for extending these programs to the High Energy Physics community through the HEP Software Foundation.