October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 11, 2017 03:24 PM | Tags: intermediate community
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.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 11, 2017 03:18 PM | Tags: efficiency community
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:
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.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 10, 2017 01:15 PM | Tags: efficiency community
A new event is coming:
22.08.2017, C++::London Meetup: Why Iterators Got It Wrong and A Foreign Function Interface Generator for C++
From the article:
Interested in C++ present and future? Want to improve your skills and knowledge - or just hang out with like-minded individuals? Don't miss this month's C++ London meetup!
By Meeting C++ | Aug 10, 2017 08:12 AM | Tags: performance intermediate efficiency community codereview c++14 c++11 basics
Participate in the first two reviews at r/cpp_review:
The reviews have begun
by Jens Weller
From the article
A few weeks ago I announced a C++ review community, which since then has grown to 250+ members on reddit. There has been great feedback and discussions since then, so that the idea is now ready to be tested. With August, the first review period has started
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 9, 2017 01:08 PM | Tags: community
A new version is out.
build2 0.6.0 adds Modules TS support for VC++, Clang, GCC
From the article:
These notes provide a more detailed discussion of major new features in the build2 release 0.6.0, including motivation for implementing them and their usage examples. For the complete list of changes, see the Release Announcement or the NEWS files in the individual packages.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 9, 2017 12:48 PM | Tags: efficiency community
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:
Asynchronous IO with Boost.Asio
by Michael Caisse
Summary of the talk:
Reactive systems are found everywhere. The temptation to implement them with legions of waiting threads can be strong; however, the result is nearly always disappointing. The Boost.Asio library provides a framework to handle asynchronous resources with specific classes directed toward networking, serial port I/O, timers and more. In this session we will introduce Asio and some best practices while implementing a simple TCP client and server.
Asio has been submitted to the C++ Standards Committee for inclusion and can be found in the Boost library collection or as a stand-alone version. Come and learn a better way to implement reactive systems with the Asynchronous I/O library.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 7, 2017 03:41 PM | Tags: community
It's getting closer.
Qt talks at CppCon 2017
by Giuseppe D'Angelo
From the article:
The program for CppCon 2017 is now published!
CppCon is the annual conference for the C++ community: five days packed with over 100 talks, as well as inspiring keynotes, panel discussions, hallway chats, fun evening events and much more. CppCon is a project of the Standard C++ Foundation, a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to support the C++ software developer community and promote the understanding and use of modern, standard C++ on all compilers and platforms.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 7, 2017 03:39 PM | Tags: experimental community
A revolution!
A Summary of the Metaclasses Proposal for C++
by Jonathan Boccara
From the article:
A couple of weeks ago, Herb Sutter posted his proposal about metaclasses, triggering a wave of enthusiasm among the C++ community. And for good reason.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 7, 2017 03:24 PM | Tags: performance community
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:
The Blaze High Performance Math Library
by Klaus Iglberger
Summary of the talk:
In this presentation we introduce the Blaze C++ math library, a hot contender for the linear algebra performance throne. Blaze is an open-source, high-performance library for dense and sparse arithmetic. It combines elegance and ease of use with HPC-grade performance, making it one of the most intuitive and at the same time fastest C++ math libraries available.
We demonstrate its basic linear algebra functionality by means of several BLAS level 1 to 3 operations and explain why Blaze outperforms even well established linear algebra libraries. Additionally, we present some advanced features that enable users to adapt Blaze to special circumstances: custom data structures, custom operations, and the customizable error reporting mechanism.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 4, 2017 01:20 PM | Tags: experimental community
Another report:
Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Toronto, July 2017
by Botond Ballo
From the article:
A couple of weeks ago I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee (also known as WG21) in Toronto, Canada (which, incidentally, is where I’m based). This was the second committee meeting in 2017; you can find my reports on previous meetings here (November 2016, Issaquah) and here (February 2017, Kona). These reports, particularly the Kona one, provide useful context for this post.