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A better date and time C++ library--Marius Bancila

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 2, 2016 01:11 PM | Tags: community c++11

Did you know that library?

A better date and time C++ library

by Marius Bancila

From the article:

C++11 added a date and time utility library called chrono, available in namespace std::chrono and header <chrono>. The problem with it is that the library is a general purpose one and therefore lacks many useful features, such as working with dates, weeks, calendars, timezones and other related features. Fortunately, a rich date and time library based on chrono has been created by Howard Hinnant and is available on github...

38 C++ User Group Meetings in November

By Meeting C++ | Nov 1, 2016 09:09 AM | Tags: community

The monthly overview on upcoming C++ User Group meetings

C++ User Group meetings in November 2016

by Jens Weller

From the article:

This month features 38 C++ User Group meetings already! Plus several C++ Conferences, including Meeting C++ 2016! I included since this month also the LLVM groups which are meeting, there are a few. This is why this month has also 12 new User Groups, with the latest additions of a new group in London and Melbourne!

There are 12 new C++ User Groups: Kitchener, OT, Brussels, Cluj (Qt), Berlin (llvm), St. Petersburg (llvm), Paris (llvm), Bay area (llvm), Cambridge (llvm), Denver, Minsk, London and Melbourne.

Presenting Code

By Meeting C++ | Oct 27, 2016 06:46 AM | Tags: presenting community

How should we present code? - is the question.

Presenting Code

by Jens Weller

From the article:

At CppCon 2015 I decided to give a small lightning talk on how to present code in the coming year. This was a reflection on visiting many C++ related conferences and seeing many talks live and online...

Announcing the lounge track for Meeting C++ 2016

By Meeting C++ | Oct 25, 2016 07:59 AM | Tags: community

Something new at Meeting C++ this year: a track dedicated to meetups!

Announcing the Lounge Track

by Jens Weller

From the Article:

If you look at the schedule, you might notice two changes. Most visible is that there is now a floor plan for the conference. The other one is very subtle: the breaks now have a hint for a 6th track.

ACCU 2017 Call for session -- ACCU

By Felix Petriconi | Oct 24, 2016 02:53 AM | Tags: community

The ACCU 2017 is now putting together its program, and they want you to speak on C++. The ACCU has a strong C++ track, though it is not a C++-only conference. If you have something to share, check out their

Call for Sessions

by the ACCU

From the article:

We have a long tradition of high quality sessions covering many aspects of software development, from programming languages (e.g. C, C++, D, C#, Go, Rust, Clojure, Erlang, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, ECMAScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, etc.), and technologies (libraries, frameworks, databases, etc.) to subjects about the wider development environment such as testing, architecture and design, development process, analysis, patterns, project management, and softer aspects such as team building, communication and leadership. See the 2016 schedule for examples.

The Call for Sessions lasts 7 weeks and will close at midnight Friday 2016-12-02.

Tutorial: Emulating strong/opaque typedefs in C++--Jonathan Müller

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 20, 2016 12:36 PM | Tags: intermediate community

Who would like this feature?

Tutorial: Emulating strong/opaque typedefs in C++

by Jonathan Müller

From the article:

Last week, I’ve released my type_safe library. I described it’s features in the corresponding blog post but because the blog post got rather long, I couldn’t cover one feature: strong typedefs.

Strong or opaque typedefs are a very powerful feature if you want to prevent errors with the type system - and as I’ve been advocating for, you want that. Unlike “normal” typedefs, they are a true type definition: they create a new type and allow stuff like overloading on them and/or prevent implicit conversions.

4th Spanish C++ conference using std::cpp 2016 (spanish)

By jdgarcia | Oct 19, 2016 05:13 AM | Tags: community

At the 24th of November at Leganés in Madrid in Spain, for the fourth year in a row the one day event using std::cpp will gather professional developers in a series of talks devoted exclusively to C++. 

using std::cpp

This year using std::cpp includes the following talks:

  • C++17 is (almost) here. J. Daniel García (ARCOS Lab, University Carlos III), member of ISO C++ standards committee and associate professor in Computer Architecture.
  • Get your types to work. Software developer and contributor of several Boost libraries (example, Boost multi-index).
  • C++ and much more. An overview to the available libraries univers. Martin Knoblauch (Indizen Technologies), a software developer in the finance sector.
  • Test Driven Development in C++. Raúl Huertas (TCP Sistemas), a software developer with long background in the telecom business.
  • Using C++ in safety critical embedded systems for railways. Ion Gaztañaga (CAF), another Boost contributor (example, Boost Interprocess).
  • At a Matlab breakdown... Save me C++! Javier Garcia-Blas (ARCOS Lab, University Carlos III), visiting professor in Computer Architecture.
  • Static and dynamic polymorphism in C++11: Flexibility versus performance?. J. Daniel Garcia (ARCOS Lab, University Carlos III), member of ISO C++ standards committee and associate professor in Computer Architecture.
  • Using templates in C++ to design and implement. Jose Caicoya (Hotel Beds), software developer with background in real-time systems, finance and, more recently, hotel reservation systems.
  • Distributed systems: How to connect your real-time applications. Jaime Martin (eProsima), developer of an open source DDS impelementation.
  • Developing an reflection system for C++14. Manu Sanchez (ByTech), software developer and metaprogrammer.

About using std::cpp

The using std::cpp event has been happening every year since 2013 in University Carlos III (Leganes, Madrid, Spain), where every year around 200 developers have gathered to share experiences in using C++ for professional software develpment.

The event is organized by ARCOS Lab (University Carlos III), a research group focused in applications of high performance computing to multiple domains. It is also sponsored by Indizen Technologies.

Overload 135 is now available

By Adrien Hamelin | Oct 14, 2016 02:32 PM | Tags: community

ACCU’s Overload journal of October 2016 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.

Overload 135 is now available

From the journal:

Determinism: Requirements vs Features
A program can easily be non-deterministic. Sergey Ignatchenko considers how to define determinism. by Sergey Ignatchenko

Eight Rooty Pieces
Finding a square root is a common interview question. Patrick Martin demonstrates eight different ways to find a root. by Patrick Martin

Polymorphic Comparisons
Polymorphic comparisons require much boilerplate. Robert Mill and Jonathan Coe introduce a template utility for such comparisons. by Robert Mill and Jonathan Coe

C++ Synchronous Continuation Passing Style
Direct and continuation passing styles differ. Nick Weatherhead explains a continuation passing style for synchronous data flow. by Nick Weatherhead

Attacking Licensing Problems with C++
Software licenses are often crackable. Deák Ferenc presents a technique for tackling this problem. by Deák Ferenc