By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 12, 2016 01:43 PM | Tags: community basics
Here is a beginner's guide:
Starting With the Poco Libraries
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
Recently I started to use the web server functionality of Poco. Today I’ll describe my first experiences with the library.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 12, 2016 01:39 PM | Tags: community c++11
Have you registered for CppCon 2016 in September? Don’t delay – Late registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
3D Face Tracking and Reconstruction using Modern C++
by Patrik Huber
Summary of the talk:
In this talk, I will present my work in computer vision, namely landmark detection and 3D face tracking, and the two C++ libraries that were developed in the process. The first part of the talk will give an introduction to detecting facial landmark points and work through a hello-world code example that presents and uses the superviseddescent library, a cross-platform library for cascaded regression that can be used to solve problems like landmark detection or pose estimation. The second part of the talk will present an approach that uses the found landmarks from the first part to use a 3D face model to track a person's face. With the library presented in the process, we hope to make 3D models easier to use and more widespread in the community. Both libraries are designed to be lightweight and simple to use, and try to follow modern C++11/14 programming paradigms. The talk concludes with my views on code sustainability in academia and a wish list of standard library features for computer vision.
By Jon Kalb | Sep 9, 2016 10:46 AM | Tags: community
Do you have something to say to C++ programers? Can you say it in five minutes?
CppCon 2016 Call for Lightning Talks
by Michael Caisse
From the call:
Lightning talks are fast paced, short presentations often sprinkled with humor and intrigue. The popular 5-minute talks present topics that are interesting to C++ programmers and are open to speakers at all experience levels.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 7, 2016 02:16 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency community
Have you registered for CppCon 2016 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 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
Pruning Error Messages From Your C++ Template Code
by Roland Bock
Summary of the talk:
Many template libraries are regarded with ambivalent feelings by developers: On the one hand, such libraries can offer wonderful functionality. On the other hand, they are dreaded for the sheer amount of error messages spilled out by the compiler when there is even a small bug in the developer's code. This talk will demonstrate several techniques to drastically reduce the amount of compiler output in case of errors (with real-life examples, of course).
By Meeting C++ | Sep 7, 2016 01:08 AM | Tags: events community
The Meeting C++ Student Program is live:
Announcing the Meeting C++ Student Program
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Rules
- You are between 18 and 25 years old (Will be checked during registration at the event!)
- 25 "Students" will be selected from all participants (randomly)
- Definition of Student: I don't want to define or check who is a student or not. Hence age is only requirement. Age will be checked at the event.
- The program covers the ticket, but not costs for travel and accomondation
- Workshops are not included
- No cheating or manipulation in any form (exclusion from program)
- The ticket is not transferable, no refund for purchased tickets
- There is no recourse to legal action
By Meeting C++ | Sep 6, 2016 05:41 AM | Tags: community
The last call for sponsors for this years Meeting C++ conference:
Can you sponsor Meeting C++ 2016?
by Jens Weller
From the article:
A final call for sponsors! With only a few weeks left, its a good time to come on board as a sponsor!
With my trip to the Andels Hotel in Berlin I saw that this year Meeting C++ will also offer plenty of space for booth and hence companies to present themself to this years attendees! Also two more talk slots are available, and a few other options to present yourself as a sponsor at Meeting C++ are available!
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 5, 2016 01:42 PM | Tags: community advanced
Have you registered for CppCon 2016 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 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
Secure C++ Programming
by Gwendolyn Hunt
Summary of the talk:
Security vulnerabilities are fundamentally defects in our code. We know many of these defects stem from string processing, buffer overflows and integer underflow and overflows. These defects become security vulnerabilities when an attacker can crash an application, cause undefined behavior that leads to a Denial of Service, privilege escalation or hidden installation of rogue software.
So how do we build more secure C++ software? It starts by gaining an understanding of the basics of security vulnerabilities and how to identify them using the rich set of tools we now have available. With this foundation we can build a development culture where security considerations are pervasive and treated as important as program and algorithm correctness.
This session begins with a survey of common C/C++ string, integer and STL container issues and mitigations for these vulnerabilities. Follows with two detailed examples of vulnerabilities and how to fix their problems. Finishes with a survey of tools and references we have available today.
By Meeting C++ | Sep 1, 2016 12:58 AM | Tags: user group community basics
The monthly overview on upcoming C++ User Group meetings by Meeting C++:
C++ User Group meetings in September
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Another month, another round of User Group Meetings! September has lots of User Groups meeting (32 in total), and offers a highlight of the C++ year: CppCon!
There are 2 new C++ User Groups: Cary, NC and Bangalore (Qt)...
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 29, 2016 11:22 AM | Tags: intermediate experimental community
Have you registered for CppCon 2016 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 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
Templator: Demo of a nice tool for Visualizing Template Instantiations
by Peter Sommerlad
Summary of the talk:
Many C++ beginners shy away from employing templates in their code, because of the myth of templates being hard. Even seasoned C++ developers can have problems manually interpreting template code correctly as Olve Maudal's C++ pub quiz demonstrates. Overloads and template specializations make it hard for programmers and also IDEs to show a developer what happens without compiling a program and even with a compile one might not get, what actually happens unless an unintelligible error message from your compiler appears.
My students tried to alleviate that problem by visualizing template instantiation and overload selection in a C++ IDE and allow to navigate through template code in instantiation context that a compiler would only create internally and that is otherwise not available for humans. While still in its nascent state I hope to show what is possible and if things go as planned at the time of the submission you should be able to solve the template pub quiz questions without running the programs.
By Jon Kalb | Aug 28, 2016 10:42 AM | Tags: community
CppCon is recuiting volunteers.
Call for Volunteers
for CppCon 2016
From the call:
We need people to help assemble registration packets and badges, register attendees, assist speakers with Audio/Video, and in general be on hand to make things run smoothly. In exchange, we’ll see to it that you’ll spend at least half of your time in sessions.