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Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Jacksonville, February 2016--Botond Ballo

ANother trip report:

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Jacksonville, February 2016

by Botond Ballo

From the article:

Last week I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee in Jacksonville, Florida. This was the first committee meeting in 2016; you can find my reports on the 2015 meetings here (May 2015, Lenexa) and here (October 2015, Kona). These reports, particularly the Kona one, provide useful context for this post...

Guidelines Support Library Review: span--Marius Bancila

Explanations on the span:

Guidelines Support Library Review: span<T>

by Marius Bancila

From the article:

The Guidelines Support Library is a Microsoft implementation of some of the types and functions described in the C++ Core Guidelines maintained by the Standard C++ Foundation. Among the types provided by the GSL is span<T> formerly known as array_view<T>. This article is an introduction to this type.

C++ User Group Meetings in March

The monthly overview on upcoming C++ User Group meetings at Meeting C++:

C++ User Group meetings in March 2016

by Jens Weller

From the article:

A new month, and more C++ User Groups are meeting! There are more details about running your own user group at the C++ User Group page of Meeting C++. My list of User Groups contains now 65 groups, which of the most have been active in the last year, some do not meet every month but most do. This month it is again 25 User Groups which have announced their meetings sofar!

During February I found 3 new C++ User Groups: Sofia, Hannover, Nantes.

The meetings...

CppCon 2016 registration is open

The early bird registration for the upcoming CppCon 2016 in September is open.

 
 

Early Bird registration

The big new is that there are six classes that will be held on the Saturday and Sunday before the conference. Attendees can choose between classes on the Core Guidelines, concurrency, embedded developement, C++11/14, Qt/Widgets, and low-latency programming taught by some of the best instructors in the industry.

Registration opportunties also include a field trip to Seattle's Living Computer Museum, attending the Standards Committee's Study Group on game development and low-latency, and getting logo'ed shirts.

C++ User Group Meetings in February

The monthly listing of upcoming C++ User Group meetings at Meeting C++:

C++ User Group Meetings in February

by Jens Weller

From the article

The monthly overview on the upcoming C++ User Group meetings! In the shortest month of the year there are still 21 C++ User Groups which are meeting!

There are 7 new C++ User Groups: Sofia, Ho Chi Minh, Iasi, Noida, Macedonia, Buenos Aires, Stuttgart / Ludwigsburg (Qt).