March 19-21, Madrid, Spain
April 1-4, Bristol, UK
June 16-21, Sofia, Bulgaria
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 10, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: community
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C++ Conferences
Jens Weller
By Meeting C++ | Aug 3, 2015 05:37 AM | Tags: community
The monthly overview on upcomging C++ User Group meetings:
19 C++ User Group Meetings in August
by Jens Weller
A short overview:
5.8 C++ UG Saint Louis - "Fun with Lambdas" Lightning Talk\, Interview Questions and more
5.8 C++ UG Austin - Introduction to the QT Framework using C++ and QML
6.8 C++ UG Edinburgh - C++ Edinburgh
10.8 C++ UG Denver - Denver Tech Center C++ Developers
12.8 C++ UG Utah - Regular Monthly Meeting
12.8 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Presentation and Q&A
12.8 C++ UG Washington, DC - Q & A / Info Sharing
17.8 C++ UG Austin - North Austin Monthly C/C++ Pub Social
17.8 C++ UG Juce - Deploy Pure Data patches to any OS with JUCE
18.8 C++ UG Berlin - TBA
19.8 C++ UG Düsseldorf - Treffen der C++ User Gruppe NRW
19.8 C++ UG Hamburg - constexpr
20.8 C++ UG Ruhrgebiet - August Meetup - std::advance(CodingStandard, Modern::c++)
24.8 C++ UG Göteborg - Let's meetup and discuss the format for this group
25.8 C++ UG Chicago - Using NuGet to manage external dependencies in Visual C++ builds
26.8 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Workshop and Discussion Group
26.8 C++ UG Washington, DC - Q & A / Info Sharing
26.8 C++ UG Aarhus - Access Guards
27.8 C++ UG Munich - Pruning Error Messages From Your C++ Template Code
By Jordi Mon Companys | Jul 30, 2015 08:14 AM | Tags: community
Program, speakers etc. are all online now in Russian.
C++ Siberia 2015
Organized by Sergey Platonov
What to expect at Siberia C++:
The event will take place in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia in August 2015. People from Yandex, Boost, PVS-Studio and many more companies will share their knowledge on compilers, concurrency and much more.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 29, 2015 11:19 AM | Tags: community
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Using C++ to Connect to Web Services
by Steve Gates
Summary of the talk:
Many languages have great support for connecting to web services. Trying to connect C++ applications to the cloud is difficult. The C++ standard library doesn't contain anything for networking (yet), and with the proliferation of devices, being able to do so in a cross platform manner is even more appealing. Often requiring use of multiple different styled, and potentially low level, libraries where asynchrony wasn't designed from the start. Or by building your own abstract layers over platform and operating system APIs, all of which distract from focusing on the core logic of your application.
The C++ REST SDK makes connecting to services easier by creating APIs focused on simplicity and asynchrony, built using tasks from the Parallel Patterns Library. This is done by putting together a series of cross platform libraries for working with HTTP, WebSockets, JSON, URIs, and OAuth. In many cases building on top of other popular open source libraries like Boost, OpenSSL, and WebSocket++. This talk will take a practical approach looking at what is involved in connecting to some of the common popular services from C++, using the C++ REST SDK and other libraries. Several tutorial style example and demos will be done using C++ code that runs on all the major platforms.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 27, 2015 11:49 AM | Tags: performance community
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sqlpp11, An SQL Library Worthy Of Modern C++
by Roland Bock
Summary of the talk:
SQL and C++ are both strongly typed languages. They should play well together. But most C/C++ interfaces to SQL databases are string based. They force the developer to effectively hide the SQL types, names and expression structures from the compiler. This defers the validation of SQL expressions until runtime, i.e. unit tests or even production. And the strings might even be vendor specific, because different databases expect different dialects of SQL in those strings.
That feels wrong. Modern C++ can do better.
This talk gives an introduction to sqlpp11, a templated embedded domain specific language for SQL in C++. It allows you to build type-safe SQL expressions with type-safe results, all of which can be verified at compile time, long before your code enters unit tests or even production.
In addition to its obvious use with relational databases, sqlpp11 can also serve as an SQL frontend for all kinds of data sources: Since sqlpp11 offers complete SQL expression trees even at compile time, it isn't hard to apply SQL expressions to std::vector or std::map for instance, or streams, or XML, or JSON, you name it. With your help, sqlpp11 could become for C++ what LINQ is for C#.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 6, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: community c++11
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The Committee Experience
by Alisdair Meredith
Summary of the talk:
What happens behind the closed doors of the ISO Standard Committee? And just how closed are they?
The session collects some anecdotes and relates what it is like to get involved in the process of standardizing C++, from the perspective of someone attending their first meeting - me 10 years ago! - to now. We will hear some of the highs and lows along the way to C++11, some misconceptions of what might be involved, and get some idea of what happens during a typical standard meeting, and between.
By the end you will have some idea of how the standard itself is actually formed, and hopefully spark the interest of folks who might be interested in getting involved themselves...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 3, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: community
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cppreference.com: documenting C++ one edit at a time
by Nate Kohl
Summary of the talk:
How do you convert hundreds of pages of C++ standardese into a resource that is accessible to software engineers around the world? This talk will describe the process of building a community-run website that documents all of the nooks and dark corners of the C++ programming language. I'll look back at the history of how C++ was defined, cover the current state of documentation, examine the pros and cons of running a fairly high-profile publicly-editable wiki, and try to guess at what the future holds.
By Meeting C++ | Jul 1, 2015 08:32 AM | Tags: community basics advanced
The monthly overview on upcoming C++ User Group Meetings, this time its 18 User Groups who are meeting during summer!
C++ User Group Meetings in July
by Jens Weller
The list of meetings:
7.7 C++ UG Chicago - Memory Management in C++14 and Beyond
8.7 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - HPX, C++ parallel programming framework
8.7 C++ UG Bristol - The Anatomy of Exceptional Engineers
9.7 C++ UG New York - July C++ Meetup
9.7 C++ UG Amsterdam - Hot C++, Part 2
9.7 C++ UG Dresden - Lazy generating non-integral values in range-based for loops
15.7 C++ UG Utah - Embedded Scripting with ChaiScript
15.7 C++ UG Bristol - Save the date
15.7 C++ UG Washington, DC - Q & A / Info Sharing
15.7 C++ UG Düsseldorf - Traveling for C++, a trip report
21.7 C++ UG Berlin - Ingo Josopait - Introducing the Goopax compiler for GPUs and Barb
21.7 C++ UG Portland - PDXCPP July Meeting-- feat. Jon Kalb
22.7 C++ UG San Francisco/ Bay area - Workshop and Discussion Group
23.7 C++ UG Rhein-Neckar - Presenting for Geeks
28.7 C++ UG Cologne - Monthly meeting
29.7 C++ UG Washington, DC - Q & A / Info Sharing
29.7 C++ UG Hamburg - Protocol Buffers
30.7 C++ UG Bremen - C++ Testframeworks
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 26, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: experimental community
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What the committee did next!
by Alisdair Meredith
Summary of the talk:
Now that C++14 is done, what is the standard committee working on next?
After inking 8 years to produce the C++11 standard (arguably 13) there was a feeling we should be able to produce new work faster, more incrementally. With the renewed interest in C++, we have more participation on the committee, and have looked to harness that enthusiasm in new ways. In the last 3 years we have spun up at least a dozen new study groups, and have 8 or mode Technical Specifications in various stages of development that we hope to ship over the next 12-24 months. So what are all these new groups and specifications about? Come to this session and get a vision of where C++ is headed in the immediate and short-term future.
By Mantosh Kumar | Jun 17, 2015 10:04 PM | Tags: community advanced
Techincal discussion information while standardizing N4542.
Standardizing Variant: Difficult Decisions
by Anthony Williams
From the article:
One of the papers proposed for the next version of the C++ Standard is N4542: Variant: a type safe union (v4). As you might guess from the (v4) in the title, this paper has been discussed several times by the committee, and revised in the light of discussions.Boost has had a variant type for a long time, so it only seems natural to standardize it. However, there are a couple of design decisions made for boost::variant which members of the committee were uncomfortable with, so the current paper has a couple of differences from boost::variant. The most notable of these is that boost::variant has a "never empty" guarantee, whereas N4542 proposes a variant that can be empty.