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Visual C++ Conformance
Rob and Jason are joined by Andrew Pardoe to discuss Visual C++ conformance progress as well as experimental features like Modules. Andrew started working at Microsoft in 2002. He worked for the C++ team for exactly five years, first on testing the Itanium optimizer and then on the Phoenix compiler platform. He left in 2007 to become a PM on the CLR team (the C# runtime). Andrew left that job about two years ago and through the magic of corporate reorgs ended up as the C++ compiler PM. In his role at Microsoft Andrew pays attention to pretty much everything without a GUI: the compiler front end/parser, code analysis, and a little bit to the optimizer. He also owns the tools acquisition story—such as the VC++ Build Tools SKU and updating to latest daily drops through NuGet—and Clang/C2. The Clang/C2 work is what ties Andrew into the Islandwood team, and the code analysis work focuses mostly on the C++ Core Guidelines checkers. News How the Commodore 64 Memory Map Worked FunctionalPlus, a C++ library, now has a (i.a. type based) search website for its over 300 pure and free functions Standardese documentation generator version 0.1 Awesome C++: Curated list of awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraries and resources Andrew Pardoe @apardoe Links C++ Core Guidelines Checkers: Preview of the Lifetime Safety checker Expression SFINAE improvements in VS 2015 Update 3 Standards version switches in the compiler Sponsor Incredibuild
foonathan/memory and standardese
Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Müller to discuss some of his recent blog posts, as well as the foonathan/memory library and the standardese documentation generator. Jonathan is a CS student passionate about C++. In his spare time he writes libraries for real-time applications and games. He is mainly working on foonathan/memory which provides fast and customizable memory allocators that are easily integrated into your own code. Jonathan tweets at @foonathan and blogs about various C++ and library development related topics at foonathan.github.io. The blog posts are well received and often shared in the cpp subreddit or ISO C++. News C++ Core Guidelines Checkers are now in a single Nuget package How to avoid wasting megabytes of memory a few bytes at a time Asynchronous callable wrappers Jonathan Müller @foonathan foonathan::blog() Links You (probably) don't want 'final' classes foonathan/memory foonathan/standardese
CLion
Rob and Jason are joined by Anastasia Kazakova to discuss new features of JetBrains' Clion IDE. A C/C++ fan since university, Anastasia has been creating real-time *nix-based systems and pushing them to production for 8 years. She has a passion for networking algorithms (especially congestion problems and network management protocols) and embedded programming, and believes in good tooling. Now she is a part of the JetBrains team working as a Product Marketing Manager for CLion, a cross-platform C/C++ IDE. News Bjarne Stroustrup C++ Today Fibonacci: You're also doing it wrong In response to: C++ Weekly - Ep 13 Fibonacci: You're Doing It Wrong C++ for Games: Performance. Allocations and Data Locality C++ Tutor - Visualize C++ code execution Anastasia Kazakova @anastasiak2512 Links CLion IDE CLion on Twitter CLion Blog
Runtime Compiled C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Doug Binks from Enkisoftware to discuss Runtime Compile C++. Doug Binks is programming the game Avoyd using Runtime Compiled C++, a technique he co-developed with industry friends; and enkiTS, a lightweight task scheduler. An experienced game developer, Doug was previously Technical Lead of the Game Architecture Initiative at Intel. He has worked in the games industry in roles ranging from the R&D development manager at Crytek to head of studio at Strangelite, as well as lead programmer. An early interest in games development was sidetracked by a doctorate in Physics at Oxford University, and two post-doctoral posts as an academic researcher in experimental nonlinear pattern formation, specializing in fluid mechanics. His fondest childhood memories are of programming games in assembly on the ZX81. News Jacksonville C++ Core Language Meeting Report Micro benchmarking libraries for C++ Doctest Andrei Alexandrescu on C++ Concepts Doug Binks @dougbinks Doug Binks Github Links Runtime Compiled C++ Rapid Development with Runtime Compiled C++ Enkisoftware
Conan
Rob and Jason are joined by Diego Rodriguez-Losada from Conan to discuss the new C++ Package Manager. Diego's passions are robotics and SW development. He has developed many years in C and C++ in the Industrial, Robotics and AI fields. He was also a University (tenure track) professor till 2012, when he quit academia to try to build a C/C++ dependency manager, co-founded startup biicode, since then mostly developing in Python. Now he is working as freelance and having fun with conan.io. News Robot: Native Cross Platform System Automation Help improve DuckDuckGo's C++ searches! Stay up to date with the Visual C++ tools on NuGet Diego Rodriguez-Losada @diegorlosada Diego Rodriguez-Losada's website Links Conan: C/C++ Package Manager Conan Blog I've Just Liberated My Modules
Distributed Computing
Rob and Jason are joined by Elena Sagalaeva from Microsoft's Bing Ads team to discuss Distributed Computing with C++. Elena Sagalaeva is a Russian-born professional C++ developer since 2000. She was primarily a game developer working both for various studios and as an indie developer. She grad uated from the industry while being a tech lead at the head of a small dev team. Elena currently lives in U.S. with her family and works at Microsoft in Bing Ads. Her current interests focus on large scale distributed systems and the development of the C++ language. She has a popular blog on C++ in Russian and she is the author of the famed C++ Lands map. News Introducing the C++ Core Guidelines Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting pybind11: Seamless operability between C++11 and Python Elena Sagalaeva Elena Sagalaeva's Blog @alenacpp Links Nexus Wireless Silent Mouse C++11 Lands Map
VS for Linux
Rob and Jason are joined by Ankit Asthana to discuss new features for Visual Studio and VS Code including new support for Linux developers. Ankit Asthana is a program manager working in the Visual C++ Cross-Platform space. He is knowledgeable in cross-platform technologies, compilers (dynamic and static compilation, optimizer, code generation), distributed computing and server side development. He has in the past worked for IBM and Oracle Canada as a developer building Java 7 (hotspot) and telecommunication products. Ankit back in 2008 also published a book on C++ titled C++ for Beginners to Masters which sold over a few thousand copies. News CppCast Stickers! STL Fixes in VS 2015 Update 2 Runtime Compiled C++ Windows API sets: source of most Dependency Walker glitches Ankit Asthana Ankit on LinkedIn C++ for Beginners to Masters Links /build 2016: What's New with C++ Cross-Platform for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 /build 2016: C++ Discussion /build 2016: Cross-Platform at Microsoft: Xamarin, Cordova, Unity and C++ Panel /build 2016: Top 6 Reasons to Move Your C++ Code to Visual Studio 2015 Visual C++ Blog
Boost Hana
Rob and Jason are joined by Louis Dionne to discuss C++ metaprogramming with Boost Hana. Louis is a math and computer science enthusiast with interest in C++ (meta)programming, functional programming, domain specific languages and related subjects. He is an active member of the Boost community, and recently wrote the Boost.Hana metaprogramming library. News Synth - Semantic syntax highlighting and code hyper-linking tool for C and C++ C++Now 2016 Program Highlights: Performance Talks Logical Expressions in C/C++ Mistakes made by professionals Louis Dionne Louis Dionne's Blog @louisdionne Links Boost Hana C++Now 2016 - Metaprogramming for Dummies C++Now 2016 - Metaprogramming for the Brave CppCon 2015 - C++ Metaprogramming: A Paradigm Shift
Macchina.io
Rob and Jason are joined by Günter Obiltschnig to discuss the macchina.io library for IoT C++ development. Günter is the founder of the POCO C++ Libraries and macchina.io open source projects. He has been programming computers since age 12. In his career he has programmed everything from 8-bit home computers (C64, MSX) to IBM big iron systems (COBOL and JCL, VM/CMS and CICS), various Unix systems, OpenVMS, Windows NT in its various incarnations, the Mac (classic Mac OS and OS X), to embedded devices and iPhone/iPad. He has a diploma (MSc. equivalent) in Computer Science from the University of Linz, Austria. His current main interests are embedded systems, cross-platform C++ development, JavaScript and, foremost, the Internet of Things. When not working, he spends time with his family or enjoys one of his hobbies — sailing, running, swimming, skiing, listening to or making music, and reading. News C++Now less than 20 spots left C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code Awesome Modern C++ C++ Committee to shift focus on important issues CppCon 2016 Call for Submissions Günter Obiltschnig @obiltschnig Günter Obiltschnig Links macchina.io Mastering the IoT with C++ and JavaScript - Meeting C++ 2015
Meeting C++
Rob and Jason are joined by Jens Weller to discuss the Meeting C++ conference and user group community. Jens Weller is the organizer and founder of Meeting C++. Doing C++ since 1998, he is an active member of the C++ Community. From being a moderator at c-plusplus.de and organizer of his own C++ User Group since 2011 in Düsseldorf, his roots are in the C++ Community. Today his main work is running the Meeting C++ Platform (conference, website, social media and recruiting). His main role has become being a C++ evangelist, as this he speaks and travels to other conferences and user groups around the world. News Compiler Bugs found when porting Chromium to VC 2015 Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ Concepts without Concepts Jens Weller @phlox81 Jens Weller LinkedIn Links Meeting C++ Announcing Meeting C++ 2016 Learning C++ Best Practices - Write Simpler, Faster, More Maintainable Code
Stream Processing
Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Beard to discuss Stream Processing and the C++ Raft Library. Jonathan Beard received a BS (Biology) and BA (International Studies) in 2005 from the Louisiana State University, MS (Bioinformatics) in 2010 from The Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Jonathan served as a U.S. Army Officer through 2010 where he served in roles ranging from medical administrator to acting director of the medical informatics department for the U.S. Army in Europe. Jonathan's research interests include online modeling, stream parallel systems, streaming architectures, compute near data, and massively parallel processing. He is currently a Senior Research Engineer with ARM Research in Austin, Texas. News C++ Weekly Clion 2016.1 Q & A: Bjarne Stroustrup previews C+17 Sub-processing with Modern C++ Jonathan Beard @jonathan_beard Jonathan Beard's website Jonathan Beard on GitHub Links RaftLib C++Now - Come Stream with Me: build performant, simple, parallel applications in C++ using RaftLib
Parallel Computing Strategies
Rob and Jason are joined by Dori Exterman to discuss parallel computing strategies and Incredibuild. An expert software developer and product strategist, Dori Exterman has 20 years of experience in the software development industry. As Chief Technical Officer of IncrediBuild, he directs the company's product strategy and is responsible for product vision, implementation, and technical partnerships. Before joining IncrediBuild, Dori held a variety of technical and product development roles at software companies, with a focus on architecture, performance and advanced technologies. He is an expert and frequent speaker on technological advancement in development tools specializing in Embarcadero (formerly Borland) environments, and manages the Israeli development forum for these tools. News Herb Sutter Trip Report Testing GCC in the wild JF Bastien Trip Report - Happy with C++17 Dori Exterman Dori Exterman Links Considerations for choosing the parallel computing strategy - Dori Exterman - Meeting C++ 2015 Incredibuild
Clean Code
Rob and Jason are joined by Arne Mertz to discuss Clean Coding techniques. Arne is a Software Engineer at Zühlke Engineering, a blogger and a clean code enthusiast. He has been maintaining and developing large financial C++ applications for several years. Arne has a diploma in physics and has written some scientific code for his degree courses in Fortran77 and C++ before he started his programming career. Currently he is broadening his view on the software development world by doing test automation, integration, requirements engineering and tooling for a large Java/JavaScript web application. To keep in touch with C++ he continues to write about it on his blog, reads other blogs and watches videos of conference talks. In his free time he sings in a choir together with his wife and enjoys playing video games. He likes to travel a lot, especially tall ship sailing. News Upcoming features in GCC 6 Core C++ lvalues and rvalues Trip Report: C++ meeting at Jacksonville Arne Mertz @arne_mertz Arne Mertz on LinkedIn Links Simplify C++ Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual
Software Defined Visualization
Rob and Jason are joined by Jeff Amstutz to discuss Software Defined Visualization and Intel's SPMD Compiler. Jeff is a Visualization Software Engineer at Intel, where he works on the open source OSPRay project. He enjoys all things ray tracing, high performance computing, clearly implemented code, and the perfect combination of Git/CMake/modern C++. Prior to joining Intel, Jeff was an HPC software engineer at SURVICE Engineering where he worked on interactive ballistic simulation applications for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, implemented using C++, CUDA, and Qt. When he is able, Jeff enjoys academic research in ray tracing and high performance computing, with a specific interest in multi-hit ray tracing algorithms and applications for both graphics 3D rendering and ray-based simulations. In his spare time, Jeff enjoys powerlifting, golf, being an electric guitar nerd, and studying a wide spectrum of music ranging from progressive metal to ambient electronic music. News A bit of background for concepts and C++17 Current Proposals for C++17 Why is more complicated than you think Jeff Amstutz @jeffamstutz Jeff Amstutz on LinkedIn Jeff Amstutz on GitHub Links SDVis OSPRay Intel SPMD Program Compiler
Hybrid C++/Javascript apps
Rob and Jason are joined by Sohail Somani to discuss building hybrid apps with Javascript and C++. Sohail Somani is a contract cross-platform application developer who has been working in C++ and Python for over 10 years. He has worked in a variety of fields such as computer graphics, C++ compilers, finance and plain old desktop apps. Sohail's obsession with (or hate of) time tracking led him to create Worklog Assistant, a cross-platform time tracker for JIRA, which is in use by more than a thousand companies worldwide. He hopes to one day achieve time tracking nirvana for his users so that he can finally move on to something else. He might be too optimistic... Otherwise, Sohail is a full-time, work-at-home dad of 2 since 2007. He enjoys playing hockey and listening to rap music. You can contact him at hello@sohailsomani.com - but he doesn't recommend that you visit the domain. News C++Now Accepting Student/Volunteer Applications CppCon 2016 Registration Khronos Releases Vulkan 1.0 Specification Experimental Boost Dependency Injection A bit of background for the operator dot proposal Sohail Somani Sohail Somani Links Worklog Assistant Degreed