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Rob and Jason are ed by Nicolas Lazaraff to discuss the current state of VR development with C++. Nick is a VR/AR engineer who is ionate about bridging the interface between computers and humans. Currently he's VP of Software Development at OTOY focusing on VR and AR ("mixed/digital reality"). He was a cofounder of everyAir, a pioneering P2P game streaming application which was later acquired. Before that he worked at Microsoft on Office 2010 and 2013. News Stack, Heap, Pool Dependency Injection in C++ using Variadic Templates Nicolas Lazaraff nzff.net Links pCon: C++ for cross-platform VR development OTOY & Oculus: Render the Metaverse Oculus Connect Keynote: Future of VR Down the VR rabbit hole: Fixing judder  

Rob and Jason are ed by Scott Meyers to discuss the Effective C++ book series. Scott Meyers has been working with C++ since 1988. He’s the author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL, and his most recent book, Effective Modern C++. For 25 years, he’s delivered C++ training to clients worldwide. He once lectured about C++ on a brass-railed nightclub stage while the audience sat at cocktail tables. News AWS SDK for C++ Thoughts on the Vagaries of C++ Initialization Scott Meyers @Scott__Meyers The View From Aristeia Links Effective Modern C++ Scott Meyers Videos Scott Meyers Training The Evolving Search for Effective C++ DConf 2014 - The Last Thing D Needs  

Rob and Jason are ed by Brett Hall to discuss Software Transactional Memory. Brett Hall is the lead engineer on Dynamics, a desktop application that collects and analyzes data from the light scattering instruments built by Wyatt technology. Prior to ing Wyatt, Brett worked in web application development, remote sensing, and spent a summer in the games industry. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Part of his research work involved using C++ to solve the PDE systems generated by the rest of the research. All told he’s been using C++ for around 20 years now. These days the bulk of his programming interest is in concurrency and parallelism. When not programming he’s usually hanging out with his family and/or mountain biking. News pCon call for additional content Served: A C++11 RESTful web server library Modern C++ for the Windows Runtime now available Brett Hall @bretthall Backwards Incompatibilities Links pCon 2015 - Transactional Memory in Practice pCon 2014 - Software Transaction Memory, For REals ISO C++ Paper - Industrial Experience with Transactional Memory at Wyatt Technology  

Rob and Jason are ed by Edouard Alligand to discuss the use of C++ template metaprogramming in real world projects.   Edouard is an experienced kernel programmer, but has spent the last several years working on the hot topic of next-generation databases at software publisher quasardb. He has a strong background in low level programming, beginning with his first programming language: Z80 assembly.  Edouard is a C++ enthusiast with a strong taste for template metaprogramming, generic programming, and you're not doing it right if the compiler doesn't crash programming. News C++ Hints C++ Abstraction Penalty: Idiomatic vs Raw How rvalue/lvalue/xvalue got their names Edouard Alligand @edouarda14 Edouard Alligand's GitHub Links pCon 2015 - How I stopped worrying and love metaprogramming pCon 2014 - Edouard Alligand Multiplatform C++ Brigand Library QuasarDB Blog QuasarDB Website  

Rob and Jason are ed by Nicolas Guillemot to discuss the ongoing work of the GameDev and Low Latency C++ Study Group.   Nicolas Guillemot started studying C++ and OpenGL to make games, and fell in love with them. He enjoys participating in game jams, and has had the opportunity to work in some game development studios: Inlight Entertainment, and Electronic Arts. He is currently taking a break from finishing a bachelor's in software engineering to work at Intel, doing mostly graphics-related work to help game developers take advantage of Intel GPU features. News Biicode (just the company) post-mortem Visual Studio Projects that Just Keep Rebuilding Boost 1.59 Nicolas Guillemot @nlguillemot Nicolas Guillemot's GitHub Links SG14 - Game Dev and Low Latency Google Group WG21-SG14 GitHub pCon 2015 - The Birth of SG14 On Games(SG14) and TM(SG5) from The View at the May 2015 C++ Standard meeting in Lenexa  

Rob and Jason are ed by David Stone to discuss his bounded integer library.   David Stone has spoken at C++Now and Meeting C++. He is the author of the bounded::integer library: http://doublewise.net/c++/bounded/ and has a special interest in compile-time code generation and error checking, as well as machine learning. He owns DoubleWise C++ Consulting, providing on-site training with an emphasis on performance and correctness. He also works at Markit integrating real-time financial data. He once wrote an optimizing compiler that solved the halting problem, and is just waiting for it to finish compiling his program. News What do you want to see in VS2015 Update 1 New Clion 1.1 EAP pCon 2015 Program Additions David Stone David Stone on StackOverflow doublewise.net Links C++ Bounded Integer Library C++Now 2014 - Removing Undefined behavior from integer operations Meeting C++ 2014 - Writing robust code C++Now 2015 - Functions want to be free C++ Truths: Want speed? Use constexpr meta-programming!      

  Rob and Jason are ed by James McNellis to discuss new features for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2015 and changes made to the C runtime. James McNellis is a senior engineer on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft, where he works on C++ libraries.  He’s spent the past three years working on a major redesign and refactoring of the Visual C++ C Runtime, which culminated in the release of the Universal CRT with Windows 10 and  Visual Studio 2015.  He occasionally speaks at C++ conferences and was at one time a prolific C++ contributor on Stack Overflow. News C++'s rule of zero pCon 2015 Program Setup Changes in VS2015 Affecting C++ Developers James McNellis @JamesMcNellis James McNellis' Home Page James McNellis on StackOverflow Links Visual Studio 2015 RTM is now available Introducing the Universal CRT pCon 2014: Stefanus DuToit "Hourglass Interfaces for C++ APIs" MVA Course: C++ A General Purpose Language and Library Jump Start The Visual C++ Team is hiring!  

Rob and Jason are ed by Steve Klabnik to discuss the history of the Rust language and some of its key features.   Steve Klabnik is a Ruby and Rails contributor, member of the Rust core team, and a hypermedia enthusiast. He's the author of "Rust for Rubyists," "Rails 4 in Action," and "Deg Hypermedia APIs."   When Steve isn't coding, he enjoys playing the Netrunner card game. News Get rid of those boolean function parameters Concepts TS voted out (in) Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik Steve Klabnik's Home Page Steve Klabnik's GitHub Links The Rust Programming Language  

Rob and Jason are ed by JF Bastien to discuss WebAssembly. JF Bastien is a compiler engineer and tech lead on Google’s Chrome web browser, currently focusing on performance and security to bring portable, fast and secure code to the Web. JF is a member of the C++ standards committee, where his mechanical engineering degree serves little purpose. He’s worked on startup incubators, business jets, flight simulators, Us, dynamic binary translation, systems, and compilers. News C++ compile-time TETRIS C++ compiler front-end fixes in VS 2015 A variant for the everyday Joe JF Bastien @jfbastien JF Bastien's Github Links WebAssembly on Github C++ on the Web: ponies for developers without pwn'ing s  

Rob and Jason are ed by Aleksandar Fabijanic to discuss the C++ Portable Components project.   Alex holds two undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering from Faculty of Engineering (University of Rijeka, Croatia) and the master's degree in software engineering from Citadel Graduate College in Charleston, South Carolina. Alex is a IEEE Computer Society Certified Software Development Professional. He's been seriously programming computers since 1992 and developing steel manufacturing automation and process control software using C and C++ since 1998. He used to compete in rowing on World Championship/Olympic Games level. Nowadays, he spends his free time reading, exercising and occasionally woodworking.   News Format Specifiers Checking CrystaX NDK 10.2.0 w/ Boost 1.58.0 and Obj-C v2 To Make The Most Money As A Programmer, Learn This Language Aleksandar Fabijanic @0x00FA Aleksandar's Github Links POCO Project POCO on Github Macchina.io  

Richard Thomson is a ionate software craftsman.  He has been writing C programs since 1980, C++ programs since 1993 and practicing test-driven development since 2006.  For 10 years, Richard was a Microsoft MVP for Direct3D, Microsoft's native C++ API for 3D graphics. His book on Direct3D is available as a free . Prior to that, Richard was a technical reviewer of the OpenGL 1.0 specification. He is the director of the Computer Graphics Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah and currently works at DAZ 3D writing 3D modeling software in C++. Recently, Richard has added the C++ language track to exercism.io and has been working on adding refactoring tools to the clang tool suite. News C++11/14/17 Features In VS 2015 RTM Futures for C++11 at Facebook A Conclusion to Accelerating Your Build with Clang Live Webinar: A Tour of Modern C++ Richard Thomson @legalizeadulthd Richard Thomson's blog Richard Thomson's Github Links Utah C++ s Group Create your own Refactoring Tool in Clang pCon 2014: Matt Hargett "Common-sense acceleration of your MLOC build"  

News Bloomberg C++ Challenge for Chance to Attend pCon Time to get moving C++ and Facebook Moments: Facebook code blog, Techworld Interactive C++11 memory model: visualize the execution orders of multithreaded program Urho3D - C++ game engine with HTML5 examples Piranha is a C++11 based computer algebra library From ASM.js to WebAssembly Webinar: A Tour of Modern C++ Hitler on C++17 (Downfall Parody) Links @robwirving @lefticus  

Rob and Jason are ed by Niall Douglas to discuss best practices for C++ 11/14 libraries.Niall Douglas is a consultant for hire, is one of the authors of proposed Boost.AFIO and is currently the primary Google Summer of Code for Boost. He is an Researcher with the Waterloo Research Institute for Complexity and Innovation at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and holds postgraduate qualifications in Business Information Systems and Educational and Social Research as well as a second undergraduate degree double majoring in Economics and Management. He has been using Boost since 2002 and was the ISO SC22 (Programming Languages) mirror convenor for the Republic of Ireland 2011-2012. He formerly worked for BlackBerry 2012-2013 in their Platform Development group, and was formerly the Chief Software Architect of the Fuel and Hydraulic Test Benches of the EuroFighter defence aircraft. He is a published author in the field of Economics and Power Relations, is the Social Media Coordinator for the World Economics Association and his particular interest lies in productivity, the causes of productivity and the organisational scaling constraints which inhibit productivity.Newsconstexpr Complete For VS 2015 RTM: C++11 compiler, C++17 STLC++ in the modern worldWhy C++17 is the new programming language for games I wantNiall Douglas@ned14Niall Douglas' blogLinksBest Practice For C++ 11/14 LibrariesBoost.AFIOBoost.APIBind

Rob and Jason are ed by Sean Parent to talk about his recent C++Now! talk where he presented a new futures library.Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe’s mobile digital imaging group. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he ed as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.NewsAndroid Studio introduces C++ in v1.3 previewC++11 Port of Docopt, a command-line argument parserGoing Native 38 Updates from Lenexa, future of C++17Announcing C++Now 2016 and Best Session winnersSean Parent@seanparentSean Parent's GithubLinksSTLab GithubC++ SeasoningInheritance Is The Base Class of EvilSponsorsListen to this episode for a special offer for JetBrains' C++ tools!pCon 2015 Early Bird Registration

Rob and Jason are ed by Phil Nash to talk about C++ Unit Testing with Catch.Phil is a semi-independent software developer, coach and consultant - working in as diverse fields as finance, agile coaching and iOS development. A long time C++ developer he also has his feet in C#, F#, Objective-C and Swift - as well as dabbling in other languages. He is the author of several open source projects - most notably Catch: a C++-native test framework.NewspCon 2015 Registration OpenCling Aims to Provide a High Performance C++ REPLC++Now 2015 Program is onlineC++Now 2015 PresentationsC++ Now Youtube ChannelNew C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operatorsPoll: What C++ Testing Framework do you use?Phil Nash@phil_nashLevel of IndirectionExtra Level of IndirectionLinksCatchMeetingp talk on CatchISO C++ Standard Discusson on NamesC++ Extension MethodsSponsorsJetBrains: Listen to this episode for a special offer for JetBrains' C++ tools!pCon: 2015 Call for Submissions

Rob and Jason are ed by Kenny Kerr to talk about Modern C++ for the Windows Runtime. Kenny also shares his thoughts on printf and tells us about his new Pluralsight course.Kenny Kerr is a computer programmer and recognized expert in Windows operating system development and programming languages. Kenny has published numerous articles about the Windows operating system, network security, and C++ for MSDN Magazine as well as other publications. Microsoft has recognized Kenny’s expertise in network and operating system security with the Microsoft MVP Award for security. He has also held the Microsoft MVP Award since 2007 for his contributions to the C++ development community.NewsThoughts about C++17 (Bjarne Stroustrup)C++17 progress updateHPX and the C++ StandardKenny Kerr@kennykerrKenny Kerr's BlogLinksModern C++ for the Windows RuntimeSQLite with Modern C++ (Free Pluralsight Course)Kenny Kerr's Pluralsight coursesSponsorsJetBrains: Listen to this episode for a special offer for JetBrains' C++ tools!pCon: 2015 Call for Submissions

Rob and Jason are ed by Robert Ramey to talk about the future of the Boost C++ Libraries.Robert Ramey is a freelance Software Developer living in Santa Barbara, California. His long and varied career spans various aspects of software development including business data processing, product, embedded systems, custom software, and C++ library development. Lately, he has been mostly interested in C++ library design and implementation related to Boost. He is the author and maintainer of the Boost Serialization library and Boost library incubator.NewsBoost XP Breaking changes in Visual C++Examples of Best Practices for C++ 11/14 LibrariesRobert RameyRobert Ramey Software DevelopmentLinksBoost 2.0 session at C++Now!Boost Library IncubatorSponsorsJetBrains: Listen to this episode for a special offer for JetBrains' C++ tools!pCon: 2015 Call for Submissions

Rob and Jason are ed by Roland Bock to talk about sqlpp11 and some of Rolands ideas for the future of C++.Roland Bock is Head of Development at PPRO Financial Ltd, an FCA regulated e-Money institute offering prepaid MasterCard card programs and comprehensive financial solutions for international electronic payment transactions. Since 2008 he has been using SQL in C++. Being unhappy with the string-based approach of most SQL libraries, he decided to do something about it and developed a type-safe EDSL for SQL in C++: sqlpp11. In his spare time Roland is working on sqlpp11, experimenting with Concepts Lite and trying to write a proposal about compile-time configurable names for C++ standard. He lives and codes in Munich ().NewsC++ 11/14/17 Features in VS 2015RCC++ 11 Constant Expressions in VS 2015 RCResumable Functions in C++C++ highlights and more of GCC 5.1Roland BockRoland Bock on githubThoughts by Roland BockLinkssqlpp11Dreaming of NamesISO C++ Standard Discusson on NamesSponsorsJetBrains: Listen to this episode for a special offer for JetBrains' C++ tools!pCon: 2015 Call for Submissions

Rob and Jason are ed by Hartmut Kaiser to talk about Asynchronous Programming and the HPX framework.Hartmut Kaiser is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. At the same time, he holds the position of a senior scientist at the Center for Computation and Technology at LSU. He received his doctorate from the Technical University of Chemnitz () in 1988. He is probably best known through his involvement in open source software projects, mainly as the author of several C++ libraries he has contributed to Boost, which are in use by thousands of developers worldwide. He is a voting member of the ISO C++ Standards Committee and his current research is focused on leading the STE||AR group at CCT working on the practical design and implementation of the ParalleX execution model and related programming methods. In addition, he architected and developed the core library modules of SAGA for C++, a Simple API for Grid Applications.NewsClion 1.1 roap & ACCU 2015Boost 1.58 a short overviewModule proposal for C++ now at rev 3Hartmut KaiserHartmut KaiserLinksAsynchronous Computation in C++The STE||AR GroupHPX on Github

In this episode Manuel Sanchez s Rob Irving to talk about biicode, the C++ dependency manager and Manuel's Template Metaprogramming Library Turbo.As a CS undergraduate at the University of Madrid (Spain) and self taught C++ programmer, Manuel Sanchez has been working on personal projects related to Modern C++ during his free time, most of them related to template metaprogramming and his own efforts to give high level features for C++ metaprogramming: The Turbo Metaprogramming Library. Manuel has been working for biicode since September 2014, he assist his fellow biis by dealing with C++ idiosyncrasies while manage very successful posts about template metaprogramming and his work on Turbo.NewsCLion 1.0 has finally arrivedVisual C++ tools for Windows 10 TPEric Neibler's Ranges proposalPoll: Have you tried biicode?Manuel Sanchez@Manu343726Blog and PortfolioLinksBiicodeBiicode goes open sourceTurbo