CppCast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rob and Jason are joined by Paul Miller to discuss C++ in the Visual Effects Industry. Paul is a partner and lead engineer at Digital Film Tools/Silhouette FX. He has been writing visual effects and image processing software for over 20 years, and has been using C++ for most of that time. He started his love of graphics and digital music on the Amiga in 1986, teaching himself C with K&R and the Amiga ROM Kernel manuals. In 1992 he ended up Wisconsin, writing software for the relatively new digital post production industry on Silicon Graphics workstations, and has been writing widely-used tools for that industry since. He uses Qt for cross-platform UI, Python, OpenGL, and OpenCL extensively. He holds a private pilot's license and enjoys going to movies and beer festivals. News JavaCPP A bit of background for the unified call proposal Natvis for C++/CLI Available to Preview in VS2015 Update 2 Paul Miller @fxtech_paul Links Silhouettefx Photo fx (iOS App)

Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Lelbach to discuss High Performance Computing and other C++ topics. Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a US Department of Energy research facility. Working alongside a team of mathematicians and physicists, he develops and analyzes new parallel programming models for exascale and post-Moore architectures. Bryce is one of the developers of the HPX C++ runtime system; he spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative, and has occasionally contributed to the Boost C++ libraries. Bryce is an organizer for C++Now and CppCon conferences and he is passionate about C++ community development. He serves as LBNL's representative to the C++ standards committee. News Can I always depend on return value optimization Compilers and error messages Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest Bryce Lelbach Bryce Lelbach Links Lawrence Berkeley National Lab HPX on GitHub Benchmarking C++ Code @ CppCon 2015 Practical Functional Programming in C++ @ CppCon 2014

Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Godbolt to discuss the online Compiler Explorer project. Matt is a developer at trading firm DRW. Before that he's worked at Google, run a C++ tools company, and spent over a decade in the games industry making PC and console games. He is fascinated by performance and created GCC Explorer, to help understand how C++ code ends up looking to the processor. When not performance tuning C++ code he enjoys writing emulators for 8-bit computers in Javascript. News Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit C++ Language Support for Pattern Matching and Variants VS2015 Update 2's STL is C++17 Feature Complete C++Now 2016 Submission Deadline Matt Godbolt @mattgodbolt Matt Godbolt's blog Links Compiler Explorer x86 Internals for Fun & Profit