CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by Marc Valle to discuss Intel's Tamper Protection Toolkit which can be used to protect your C++ application from reverse engineering and tampering. Marc Valle is the technical lead for the Intel (R) Tamper Protection Toolkit. His professional interests include tamper protection, reverse engineering, compilers, security, and privacy. In his free time he can be found staring at the black line at the bottom of the pool preparing for his next competition. News Compilers targeting C Lambdas are dangerous? VS 2015 Update 1 New Experimental Feature MPX Links Intel Tamper Protection Toolkit Intel Tamper Protection Toolkit Getting Started

Rob and Jason are joined by Mark Logan to discuss his experience building a game engine in Javascript and C++. Mark started learning C++ with Borland Turbo C++ in high school, so that he could build video games. After 20 years, he's finally starting to feel like he knows what he's doing. After graduating from Northeastern University's College of Computer Science, Mark spent 7 years at Google, mainly working on internal infrastructure and automation. More recently, he returned to his first love - game programming - and helped found a studio called Artillery. He's currently the tech lead on Artillery's free-to-play RTS, code-named Atlas. He spends his time working on performance optimization, networking, and solving cross-platform development problems. News New cppcheck released How to make your own C++ static analyzer with clang Improving your build times with Incredibuild and VS 2015 Mark Logan @technicaldebtor Links Artillery Artillery Blog

Rob and Jason are joined by Dr. Greg Law to discuss reverse debugging with Undo Software. Dr Greg Law is co-founder and CEO at Undo Software. He has spent nearly 20 years writing systems-level code, including novel kernel designs and networking architectures in academia and at a variety of start-ups. Greg finds it particularly rewarding to turn innovative software technology into “real” business development. He still gets to write some code, although sadly most of his coding these days is done on aeroplanes. Greg lives in Cambridge, England with his wife and two children. News C++ Status at the end of 2015 Starting a tech startup with C++ } // good to go C++Now 2016 Call for Submission Dr. Greg Law @gregthelaw Greg Law's posts on Undo Software's Blog Links Undo Software Jason's photos from Kenya

Rob and Jason are joined by Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente to discuss Transducers and the Atria library. Juanpe is a Spanish software engineer currently based in Berlin, Germany. Since 2011 he has worked for Ableton, where he has helped building novel musical platforms like Push and Live and where he coordinates the "Open Source Guild" helping the adoption and contribution to FLOSS. He is most experienced in C++ and Python and likes tinkering with languages like Haskell or Clojure. He is an advocate for "modern C++" and pushes for adoption of declarative and functional paradigms in the programming mainstream. He is also an open source activist and maintainer of a couple of official GNU packages like Psychosynth which introduces new realtime audio processing techniques leveraging the newest C++ standards. News Going Large Scale with C++ Part 1 Support for Android CMake projects in Visual Studio Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente Juan's website Links CppCon 2015: Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente “Transducers: from Clojure to C++" Atria on GitHub psychosynth Embracing Conway's law Victor Laskin's Blog: C++14 Transducers

Rob and Jason are joined by Jussi Pakkanen to discuss the Mesonbuild multiplatform build system for C++. Jussi Pakkanen got his doctoral degree in computer science from the Helsinki University of Technology in 2006. Since then he has worked on various problem areas ranging from mail sorting to the software stacks of Ubuntu desktop and phone. Most recently he was the SDK lead developer at Jolla. Currently he is open for new development challenges. During his spare time he has been known to be a photographer, movie director, magician, gastronomist, computer game designer and watercolour painter. News Under the Hood: Leap Motion Hackathon's AR Workspace STL Fixes in VS 2015 Update 1 Meeting C++ Lightning talks are now on youtube Jussi Pakkanen Jussi Pakkanen's blog @jpakkane Links Mesonbuild Mesonbuild on GitHub Making build systems not suck

Rob and Jason are joined by Eric Niebler to discuss his work on Ranges and the future of the Standard Library. Eric Niebler is an independent consultant specializing in C++ library development. Currently, he is working on modernizing the C++ standard library and adding support for ranges, funded by the first-ever grant from the Standard C++ Foundation. Previously, Eric was a consultant for BoostPro computing, a member of Microsoft's Visual C++ team, and a Microsoft Researcher before that. In addition, he has several libraries in Boost and is a Boost release manager and steering committee member. Eric has been an active member of the C++ Standardization Committee for well over 10 years. He speaks regularly at C++ conferences around the world. In a previous life, Eric drifted with no fixed address, writing C++ and blog entries from cafes and beaches around the world. Today, Eric is a family man living and working in the glorious Pacific Northwest near Seattle. News Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1 Conan a C/C++ package manager Getting started with Modules in C++ Eric Niebler @ericniebler Eric Niebler's blog Links Range v3 Library C++ Extensions for Ranges CppCon 2015: Eric Niebler "Ranges for the Standard Library"

Rob and Jason are joined by Robert O'Callahan from Mozilla to discuss the RR project. Robert O'Callahan has a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon and did academic research for a while at IBM Research, working on dynamic program analysis tools. At the same time he was contributing to Mozilla as a volunteer, until he switched gears to work full-time with Mozilla; Robert has been working on what became Firefox for over 15 years, mostly on layout and rendering in the browser engine and on related Web standards like CSS and DOM APIs. Lately he's been devoting about half of his time to rr. News Breaking all the Eggs in C++ The wind of change Celebrating 30th anniversary of the first C++ compiler: let's find bugs in it Robert O'Callahan Robert O'Callahan's website @rocallahan Links rr project Mozilla on GitHub

Rob and Jason are joined by Jon Kalb to talk about this year's CppCon, his trip to the Kona standards committee meeting and much more. Jon has been writing C++ for two and half decades and does onsite C++ training. He chairs the CppCon and C++Now conferences and the C++ Track for the Silicon Valley Code Camp. He serves as chair of the Boost Libraries Steering Committee and is a Microsoft MVP. News Using variadic templates cleanly A sad story about get_temporary_buffer C++ and zombies: a moving question Jon Kalb @_jonkalb Exception-Safe Coding in C++ Links CppCon 2016: Announcing 2016 Dates CppCon 2014: Exception Safe Code (Part 1)

Rob and Jason are joined by Dmitri Nesteruk to talk about High Performance Computing and some of the new features coming to CLion and ReSharper for C++. Dmitri Nesteruk is a developer, speaker, podcaster and a technical evangelist at JetBrains. His interests lie in software development and integration practices in the areas of computation, quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. His technological interests include C#, F# and C++ programming as well high-performance computing using technologies such as CUDA. He has been a C# MVP since 2009. News Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Available Reverse Iteration with Range-Based for Loops Interactively create clang-format configurations Dmitri Nesteruk @dnesteruk Dmitri Nesteruk's Pluralsight courses Links Webinar Recording: A Tour of Modern C++ What's New in CLion 1.2 What's New in ReSharper++ High Performance Computing in C++

Rob and Jason are joined by Tobias Hunger to discuss the Qt Creator IDE for C++. Tobias graduated from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany with a degree in computer engineering. Before joining Nokia in 2009 to work on Qt Creator he has been a consultant, specializing in systems administration and later Qt software development. He went with Qt to Digia and now works for The Qt Company in Berlin, Germany.   Tobias has been an open source contributor ever since his student days and is now a maintainer in the Qt project, responsible for the version control plugins in Qt Creator. He also is heavily involved with the project management plugins.   In his spare time he does way to many computer related things, but also manages to read books, go to the movies and play with his son. News First beta release of KDevelop 5.0.0 Microsoft promises Clang for Windows in November Handmade Con 2015 Tobias Hunger @t_hunger Tobias Hunger's Github Links Qt Creator 3.6 Beta1 released Qt