CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined 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 CppCon 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 joined 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 CppCon 2015 Program Setup Changes in Visual Studio 2015 Affecting C++ Developers James McNellis @JamesMcNellis James McNellis's Home Page James McNellis on StackOverflow Links Visual Studio 2015 RTM is now available Introducing the Universal CRT CppCon 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 joined 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 "Designing 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 joined 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, CPUs, 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 users

Rob and Jason are joined 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

Rob and Jason are joined by Richard Thomson to discuss exercism.io and C++ refactoring tools. Richard Thomson is a passionate 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 download. 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++ Users Group Create your own Refactoring Tool in Clang CppCon 2014: Matt Hargett "Common-sense acceleration of your MLOC build"

Rob and Jason discuss recent C++ news and events. News Bloomberg C++ Challenge for Chance to Attend CppCon 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 joined 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 administrator for Boost. He is an Affiliate 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. News constexpr Complete For VS 2015 RTM: C++11 compiler, C++17 STL C++ in the modern world Why C++17 is the new programming language for games I want Niall Douglas @ned14 Niall Douglas' blog Links Best Practice For C++ 11/14 Libraries Boost.AFIO Boost.APIBind

Rob and Jason are joined 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 joined 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. News Android Studio introduces C++ support in v1.3 preview C++11 Port of Docopt, a command-line argument parser Going Native 38 Updates from Lenexa, future of C++17 Announcing C++Now 2016 and Best Session winners Sean Parent @seanparent Sean Parent's Github Links STLab Github C++ Seasoning Inheritance Is The Base Class of Evil Sponsors

Rob and Jason are joined 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. News CppCon 2015 Registration Open Cling Aims to Provide a High Performance C++ REPL C++Now 2015 Program is online C++Now 2015 Presentations C++ Now Youtube Channel New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operators Poll: What C++ Testing Framework do you use? Phil Nash @phil_nash Level of Indirection Extra Level of Indirection Links Catch MeetingCpp talk on Catch ISO C++ Standard Discusson on Names C++ Extension Methods Sponsors