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CPPCON2020 Plenary Session Review: Performance Matters

Posted on October 15, 2020

This was my favorite session. I must confess that I’ve seen it three times, and had the time to go slowly over the topic discussed: performance. Emery Berger needs no introduction. Just check his LinkedIn profile, but just in case, … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Back to Basics: Concurrency

Posted on October 13, 2020

Arthur O’Dwyer’s session is a lap around the concurrency facilities present in C++, starting with C++11. He starts the session with a gentle introduction to concurrency and parallelism pre-C++11 and walks you towards the memory model present in Modern C++, … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Test Driven C++

Posted on October 12, 2020

I was interested in this talk by Phil Nash to see his approach with C++. TDD is an approach that, as it states it is test driven (and Phil clarifies that it is different from test first). Saying that, there … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Retiring the Singleton Pattern: Concrete suggestions for what to use instead

Posted on October 6, 2020

The Singleton design pattern has been discussed ad naseaum over the years. Peter Muldoon starts with the motivation for this talk: an occurrence of Singleton in the workplace, oh my! The premise of the talk, is not whether to keep … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Back to Basics: Class Layout

Posted on September 25, 2020

There are two types of knowledge: timely and timeless. Knowing how your types are laid out onto physical hardware is programmer’s gold and it is timeless knowledge. It never leaves you. I would recommend strongly this talk if you work … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: The Future of C++ Parallel and Concurrency Safety Guidelines

Posted on September 25, 2020

“I test, therefore I exist.” Paraphrasing René Descartes, what do you do if you’ve been conditioned from your engineering “birth” to test, and test everything. This session is a fit for you if you program systems that require safety as … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: The Hidden Secrets of Move Semantics

Posted on September 23, 2020

I “virtually” attended this session and followed it fully, and went through it again to write this short session review. But then, I’m biased. Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Collaborative Development with Visual Studio Code

Posted on September 23, 2020

Julia Reid walks through three main topics in this entertaining session about Visual Studio Code: the Visual Studio Code, CMake and vcpkg trifecta, remote development, including containers, and collaboration using LiveShare. Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Back To Basics: The Structure of a Program

Posted on September 23, 2020

Bob Steagall will walk you through the anatomy of a C++ program, explaining each of the parts. If you want to make sense of it all, check out this talk. Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Back to Basics: The Abstract Machine

Posted on September 22, 2020

If you’ve been flirting with C++, and are past the customary “Hello, world!” program, have been programming for a few months, but want to commit to a serious relationship, then this talk is for you. Bob Steagall masterfully walks you … Continue reading →

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