For anyone who’s interested and in the Pacific Northwest area, I’ll be giving a talk at NWCPP on September 19. Without giving too much away, I can tell you it will feature everything from a real rocket launch (well, on video) to a Roman chariot race (well, actually, sort of a simulation of a chariot [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Machine Architecture Talk at NWCPP in September
Posted in Talks & Events on 2007-07-26 | Comments Off
C++ Video Podcasts with Bjarne
Posted in C++ on 2007-07-23 | 1 Comment »
While at Stroustrup & Sutter #3, Bjarne and I took some time out to be interviewed by Ted Neward on behalf of the OnSoftware series from our mutual publisher Addison Wesley. We were only half-serious when we asked Ted to turn his I Love C# shirt inside out, but he did it — what a sport! Two [...]
Andy Koenig’s C++ Blog, and Parrots
Posted in C++ on 2007-07-18 | 1 Comment »
I recently discovered that Andy Koenig has a blog on DDJ (recommended). For those keeping score at home, Andy is one of the folks that Scott Meyers named as his "most important C++ people ever" last year. Andy is #2 (in chronological order), after Bjarne Stroustrup of course. On a whimsically related note, I also [...]
Cashman on Alli
Posted in Friday Thoughts on 2007-07-05 | Comments Off
Pat Cashman is a popular humorist up here in the Pacific Northwest area. I think of him as our other-end-of-the-country version of Dave Barry (and if you like Dave, you’ll like Pat). This week, he published this hilarious piece in our local community newspaper. Enjoy!
EC: A new column on Effective Concurrency
Posted in Concurrency on 2007-07-03 | 3 Comments »
I’m pleased to say that I’m starting a new column on Effective Concurrency in DDJ, and the first installment just went live. It’s titled "The Pillars of Concurrency" and tries to make the case that we need to have a consistent mental model for talking about concurrency issues if we’re going to make any serious [...]
Name Lookup Uses the Static Type
Posted in C++ on 2007-07-02 | 3 Comments »
I recently received the following question in email from Vijay Visana. I’ve slightly edited it for brevity and/or flow. Vijay writes: While tinkering with multiple-inheritance in C++ I have come across one peculiarity that baffled me a lot. A derived (multiple inheritance – no virtual base class) class having all pure abstract base classes can have [...]
