Earlier this month, I announced in my GoingNative talk C++11, VC++11 and Beyond that Visual C++ 11 Beta would be available in February. Today’s the day: You can download Visual Studio 11 Beta here. Interestingly, VC++11 is being distributed under a go-live license, which means that Microsoft supports using this compiler to write production code. [...]
Archive for February, 2012
VC++11 Beta Available, Supported For Production Code
Posted in C++, Microsoft on 2012-02-29 | 38 Comments »
James Hamilton on reliability
Posted in Hardware, Software Development on 2012-02-26 | 2 Comments »
Don’t trust hardware or software; then you can build trustworthy hardware and software. James Hamilton on how to write reliable software in a world where anything that can fail, will fail.
Going Native Sessions Online
Posted in C++ on 2012-02-08 | 15 Comments »
Thanks to everyone who came to Redmond and/or watched online to participate in Going Native 2012, last week’s global C++-fest. It was a lot of fun, and generated a lot of useful and important talks that we hope will help continue disseminate understanding of C++11 throughout the global C++ community. All the videos are now [...]
GoingNative 2012: Day 2 Tomorrow (Friday)
Posted in C++ on 2012-02-02 | 5 Comments »
GoingNative 2012 Day 1 is just concluding, and we’re getting ready for Day 2 tomorrow with more C++11 information and panels. Day 2 kicks off tomorrow at 9:30am U.S. Pacific time, with the theme “C++11 Today and Tomorrow.” Day 1’s focus was entirely about C++11 as it exists today; Day 2 is partly about C++11 [...]
GoingNative 2012: Minus 1 Day
Posted in C++ on 2012-02-01 | 2 Comments »
GoingNative 2012 is a global live C++11-fest with unlimited free worldwide attendance – both live and on demand. The goal is to make it interactive, and we’ve asked the speakers to reserve time at the ends of their talks for questions. Tweet questions to #ch9live or #GoingNative and we’ll try and get them asked. To [...]
