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 [...]
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Going Native Sessions Online
Posted in C++ on 2012-02-08 | 3 Comments »
GoingNative 2012: Day 2 Tomorrow (Friday)
Posted in C++ on 2012-02-02 | 3 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 [...]
GoingNative 2012: Minus 3 Days
Posted in C++ on 2012-01-30 | 6 Comments »
Recap: GoingNative 2012 is a global live C++11-fest that kicks off this Thursday at 9:30am U.S. Pacific time. 350 live in the room. Unlimited free worldwide attendance – both live and on demand. Note that because of technical limitations, watching the livestream requires Silverlight (watching the stored videos later on demand will not). Silverlight is [...]
GoingNative 2012: Minus 5 Days
Posted in C++ on 2012-01-28 | 4 Comments »
Recap: GoingNative 2012, the world’s first globally simulcast C++ convention, starts with Bjarne Stroustrup’s opening keynote “C++ Style” this Thursday at 9:30am U.S. Pacific time (time zone converter). In-room attendance is sold out, but worldwide attendance is unlimited and free – all sessions will be livestreamed, and later after a short processing delay will also [...]
GoingNative 2012: Minus One Week
Posted in C++ on 2012-01-26 | 1 Comment »
GoingNative 2012 is sold out for in-person attendees, but online attendance is free and unlimited – live-stream and on-demand. Watch the main page for links. GoingNative 2012 is a 48 hour technical event for those who push the boundaries of general purpose computing by exploiting the true capabilities of the underlying machine: C++ developers. Distinguished [...]
GotW #103: Smart Pointers, Part 1 (Difficulty: 3/10)
Posted in C++ on 2012-01-20 | 11 Comments »
JG Question 1. When should you use shared_ptr vs. unique_ptr? List as many considerations as you can. Guru Questions 2. Why should you always use make_shared to allocate objects whose lifetimes will be managed by shared_ptr? Explain. 3. What’s the deal with auto_ptr?
GotW #102: Solution
Posted in C++ on 2012-01-20 | Leave a Comment »
The solution to GotW #102 is now live.
C++11 “GoingNative 2012”: Speakers and Sessions
Posted in C++ on 2012-01-16 | 10 Comments »
The speakers and sessions for GoingNative 2012 (Feb 2-3, Redmond WA USA) have now been posted. With the focus squarely on C++11 on all compilers and platforms, I think this is going to be the C++ event of the first half of 2012, and I’m very pleased with the caliber of our speakers and their [...]
Map of C++
Posted in C++ on 2012-01-10 | 12 Comments »
Hilarious and apt. Nice work, Alena and Jim.
