mikhailberis : thoughts

Hiatus and Reflections

C++ Soup! — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:30:00 GMT

So I've left one hanging promise at least fall off my radar -- a manual vtable based implementation of the concept-based polymorphism implementation. As you all have known for a while now I've been working at Google Australia for two years now...(read more)

Value Semantics and Polymorphism

C++ Soup! — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:03:00 GMT

Lately I've been interested in formalising the notion of value semantics for one reason or another. I've been in email conversations with other people who have been interested in making value semantics and value-oriented programming the norm in...(read more)

Musings: Design and Computation

C++ Soup! — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:46:00 GMT

I have a personal theory that the fundamental source of bugs in most software is the impedance mismatch between the notion of design and computation. We as software engineers are torn pulled in usually two seemingly different dimensions -- that of elegance...(read more)

C++11 -- The Time is Now

C++ Soup! — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:38:00 GMT

All the compiler vendors are racing to get C++11 features supported. There's currently a C++ "arms race" that's only benefitting users and the community at large. I don't currently have the time to survey the various language features...(read more)

New C++ Standard, New Focus

C++ Soup! — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:18:39 GMT

Now that the new version of C++, C++11 is out in the wild as an ISO C++ Standard, there’s a renewed focus on getting applications, tools, and books up to date with the new standard. The leaders of the ISO Committee have weighed in on the latest...(read more)

Minus the Header-Only Dogma

C++ Soup! — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:25:40 GMT

I’ve been working on the C++ Network Library for a few years already total but have been on-and-off with it until recently. One of the first decisions that I made in implementing the library was to try and do a header-only approach to implementing...(read more)

What You’ve Missed With C++: 2011 So Far

C++ Soup! — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:18:06 GMT

The past few months have been a jam-packed with a few developments in terms of C++. Not only did C++0x get the almost unanimous nod of the industry to be good enough to be called C++11 but there’s also a few stories that have come out that need...(read more)

C++0x will be C++ 2011

C++ Soup! — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:47:07 GMT

As you might already have heard from other places and read from other sources, the ISO C++ committee has now finally voted to publish the current Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) for the language referred to affectionately as C++0x. This means...(read more)

Broken C++: Old Compilers

C++ Soup! — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:04:02 GMT

Up until recently I’ve only had to deal with standard-compliant C++. I’ve pretty much enjoyed writing C++ code that abides by an accepted and well-defined standard. This means I have been for the most part using most of the standard features...(read more)

Software Engineering and C++

C++ Soup! — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:07:04 GMT

There is a largely unspoken understanding between/among C++ developers that goes a little something like this: “any sufficiently complex problem can be solved by working with the appropriate abstractions”. This is not a hard/fast rule but...(read more)

Agile C++ Development

C++ Soup! — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:46:41 GMT

I haven’t been writing much lately and that’s mostly because I’ve been ramping up work with a new client. That said, I’ve always wanted to write about how to do Agile Software Development with C++, but I didn’t have enough...(read more)

Generic Programming Barriers to Entry

C++ Soup! — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:42:09 GMT

I thought about the subject a little more and tried to look into myself and what was stopping me from learning generic programming earlier in my C++ programming experience. One recent interview I had still sold C++ as an Object Oriented Programming language...(read more)

C++ Hating

C++ Soup! — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:09:12 GMT

I got a chance to read an interesting, well-written, but badly inaccurate and almost exclusively provocative piece of writing over at TechRepublic. The article — like countless articles on the web already — try to predict the demise of C+...(read more)

Memcache++ Version 0.12.1 and Beyond

C++ Soup! — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:30:17 GMT

After a bit of spare time yesterday updating the documentation for another open source project, I went ahead and finished the porting of Memcache++’s response parser to use Boost.Spirit 2.4 (which comes with Boost 1.44.0). The result is then a more...(read more)

BoostCon 2010 Trip Update

C++ Soup! — Mon, 24 May 2010 02:11:31 GMT

Now I’m back in the Philippines and an update has been long overdue. The week of May 9-14 was spent with much enthusiasm and enjoyment meeting with and getting to know the other names in the Boost C++ Library developers mailing list. The community...(read more)