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 versions of the language. There’s Herb Sutter...
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 a network library implementation. At first it made...
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, which was surprising to me because it was...
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 is alive, well, and growing — lots of first...
One of the cooler projects I believe out there in the open source world is Clang — a ground-up implementation of a C/C++ front-end for LLVM. Thanks to a status message by Joel Falcou I looked at the cfe-dev mailing list archive and found this: I decided to see how well clang++ currently does at...
I chanced upon this article that gives a take on the coding guidelines that popular projects post for code portability. In particular, jasper22 says:
This document is quite a briefed [sic] guide to check whether your coding practices in C++ are standard or not and to provide possible fixes for the same...