Thinking Outside the Synchronisation Quadrant
Explore concurrency beyond traditional thread synchronization, covering immutability, actors, and alternative patterns for efficient and safe parallel programming in various languages.
Thoughts on Metaclasses - Keynote
Exploración de metaclases en C++: simplificación del código, mejora de la reflexión y potencial para futuras características del lenguaje sin necesidad de nuevos compiladores.
Building a Tech Community in the East from Almost Nothing
Discover how a thriving tech community was built in Norwich, transforming it into a hub for innovation, collaboration, and world-class events. Learn strategies for fostering local tech growth.
The Badlands of C++ - Professional Game Development
Explore C++ usage in game development, covering compilation, STL, Boost, exceptions, and reflection. Gain insights into industry practices and challenges for aspiring and veteran developers.
Would Reserve - Upgrade - Downgrade Methods Improve std::shared_mutex?
Explores potential improvements to std::shared_mutex through 'reserve'/'upgrade'/'downgrade' methods, analyzing performance impacts and discussing the trade-offs of complicating the interface.
Runtime Polymorphism - Back to the Basics
Explore runtime polymorphism in C++, examining alternatives to inheritance-based approaches. Learn about policy-based designs, storage options, and performance optimizations for more efficient and flexible polymorphic code.
The Ongoing Design and Evolution of Cyber-Dojo
Explore the latest developments and ongoing evolution of cyber-dojo, a platform for practicing test-driven development and improving coding skills.
Can I Change My Organisation?
Discover strategies to drive positive change in your organization's software development practices, overcoming obstacles and becoming a catalyst for improvement.
Type Safe C++ - LOL
Explore strong typing in C++ for improved code clarity, bug prevention, and performance. Learn techniques and libraries for creating type-safe alternatives to typedefs.
How Python Wins New Friends
Explore Python's rise to popularity, its user-friendly features, and its impact on programming education and various industries.
These 10 Tricks That Only Library Implementors Know
Discover advanced C++ coding techniques used in standard library implementations, including empty base class optimization, allocator management, and exception safety.
There Is a Better Future
Explore advanced concurrency concepts, including improved futures and CSP channels, for creating efficient parallel task graphs and addressing limitations in std::future.
The Clacks in Discworld and Roundworld
Explore the fascinating parallels between Terry Pratchett's fictional Clacks system and real-world semaphore communication methods from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Finally Executors for C++
Explore C++ executors for asynchronous and parallel programming, covering motivation, requirements, interfaces, and practical examples. Learn about recent proposal developments and interactions with coroutines.
Common Webapp Vulnerabilities and What to Do About Them
Explore common web app vulnerabilities and practical mitigations based on the OWASP Top 10 List, focusing on injection attacks, authentication issues, and data exposure risks.
Read and Write Considered Harmful
Explores differences between reading and writing data across various topics, offering alternative approaches for improved system design and architecture.
C++17 - The Best Features
Explore key improvements in C++17, including core language and library enhancements, with expert insights on the most impactful and useful features for modern C++ development.
Monolithic Delivery
Explores the relationship between software design and delivery, challenging the notion of monolithic architecture and examining the potential misunderstandings in modern software development approaches.
Mocking Frameworks Considered Harmful
Explore test automation challenges, mocking frameworks' drawbacks, and alternative approaches for effective unit testing in C++. Learn refactoring techniques and simpler mocking solutions.
Parallel Design Patterns and Stream Parallelism
Explore parallel design patterns and stream parallelism using GrPPI, an experimental library for expressing parallelism through patterns, with focus on composability and multiple back-end support.
The Incredible Shrinking Standard
Explore C++'s evolution from C++98 to C++17, focusing on feature removals, their impact on the language, and how they shape emerging best practices in programming.