Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Blizzard Entertainment to talk about C++ game development and more. Ben started in the games industry in the UK in 1995, when he got hired at Bullfrog straight after graduating from university. While there he worked on several games there like Syndicate Wars and Dungeon Keeper. By the late 1990s he had stopped using C and was allowed to use C++ at work. In 2001 he moved to Kuju Entertainment and did a couple of games on XBox and PS2, then in 2003 he was...
Mar 16, 2017•54 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Moth to talk about the new C++ features of Visual Studio 2017. Daniel Moth joined Microsoft in the UK in 2006, before transitioning to Redmond in 2008 to work as a Program Manager on Visual Studio, which is where he is still working today. Before Microsoft he worked as a software developer in the industry for almost a decade, most of that time building mobile apps. News The C++17 Lands Learn C++ Concepts with Visual Studio and the WSL Partial Ordering: An enigm...
Mar 07, 2017•52 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Odin Holmes to talk about the recent Embedded C++ development conference emBO++. Odin Holmes has been programming bare metal embedded systems for 15+ years and as any honest nerd admits most of that time was spent debugging his stupid mistakes. With the advent of the 100x speed up of template metaprogramming provided by C++11 his current mission began: teach the compiler to find his stupid mistakes at compile time so he has more free time for even more template metapr...
Mar 02, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Björn Fahller to talk about the trompeloeil Mocking Framework for Modern C++ Unit Testing. Björn Fahller is a senior developer at Net Insight, and has been developing software for a living since 1994, mostly embedded programming for communications devices. Björn learned C++ from usenet and the ARM (Annotated Reference Manual) which was the standard before there was a standard. On a hobby basis, Björn likes to find silly solutions to non-problems and to explore effects...
Feb 22, 2017•36 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Allain from Dropbox to talk about Dropbox's Djinni code generator and Alex's book Jumping into C++. Alex Allain is a Director of Engineering at Dropbox. He was one of the first engineers on the Dropbox Business product before leading Dropbox's Product Platform group, whose initiatives includes the Dropbox Sync Engine, shared mobile C++ and developer tools. Alex has run Cprogramming.com since 1998 and is the author of Jumping into C++, a book for new programmers. ...
Feb 15, 2017•47 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Stephan T Lavavej to talk about Microsoft's STL and some of the changes to the Library coming in the VS 2017 release. Stephan T. Lavavej is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, maintaining Visual C++'s implementation of the C++ Standard Library since 2007. He also designed a couple of C++14 features: make_unique and the transparent operator functors. He likes his initials (which people can actually spell) and cats (although he doesn't own any). News CppChat "Th...
Feb 07, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason discuss two weeks worth of C++ news, updates and blog posts. News What's in C++17? CodeChecker Const, Move and RVO Add a const here delete a const there How C++ lambda expressions can improve your Qt code 'yield' keyword to become 'co_yield' in VS 2017 Compiler Explorer now on Patreon JSON for Modern C++ Version 2.1.0 Catch 1.7 Stop calling "Function Objects" "Functors" Meeting C++ 2016 Playlist How to choose good names Links @robwirving @lefticus Sponsor Backtrace JetBrains...
Feb 01, 2017•34 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Vinnie Falco to talk about the Beast HTTP and Web Sockets library. Vinnie Falco started programming on an Apple II+ in 1982. He did significant work on Canvas, an early 1990s desktop publishing program that starting on the Macintosh. A while later he wrote BearShare - a Gnutella compatible file sharing program. After that Vinnie joined up with Ripple, a company that is developing a global financial settlement network built on top of a decentralized cryptocurrency and ...
Jan 17, 2017•43 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow to talk about his role on the C++ Standards Committee's Library Working Group. Marshall is a long-time LLVM and Boost participant. He is a principal engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. in San Diego, and the code owner for libc++, the LLVM standard library implementation. He is also the chairman of the Library Working Group of the C++ standards committee. He is the author of the Boost.Algorithm library and maintains several other Boost libraries. News C++Now 2017 ...
Jan 11, 2017•58 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Brittany Friedman to talk about her accepted C++17 proposal which adds new algorithms and utilities for memory management and the process she went through getting the proposal accepted. Brittany Friedman is a dense collection of matter formed from molecules originating from inside the sun. She currently works as a programmer at Gearbox Software, where she weaves ones and zeroes into intricate little patterns. Her proposal for new memory management algorithms was accep...
Jan 05, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Calabrese to talk about his Regular Void Proposal, template<auto>, the state of Concepts and more. Matt Calabrese is a software engineer working primarily in C++. He started his programming career in the game industry and is now working on libraries at Google. Matt has been active in the Boost community for over a decade, is currently a member of the Boost Steering Committee, and is a member of the Program Committee for C++Now. Starting in the fall of 2015,...
Dec 21, 2016•56 min•Ep 83•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, to talk about updates to the Catch Unit test library and new features coming to CLion and ReSharper for C++. Phil started coding back in the early 80s, on 8-bit home computers: from the ZX-81 to the Commodore 64, in BASIC and assembler. He later moved on to PCs and C++ in the early 90s and, despite forays into other languages, keeps coming back to C++. His career has taken him through domains such as anti-virus, mobile, fina...
Dec 14, 2016•41 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Nicolas Fleury, Technical Architect at Ubisoft Montreal, to talk about the development and performance tuning techniques used at Ubisoft on games like Rainbow Six Siege. Nicolas has 13 years of experience in the video game industry, more years in the software industry in telecoms, in speech recognition and in computer assisted surgery. Technical Architect on Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Siege, he is one of the key Architects behind some collaboration initiatives at Ubiso...
Dec 08, 2016•55 min•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Abel Mathew, Co-Founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O, to talk about the debugging platform and its features for C++ developers. Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency...
Nov 30, 2016•41 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Marjamäki to talk about developing the CppCheck static analysis tool. Daniel lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and son. He has a degree in electronics but has never worked as an electronics engineer. Daniel works as a consultant at Evidente in Sweden which provides consultants and contractors for embedded software development and static analysis. Daniel started Cppcheck almost 10 years ago as a hobby project that he works on in his spare time. Daniel som...
Nov 16, 2016•36 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Odin Holmes to talk about developing for Embedded Microcontrollers with C++ and the Kvasir library. Odin Holmes has been programming bare metal embedded systems for 15+ years and as any honest nerd admits most of that time was spent debugging his stupid mistakes. With the advent of the 100x speed up of template metaprogramming provided by C++11 his current mission began: teach the compiler to find his stupid mistakes at compile time so he has more free time for even m...
Nov 09, 2016•1 hr•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Klaus Iglberger to discuss the Blaze high performance math library. Klaus Iglberger has finished his PhD in computer science in 2010. Back then, he contributed to several massively parallel simulation frameworks and was an active researcher in the high performance computing community. From 2011 to 2012, he was the managing director of the central institute for scientific computing in Erlangen. Currently he is on the payroll at CD-adapco in Nuremberg, Germany, as a sen...
Nov 02, 2016•39 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Dan Saks from Saks & Associates to discuss state of C++ in the embedded development industry. Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, which offers training and consulting in C and C++ and their use in developing embedded systems. He has been a columnist for The C/C++ Users Journal, The C++ Report, Embedded Systems Design, embedded.com and several other publications. Dan served as the first secretary of the C++ Standards Committee and contributed to the...
Oct 27, 2016•46 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Jackie Kay from Marble to discuss the use of C++ in the Robotics industry and some of the unique challenges in Robotics development. After spending her childhood wanting to become a novelist, Jackie switched over from writing stories to writing code during college. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and went on to work at the Open Source Robotics Foundation for two years, supporting Gazebo, a physics simulator for robot...
Oct 19, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Kenny Kerr from Microsoft to discuss the C++/WinRT library, previously known as ModernCpp, a standard C++ projection for the Windows Runtime. Kenny Kerr is an engineer on the Windows team at Microsoft, an MSDN Magazine contributing editor, Pluralsight author, and creator of moderncpp.com (C++/WinRT). He writes at kennykerr.ca and you can find him on Twitter at @kennykerr. News VOTE! Support debugging of C++ code with IntelliTrace All CppCon 2016 Videos Are Up! Visual ...
Oct 12, 2016•43 min•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson from Creative Assembly to discuss the work of the SG 14 game dev/low latency group including his ring buffer proposal and more. Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien:Isolation and the upcoming Halo Wars sequel, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especiall...
Oct 07, 2016•52 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Klemens Morgenstern to discuss his experimental changes in boost::dll and his proposed boost::process library. Born in 1988 in Dresden, I have a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Master's Degree in Microsystems & Microelectronics. Fell in Love with C++ while working with embedded systems. Klemens was working full time as a C++-Developer from 2013 until early 2016, and is now starting his own consulting company, trying to bring C++ to C-Programmers. News Opti...
Sep 29, 2016•45 min•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Chandler Carruth from Google, in this live interview from CppCon 2016 Chandler discusses the topics of his two CppCon talks and using Modules at Google. Chandler Carruth leads the Clang team at Google, building better diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase, and is active in the LLVM and Clang open source ...
Sep 25, 2016•48 min•Ep 71•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Titus Winters from Google, about Google's strategies to maintain a 100M line monolithic codebase. Titus Winters has spent the past 4 years working on Google's core C++ libraries. He's particularly interested in issues of large scale software engineer and codebase maintenance: how do we keep a codebase of over 100M lines of code consistent and flexible for the next decade? Along the way he has helped Google teams pioneer techniques to perform automated code transformat...
Sep 15, 2016•43 min•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Miodrag Milanovic to discuss his work on the MAME emulation project, its history and moving the MAME codebase from C to C++. Born in 1978, living in Novi Sad, Serbia. Proud husband and father of two. Started professional programming career in year 2000 working in Java, C# and of course C and C++ for various international customers. From 2012 coordinator of MAME emulation project, pushing hard in modernization of two decade old code. News NativeJIT a C++ to x64 JIT use...
Sep 07, 2016•56 min•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 68 of CppCast recorded September 1st 2016 News Triangle C++ Developers Group C++ Slack Group How C++14 and C++17 help to write faster (and better) code Range-v3 on MSVC is Available on GitHub Modern CMake Slides How many x86 instructions are there? Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ PVS-Studio confesses its love for Linux Succeeding with ClangFormat August Update for the Visual Studio Code C++ extension C++ 14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS 15 Preview 4 Links @robwirving @lefticus...
Sep 01, 2016•36 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Stephen Kelley to discuss his work on the CMake Server project which will enable advanced tooling for CMake. Stephen Kelly first encountered CMake through working on KDE and like many C++ developers, did his best to ignore the buildsystem completely. That worked well for 4 years until 2011 when the modularization of KDE libraries led to a desire to simplify and upstream as much as possible to Qt and CMake. Since then, Stephen has been responsible for many core feature...
Aug 10, 2016•46 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Afanasiev to discuss his work on the Salvus library used for performing full-waveform inversions. Michael Afanasiev is currently working on his PhD in Geophysics. He became interested in programming and high performance computing during his BSc in Computational Physics, playing around with simulations of star formation. After a brief attempt to lead a roguish and exciting lifestyle as a field Geophysicist, he was brought back to the keyboard during a MSc, wher...
Aug 03, 2016•45 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Bentley to discuss plf::colony<> and plf::stack<> and some of their advantages over std::vector<> and std::stack<>. Matt Bentley was born in 1978 and never recovered from the experience. He started programming in 1986, completing a BSc Computer Science 1999, before spending three years working for a legal publishing firm, getting chronic fatigue syndrone, quitting, building a music studio, recovering, getting interested in programming agai...
Jul 28, 2016•45 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast Rob and Jason are joined by Gabriel Dos Reis, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft to discuss C++ Modules. Gabriel Dos Reis is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. He is also a researcher and a longtime member of the C++ community. His research interests include programming tools for dependable software. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Dos Reis was a recipient of the 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER award for h...
Jul 21, 2016•53 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast 
