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November 19th, 2008 — Things You Never Wanted to Know about Memory Fences — Bartosz Milewski
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Why study fences on an x86, other than to satisfy one’s curiosity? One reason is that, even when you program …
October 15th, 2008 — Concepts in C++0X — Gary Powell
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An introduction to the Standard Library and Concepts in C++0X. A general overview, and a couple of in-depth analyses of how to understand and use this new feature of the language.
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Programming since ‘74, using C …
September 17th, 2008 — Functional Programming with F# — Chris Smith
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With developers reaching the limits for what Object-Oriented programming can do, they are looking for a new programming paradigm to lead to cleaner, more elegant solutions. Functional Programming has been around since the 1930s but has never been …
August 20th, 2008 — Roundtable Meeting — Open Discussion
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This will be an informal discussion over dinner. Come ready to chat and get to know your fellow NWCPP members.
July 16th, 2008 — Roundtable Meeting — Open Discussion
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This will be an informal discussion over dinner. Come ready to chat and get to know your fellow NWCPP members.
June 18th, 2008 — The C++ Memory Model — Bartosz Milewski
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What is a memory model and why does C++ need it so badly? I’ll try to explain both the practical and the theoretical side of things. We’ll look into a few simple multithreaded idioms, sketch the …
May 20th, 2008 — Enforcing Code Feature Requirements in C++ — Scott Meyers
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Functions often depend on particular behavioral characteristics (“features”) of code they invoke. For example, thread-safe code must invoke only thread-safe code if it is to remain thread-safe, and exception-safe code must invoke only exception-safe code. This talk describes …
April 16th, 2008 — Programming Declaratively in C++ Using the Logic Paradigm — Roshan Naik
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The Logic paradigm (LP) is a powerful, Turing-complete programming paradigm that has seen little representation in mainstream languages as compared to the Object-Oriented, Imperative and Functional paradigms. LP is an important approach in Computer Science towards what is …
March 19th, 2008 — shared_ptr, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Resource Management — Stephan T. Lavavej
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shared_ptr is the most powerful addition to the Standard C++ Library since the STL itself. This presentation begins with an overview of shared_ptr’s design and the philosophy behind it. Next, important uses of shared_ptr are explained in …
February 20th, 2008 — Memory Allocation: Either Love It or Hate It. (Or Just Think It’s OK.) — Andrei Alexandrescu
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Memory allocation is a problem so wicked, many people think it’s either solved or unsolvable. This talk goes through the gory details of memory allocation; what the classic designs are; how special handcrafted allocators may improve (or …
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