BeCPP Dinner with Tarek Madkour (March 6, 2013 )

February 13, 2013 Marc Gregoire Events

The next BeCPP event is a dinner with Tarek Madkour. Tarek Madkour is Group Program Manager for the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. Tarek’s team is responsible for delivering the compilers, libraries, runtimes and IDE that enable developers to create great native applications on the Microsoft platforms. Tarek is a tool maker by passion and trade. Ever since joining Microsoft a little over a decade ago, he spent all his time working on the various aspects of native development tools.

This is your chance to speak directly with a program manager from the Microsoft Visual C++ development team. Tarek likes questions/feedback/comments, so bring a lot of them 🙂

The dinner is planned for Wednesday March 6th 2013 at 20:00 in Antwerp; most probably the Burgerij near the MAS ( http://www.burgerij.be/mas.php ). However, the exact location depends on the number of people coming, but it will be in Antwerp for sure.

At this moment we don’t know yet whether the dinner will be sponsored or not, but even if we don’t get sponsoring, that shouldn’t be a show-stopper I hope.

Only a limited number of seats are available. Register here.

Note: The deadline for registrations is February 27!

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Slides of the 4th of February 2013 BeCPP Meeting

February 9, 2013 Marc Gregoire Events

The Belgian C++ Users Group meeting on 4th of February 2013 was a great success. There were around 50 attendees. Thank you everyone for joining us. We would also like to thank Materialise for sponsoring the event by providing the location and catering.

We received some feedback on our survey, and there were some complaints about the fact that there wasn’t a clear schedule for the evening. We really appreciate and listen to the feedback. So, next event will have a clear schedule which will be announced on the blog and on the event invitations, and we will stick to the announced schedule on the day of the event.

If you couldn’t attend the event in person, or if you would like to go over the slides again, you can download them below.

Presentation: “Effective WinRT with C++” by Francisco Almeida

Presentation: “Threading in C++11” by Lieven de Cock
This presentation comes with an archive with all example code shown during the presentation. You can download this archive here.

Presentation: “How much testing is enough – Coverity” by Ian Ashworth

I hope to see you all on future BeCPP events.

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Details of the Next BeCPP UG Meeting (February 4, 2013)

January 8, 2013 Marc Gregoire Events

The next meeting of the Belgian C++ Users Group is planned for Monday February 4th 2013 at 18:30 at Materialise HQ.

Note: The deadline for registrations is January 18!

The agenda is as follows:

• Session 1: Effective WinRT with C++ (Francisco Almeida)
  This will be a brief overview of implementation of Windows Store apps using C++, along with its most useful libraries, new language features and, of course, common pitfalls and traps one may encounter.
  We will go over the multithreaded design of WinRT, and how modern C++ allows us to effectively cope with it, including exception handling. We will, of course, refresh some general knowledge of Windows Store app development, in the perspective of its implementation while using C++.
• Break
• Session 2: Threading in C++11 (Lieven de Cock)
  Threading has been a challenging and non portable job for many years, and it is one of our basic tools for the future. Though several libraries came to aid (POCO / boost / …), now it’s finally part of the language, C++11 is bringing us threading support. In this crash course we will dive into basic uses of std::thread, std::mutex, std::condition_variable, std::atomic, … Life is easier and more portable now, but did we get all we wanted ? And as always, C++ is powerful, providing constructs mere mortals should better not touch, unless you are that 1% of the user base, but most of us are not.
  We will see simple code examples explaining the std::thread basics. So lock your mutex, wait for your condition variable and atomically spin up that thread, C++11 threading is here for you. Thou shall async till eternity, or untill the future has delivered its promise.
• Guided tour of the Materialise facilities.
• Drink

Materialise ( http://materialise.be/ ) is sponsoring this event by providing the location, drinks and catering

The event is free for everyone, but you need to register for it.

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