C++ 11 is a thoroughly modern and productive language, but it is often seen as long in the tooth when it comes to connecting to cloud. In particular, consuming and authoring REST services in…

Modern CPU and instruction set architecture improvements are critical to the performance of software, but it's the compiler that can make your code sing. Come learn how compiler optimizations are…

In his keynote, Herb challenged GN13 attendees to make a UI app from scratch using ISO C++, openFrameworks and/or Cinder libraries. Let's see what they came up with!

In this talk, Ales discusses the evolution of the Windows platform and the story of its development, and the key role that C++ plays in it. In the spirit of "Going Native", the new…

In this talk, Elliot discusses the history of threading in Windows and surveys thread scheduling, threadpool internals, UI thread behavior, the new ASTA UI infrastructure, and the WinRT async pattern.

Modern application development requires asynchronous programming techniques. For C++, this generally involves using libraries employing promises or futures or tasks, a la PPL and std::future.…

Finally! NuGet package management-long reserved for managed developers-is finally here for C/C++ developers! Discover the simplicity of finding and consuming native library packages in NuGet,…

People commonly ask: “If I have a tuple<T...> and a function fun(T...), how do I generically call the function passing the tuple as arguments?” It’s a short piece of quite unusual code.

I’ll share my favorite 10-line piece of C++ code I’ve come across and explain just how amazingly much it does in those 10 lines. And, if that doesn’t fill 20 minutes, I might just share more…

Implementing non-intrusive runtime polymorphic objects with value-semantics, and multiple-undo in 20 minutes.

Attendee-driven Q&A with Day 3 speakers: Herb Sutter, Niklas Gustafsson, Elliot H. Omiya, Sean Parent, Michael Wong, and Eric Brumer.

In order to successfully deliver new and innovative C++ compiler technology on a regular basis, compiler vendors must respond to yearly microprocessor advancements. Additionally, the…

Attendee-driven Q&A with Day 1 and Day 2 speakers: Bjarne Stroustrup, Andrei Alexandrescu, Herb Sutter, Scott Meyers, Chandler Carruth, Sean Parent, Michael Wong, and Stephan T. Lavavej.

When you need a random number, don't call rand() and especially don't say rand() % 100! This presentation will explain why that's so terrible, and how C++11's <random> header can make…

“The time has come,” the ISO said, “To talk of many things: Of move-capture—and literals— Of making lambdas sing— And why deduction is so hot— And if digits should grow wings?” So have you heard of…

Last year I described C++ as bearing the cautionary label ‘Here Be Dragons.’ And yet we’re all still writing C++ because it is the best programming language for the problems we face.…

Herb Sutter, language architect of Visual C++ and Chairman of the ISO C++ Committee, opens Day 2 with a brand new talk, "One C++".

After years of intensive study (first of C++0x, then of C++11, and most recently of C++14), Scott thinks he finally has a clue. About the effective use of C++11, that…

C++ has powerful rules for dealing with low-level program structure. Before a program is ever executed, the compiler determines valuable information about every expression in the source code.…

Contemporary computer architectures make it possible for slow code to work reasonably well. They also make it difficult to write really fast code that exploits the CPU amenities to their fullest. And…

C++11 is being deployed and the shape of C++14 is becoming clear. This talk examines the foundations of C++. What is essential? What sets C++ apart from other…

A look at many of the new features in C++ and a couple of old features you may not have known about. With the goal of correctness in mind, we’ll see how to utilize these features to create…