A video interview with Michael Wong
published at 27.07.2014 18:18 by Jens Weller
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Two years of Meeting C++!
published at 03.07.2014 16:02 by Jens Weller
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Two years ago Meeting C++ started, what was once a dream is now a reality. The conference has grown in those 2 years from 150 people to 300. But Meeting C++ is more then just a conference, in this time various C++ User Groups were started all over Europe, and a European network for C++ has started growing.
C++Now 2014 trip report
published at 22.05.2014 19:08 by Jens Weller
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Like in the past 2 years, I've been traveling to C++Now in 2014. This years conference started a little different from the past years, but offered then again a lot of high quality C++ content. What makes this conference so great is the talks and conversations over a week. Also with 150 its the right size for this location to meet with most people. Also its now two years, that the idea for the Meeting C++ conference was born in Aspen.
A look at Qt 5.3
published at 21.05.2014 18:27 by Jens Weller
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Qt 5.3 just got released. This version is bringing mostly improvements and a few new things. Some of the new features are only available for the Qt Enterprise version. Also QtCreator 3.1.1 is included. Qt has become really successfull, the previous version Qt 5.2 has over one million downloads.
Qt & JSON
published at 30.04.2014 20:09 by Jens Weller
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Writing a bar graph widget in Qt
published at 26.04.2014 23:20 by Jens Weller
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Today I had a little fun with Qt and wrote a widget for displaying a bar graph. I have two different situations where I need the bar graph in my back end: displaying the votes a single talk got, and displaying one big bar graph of all the talks.
Writing a small voting tool in Qt
published at 17.04.2014 20:41 by Jens Weller
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I've just written this afternoon a small tool for the talk-vote for Meeting C++ 2014. As the call for papers ends on Sunday, the voting comes closer. Last year only a few people on the program committee could vote, this year its going to be around 300. This is 10 times more then last year. In this way I want to give the audience a chance to influence the program. I'll get into the voting details in the last paragraph.
C++ Status
published at 27.03.2014 16:30 by Jens Weller
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So, for one year I've been reading Proposals for the C++ Committee, some thoughts on where its going, and where its currently at. And now that C++14 is in its final draft state, also a look into the Standards beyond C++14.
0xBADC0DE - My talk at C++NOW 2014
published at 21.03.2014 12:01 by Jens Weller
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C++ and the Google Summer of Code
published at 01.03.2014 23:03 by Jens Weller
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Looking at C++14
published at 14.03.2014 16:12 by Jens Weller
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A few weeks ago the C++ committee meeting in Issaquah (WA;USA) ended, its most important result: the final draft for C++14, which has been published last week. As I have read through most papers of last and this year, a short overview which papers now have made it into the standard.
Analyzing websites with QtWebkit
published at 21.02.2014 19:11 by Jens Weller
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I just finished a little tool, which needs to analyze websites, in this case mostly blog posts to extract a few fields. I have been working with QtWebkit for this purpose for a while, one larger project I am working on needs it to index certain websites. So, writing this small tool is a good example on how to that with Qt.
shared_ptr addiction
published at 14.02.2014 16:26 by Jens Weller
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I've written earlier this year about smart pointers in C++, today I just would like to write a little more about shared_ptr. Especially about addiction to shared_ptr, and why you should use unique_ptr in C++11.
C++ Papers for Issaquah - Library, Graphics, Networking, Numerics & Undefined Behavior
published at 12.02.2014 21:40 by Jens Weller
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C++ Papers for Issaquah - Library I
published at 11.02.2014 12:53 by Jens Weller
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C++ Papers for Issaquah - Concepts, Database & Evolution
published at 31.01.2014 15:18 by Jens Weller
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C++ Papers for Issaquah - Concurrency
published at 28.01.2014 16:30 by Jens Weller
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C++ in 2014
published at 24.01.2014 19:04 by Jens Weller
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As the year is just a couple of weeks old, what can we expect from C++ in 2014?
An overview on smart pointers
published at 10.01.2014 12:20 by Jens Weller
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My last blog post in 2013 was about the pointer in C++, and how most of its daily usages in C++ is now being replaced by classes replacing or managing the pointer. The last case, the RAII like objects called smart pointers is the topic of this post. I want to give an overview over the choices one can make when using smart pointers.
C++ future and the pointer
published at 20.12.2013 17:21 by Jens Weller
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