Noam and I delivered on Tuesday a joint session called Everything New in C++ at the SELA Developer Practice . It’s been a really fun session to work on, even though it was also a cold reminder how easy it is to forget “The C++ Way” when you stay away for a little while. The new C++ standard is not just a set of minor additions to the C++ language and libraries—it almost feels like a whole new language, what with the lambda functions, type inference, and rich concurrency libraries. While we were planning...
During the last couple of months, I have been updating the materials of the Developing Windows Concurrent Applications course. It is now an up-to-date four day ILT with lots of labs, demos, design patterns, and other practical materials to help C++ developers write their next great concurrent application for Windows. The target audience is C++ programmers with 1-2 years of experience writing Windows applications, but who haven’t necessarily seen how to create threads, queue work to the thread pool...