C&B Talk on Perfect Forwarding

I've just posted a description of another presentation I'll be making at C++ & Beyond to the C&B blog.  Like all the other talks at C&B, it's of the all-new, world-debut variety.  The title is Adventures in Perfect Forwarding, and following the link will take you to the blog entry that will tell you all about it.

I continue to hope to see you in Banff in August.

Scott

C&B Talk on C++0x Memory Model

Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu, and I are in the process of fleshing out the technical program for this year's C++ & Beyond, and I've just posted my first session announcement.  The title is "The C++0x Memory Model and Why You Care," and rather than repeat the talk description here, I'll let you follow the link to the C&B blog entry for the details.  This will be a new talk I'm creating specifically for C&B, and it should cover topics of interest to anybody who cares about multithreaded programming under C++0x.

The other C&B talks that have been so far announced are:

• Andrei's "BIG: C++ Strategies, Data Structures, and Algorithms aimed at Scalability."
• Herb's "C++ and the GPU… and Beyond" and "Exceptional C++0x (aka C++11)".

I think this year's C&B is shaping up to offer an exceptionally strong set of technical talks, and I hope to see you in Banff in August.

Scott

Appearing/Disappearing consts Article now at C++Next

Shortly after I posted about DDJ publishing and then "unpublishing" my article on appearing and disappearing consts, Eric Niebler suggested I publish it at C++Next. I was pleased to get the offer.  C++Next is emerging as a premier site for C++-related articles, and, unlike some other publishers I could mention, it doesn't demand exclusive worldwide rights to the content it publishes, nor does it insist on "the right in [its] sole and exclusive discretion to edit, rewrite, condense, abridge, or otherwise change" what I wrote. (In fairness, that last part was followed by "taking care, of course, not to change your meaning," but my experience is that the most appropriate person to retain sole and exclusive discretion over what I mean is me.)

Eric volunteered to do the hard work of taking my article and preparing it for publication at C++Next, and then, in a stunning departure from some other publishers I could mention, he worked with me as I tweaked things here and there for final publication.  The result is the best version of the article that exists, both in terms of content and presentation.

I'm grateful to Eric and also to Dave Abrahams, both of whom were instrumental in helping me publish this article in its current form.  In an era when anybody can publish anything with a few mouse clicks, it's a pleasure to work with people who remain dedicated to the hard and detailed work of making content available that's useful to readers and satisfying for authors. Even more than usual, any shortcomings that remain in the article are my fault, because Eric and Dave bent over backwards to accommodate my requests.

Scott