CppCon Workshop on Giving Good Technical Presentations

On Sunday, September 23 (the day before the official beginning of CppCon), Andrei Alexandrescu and Kate Gregory and I will be leading a workshop on how to give good technical presentations. Between the three of us, we've made hundreds (thousands?) of presentations on countless topics to pretty much every kind of audience. We certainly don't know everything that works (or doesn't), but we know some things, and we're eager to share what we've learned.

The workshop is really three workshops in one. Most of the day will be spent in breakout sessions, with Kate, Andrei and me each running a session in our own way. Each workshop participant will spend one breakout with each of us.  The details will vary, but each session will feature a short presentation by each workshop participant, so if you're part of the workshop, by the end of the day, you'll have received personalized suggestions from each of us on what you did well and what we think would help you do better.

For details about the workshop, consult its web page.

This is an interactive workshop, so attendance is limited. Half the slots have been set aside for the conference to offer to first-time CppCon speakers. The other half are open to anyone who wants to improve their technical presentation skills. If that includes you, I encourage you to sign up for the workshop.

Scott

Effective Modern C++ in Simplified Chinese!

In mid-2015, I was told that translations of Effective Modern C++ into both traditional and simplified Chinese had been authorized. About a year later, the traditional translation showed up on my doorstop (as I noted here). It's been nearly two more years, but the other shoe has finally dropped: EMC++ is now available in simplified Chinese.

Like the original English edition of the book (but unlike most translations), the simplified Chinese version uses multiple ink colors. Readers should thus benefit from the information that conveys.

I'm pleased to welcome this translation into the Effective Modern C++ family. In theory, this makes the information in it accessible to over a billion additional people, so I'll be looking for O'Reilly to find a way to sell it to nearly all of them :-) If you'd like to be a customer, I'm told the place to buy the book--or at least a place to buy it--is here.

Scott

New ESDS Book: More Effective C#, Second Edition

Addison-Wesley released Bill Wagner's new edition of More Effective C# last August, but I didn't find out about it and get a copy until a few days ago. The series editor is always the last to know!

If you're a C# programmer, I encourage you to give the book a close look. It's easy to do that, because Bill and Addison-Wesley have made unusually generous excerpts available at the book's web site (in the "Sample Content" tab): Chapter 2 (16 Items) is available as a freely-downloadable PDF, and Chapter 3 (8 Items) is available online. Together, that's nearly half the book you can read before you put down any money!

Scott