Two quick things:
- Dr. Dobb's video interview with me is now on-line.
- Update on appearance of ESTL sample Items.
VIDEO INTERVIEW:
When I was at the Software Development Conference last month, Dr. Dobb's
roped me into a short interview for technetcast, and that interview is now
available. If you'd like to know what I had to say (nothing profound), or
if you'd just like to know what I look/sound like (after being compressed
for distribution over the net), surf on over to
http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html?stream_id=543.
ESTL SAMPLE ITEMS:
I'm not sure why, but the excerpts from Effective STL that were supposed to
start appearing at the book's web site on May 14 aren't available yet. We
still plan to put four sample Items up, but I don't know exactly when it
will happen, but I'm assured it will be soon. I do know the Item numbers
that will appear, however: 16, 44, 21, and 2, in that order.
Scott
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Check out THE C++ Seminar: 3 Days with 5 Experts |
| http://www.gotw.ca/cpp_seminar/ |
+---------------------------------------------------+
Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Thursday, May 17, 2001
THE C++ Seminar
If you're in a hurry, this is all you need to know:
THE C++ Seminar: 3 Days with 5 Experts
Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter, Dan Saks, Steve Dewhurst, Andrei Alexandrescu
September 17-19 in Portland, Oregon
http://www.gotw.ca/cpp_seminar
What follows is more information about this remarkable event.
* * * * *
Wouldn't it be fun, I thought, to get together with some of the best C++
authors, consultants, and lecturers, and have a party? I'm talking about
the people I turn to myself when I have questions about C++ software
development. People who are undisputed experts. People who are
undisputably articulate. People who are undisputably fun. People who I
almost never get to see, because we're all traveling all the time, and even
when we show up at the same event, we're almost always scheduled to speak
opposite one another. Wouldn't it be fun to get them together in the same
room for a few days to talk about anything and everything related to C++?
To have a chance to learn from one another? To have a chance to heckle one
another and challenge one another? I thought it would be HUGE fun.
So I approached Herb Sutter, Dan Saks, Steve Dewhurst, and Andrei
Alexandrescu, and I asked them if they'd like to do it. I was pleased when
they said they would. I was even more pleased when we managed to find
three days this fall when all of us were available. Thus was born what we
call "THE C++ Seminar: 3 Days with 5 Experts." It's a party with an
unmatched technical program. And you're invited to participate.
The five of us each know more about C++ than is probably healthy, but
individually we also have unique strengths. Herb, for example, knows all
about distributed computing, distributed databases, and other things
distributed and concurrent, because that's been his application area for
years. Dan's foundation in C and C++ standards is unparalleled, and his
knowledge of the embedded market is, well, let's just say there's a reason
he's a columnist for Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Steve used to
work with Bjarne on C++ compilers. Yes, that Bjarne. You want to know
what's going on inside a compiler? We can all guess, but Steve's guesses
are likely to be especially good, because he's had to implement compilers.
Andrei has *forgotten* more about C++ templates than the rest of us are
ever likely to know. And me? It was my idea, so they had to let me
attend.
We're still fine tuning the details of this event, but we know this for
sure:
- Unlike the conferences and trade shows where we sometimes speak, each
of us will be at this seminar all the time, so you can easily track us
down to talk to us about whatever you want to. Saw something in one of
our books that confused you? Make us clarify it. Disagreed with
something we said in a presentation:? Make us defend it. Want to know
why we're not doing Java? Ask us.
- The seminar topics aren't limited to C++ per se. Related technologies
are on the table, too. Threading, patterns, embedded and distributed
systems, dynamic linking, template-based generic and generative
programming, they're all fair game. This isn't so much a seminar on
C++ as much as a seminar on using C++ to get your jobs done. We all
claim to be consultants. Demand some useful consultations.
- The material here will be intermediate, advanced, or better. There
won't be any superficial introductory talks.
- We hope to do some joint presentations, because many of us have strong
feelings about some topics, and those feelings aren't always in
agreement. For example, I know that some of the other speakers are
more enthusiastic about exceptions than I am. In some cases, our
interests in a single topic approach it in quite different ways.
For example, Herb, Andrei, and I have all written about the standard
string type, but our takes on it have been dramatically different.
Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky, and a fight will break out.
- The seminar won't be hands-on, but you're welcome to bring a laptop and
throw our sample code against your compilers. You're also welcome to
bring problematic code and ask us to look at it. Just remember that
we're not under NDAs, and we might ask for permission to show some of
your code in a seminar presentation.
Registration for THE C++ Seminar will open soon. You can join the seminar
mailing list to be notified about registration and seminar details at least
one week before the general public. Space for this event is limited (really
-- the hotel has physical limits), and those who are on the seminar mailing
list will be the first to be informed when registration begins.
You can join the seminar mailing list via the box on the seminar web page
(http://www.gotw.ca/cpp_seminar), or by sending mail to
cpp_seminar-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
I know this seminar is going to be great fun. I'm already thinking of
questions to spring on Herb, Dan, Steve, and Andrei. I encourage you to
think of your own questions, then join us in Portland September 17-19.
It's a party. It's an event. It's THE C++ Seminar.
Scott
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Check out THE C++ Seminar: 3 Days with 5 Experts |
| http://www.gotw.ca/cpp_seminar/ |
+---------------------------------------------------+
THE C++ Seminar: 3 Days with 5 Experts
Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter, Dan Saks, Steve Dewhurst, Andrei Alexandrescu
September 17-19 in Portland, Oregon
http://www.gotw.ca/cpp_seminar
What follows is more information about this remarkable event.
* * * * *
Wouldn't it be fun, I thought, to get together with some of the best C++
authors, consultants, and lecturers, and have a party? I'm talking about
the people I turn to myself when I have questions about C++ software
development. People who are undisputed experts. People who are
undisputably articulate. People who are undisputably fun. People who I
almost never get to see, because we're all traveling all the time, and even
when we show up at the same event, we're almost always scheduled to speak
opposite one another. Wouldn't it be fun to get them together in the same
room for a few days to talk about anything and everything related to C++?
To have a chance to learn from one another? To have a chance to heckle one
another and challenge one another? I thought it would be HUGE fun.
So I approached Herb Sutter, Dan Saks, Steve Dewhurst, and Andrei
Alexandrescu, and I asked them if they'd like to do it. I was pleased when
they said they would. I was even more pleased when we managed to find
three days this fall when all of us were available. Thus was born what we
call "THE C++ Seminar: 3 Days with 5 Experts." It's a party with an
unmatched technical program. And you're invited to participate.
The five of us each know more about C++ than is probably healthy, but
individually we also have unique strengths. Herb, for example, knows all
about distributed computing, distributed databases, and other things
distributed and concurrent, because that's been his application area for
years. Dan's foundation in C and C++ standards is unparalleled, and his
knowledge of the embedded market is, well, let's just say there's a reason
he's a columnist for Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Steve used to
work with Bjarne on C++ compilers. Yes, that Bjarne. You want to know
what's going on inside a compiler? We can all guess, but Steve's guesses
are likely to be especially good, because he's had to implement compilers.
Andrei has *forgotten* more about C++ templates than the rest of us are
ever likely to know. And me? It was my idea, so they had to let me
attend.
We're still fine tuning the details of this event, but we know this for
sure:
- Unlike the conferences and trade shows where we sometimes speak, each
of us will be at this seminar all the time, so you can easily track us
down to talk to us about whatever you want to. Saw something in one of
our books that confused you? Make us clarify it. Disagreed with
something we said in a presentation:? Make us defend it. Want to know
why we're not doing Java? Ask us.
- The seminar topics aren't limited to C++ per se. Related technologies
are on the table, too. Threading, patterns, embedded and distributed
systems, dynamic linking, template-based generic and generative
programming, they're all fair game. This isn't so much a seminar on
C++ as much as a seminar on using C++ to get your jobs done. We all
claim to be consultants. Demand some useful consultations.
- The material here will be intermediate, advanced, or better. There
won't be any superficial introductory talks.
- We hope to do some joint presentations, because many of us have strong
feelings about some topics, and those feelings aren't always in
agreement. For example, I know that some of the other speakers are
more enthusiastic about exceptions than I am. In some cases, our
interests in a single topic approach it in quite different ways.
For example, Herb, Andrei, and I have all written about the standard
string type, but our takes on it have been dramatically different.
Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky, and a fight will break out.
- The seminar won't be hands-on, but you're welcome to bring a laptop and
throw our sample code against your compilers. You're also welcome to
bring problematic code and ask us to look at it. Just remember that
we're not under NDAs, and we might ask for permission to show some of
your code in a seminar presentation.
Registration for THE C++ Seminar will open soon. You can join the seminar
mailing list to be notified about registration and seminar details at least
one week before the general public. Space for this event is limited (really
-- the hotel has physical limits), and those who are on the seminar mailing
list will be the first to be informed when registration begins.
You can join the seminar mailing list via the box on the seminar web page
(http://www.gotw.ca/cpp_seminar), or by sending mail to
cpp_seminar-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
I know this seminar is going to be great fun. I'm already thinking of
questions to spring on Herb, Dan, Steve, and Andrei. I encourage you to
think of your own questions, then join us in Portland September 17-19.
It's a party. It's an event. It's THE C++ Seminar.
Scott
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Check out THE C++ Seminar: 3 Days with 5 Experts |
| http://www.gotw.ca/cpp_seminar/ |
+---------------------------------------------------+
Tuesday, May 8, 2001
PDF for ESTL TOC is now available
PDF for the ESTL TOC is now available in the "Files" section of this
mailing list's web site. The URL for the TOC is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scott_meyers/files/Standalone%20TOC.pdf.
Scott
mailing list's web site. The URL for the TOC is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scott_meyers/files/Standalone%20TOC.pdf.
Scott
ESTL in CUJ, etc.
Three short announcements:
- The June CUJ with an ESTL excerpt now exists (for me)
- Buy ESTL from Amazon via my special link, and I get a kickback...
- Bruce Eckel's hands are on C++ again
Today I received my author's copies of the June C/C++ Users Journal. The
first article is from Effective STL and is entitled "Three Guidelines for
Effective Iterator Usage." The material in the article is a thinly-edited
version of the book's Items 26-28. Authors' copies of the magazine tend to
arrive before subscribers' and before the magazine shows up on newsstands,
so figure it will be around a week or so before the magazine is widely
available. In the meantime, you can view the cover and TOC of the June CUJ
at http://www.cuj.com/current/index.htm?topic=current. At some point in
the future, my article will be available online, but I don't know when that
will be.
* * * * *
If you're planning to buy a copy of ESTL from Amazon, please consider using
the link from my book page. My motive? I get a kickback from Amazon for
books ordered via those links. (Your price is the same either way.) My
books page is http://www.aristeia.com/books.html.
In a hurry? Skip the trip to my site and just use this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201749629/o/qid=987984055/sr=2-2/scottme\
yersho-20
* * * * *
Bruce Eckel, friend to me and to all programmers everywhere, has asked me
to announce the following:
Chuck Allison will be teaching Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in C++" Hands-on
Seminar in beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado, June 25-29. Chuck will
cover the matrial in Volume 1 of the Second Edition of Bruce's "Thinking
in C++". To learn more or sign up, visit
http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/ThinkingInCPP/. Bring your mountain bike
and hiking shoes (and a jacket).
Unlike me, Bruce doesn't release his books in dribs and drabs. You can
download complete snapshots in one swell foop. Feel like fooping? Visit
http://www.mindview.net/Books. No mountain bike required.
That's it for now. Stay tuned to this mailing list, because more ESTL
Items will be available in the coming weeks. I'm also going to post a PDF
copy of the book's TOC one of these days, because the preliminary one at
http://cseng.aw.com/book/toc/0,3830,0201749629,00.html is incorrect.
That's not AW's fault. At literally the last minute, I changed the title
of Item 36 to more accurately reflect the material it covers. It's still
about copy_if, but its advice is to NOT implement it via remove_copy_if and
not1. Those of you at my talk in Bellevue last night know what I mean.
Scott
- The June CUJ with an ESTL excerpt now exists (for me)
- Buy ESTL from Amazon via my special link, and I get a kickback...
- Bruce Eckel's hands are on C++ again
Today I received my author's copies of the June C/C++ Users Journal. The
first article is from Effective STL and is entitled "Three Guidelines for
Effective Iterator Usage." The material in the article is a thinly-edited
version of the book's Items 26-28. Authors' copies of the magazine tend to
arrive before subscribers' and before the magazine shows up on newsstands,
so figure it will be around a week or so before the magazine is widely
available. In the meantime, you can view the cover and TOC of the June CUJ
at http://www.cuj.com/current/index.htm?topic=current. At some point in
the future, my article will be available online, but I don't know when that
will be.
* * * * *
If you're planning to buy a copy of ESTL from Amazon, please consider using
the link from my book page. My motive? I get a kickback from Amazon for
books ordered via those links. (Your price is the same either way.) My
books page is http://www.aristeia.com/books.html.
In a hurry? Skip the trip to my site and just use this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201749629/o/qid=987984055/sr=2-2/scottme\
yersho-20
* * * * *
Bruce Eckel, friend to me and to all programmers everywhere, has asked me
to announce the following:
Chuck Allison will be teaching Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in C++" Hands-on
Seminar in beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado, June 25-29. Chuck will
cover the matrial in Volume 1 of the Second Edition of Bruce's "Thinking
in C++". To learn more or sign up, visit
http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/ThinkingInCPP/. Bring your mountain bike
and hiking shoes (and a jacket).
Unlike me, Bruce doesn't release his books in dribs and drabs. You can
download complete snapshots in one swell foop. Feel like fooping? Visit
http://www.mindview.net/Books. No mountain bike required.
That's it for now. Stay tuned to this mailing list, because more ESTL
Items will be available in the coming weeks. I'm also going to post a PDF
copy of the book's TOC one of these days, because the preliminary one at
http://cseng.aw.com/book/toc/0,3830,0201749629,00.html is incorrect.
That's not AW's fault. At literally the last minute, I changed the title
of Item 36 to more accurately reflect the material it covers. It's still
about copy_if, but its advice is to NOT implement it via remove_copy_if and
not1. Those of you at my talk in Bellevue last night know what I mean.
Scott
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Effective STL is done! Sneak Preview next Monday...
Yesterday I send Addison-Wesley a completed copy of my next book,
"Effective STL." The book won't physically exist for about a month, and it
will probably be about mid-June before it shows up in local bookstores, but
between now and then you'll have ample opportunity to get a flavor for the
book, because we're making a whole slew of Items available. The June CUJ
will contain an excerpt, as will the July DDJ. AW will be posting one
sample Item per week for four weeks starting in mid-May. I'll provide more
details on all of those things as they occur, but if you live near
Bellevue, Washington, you can get a glimpse of the book before anybody
else, because next Monday I'm presenting the following talk for WSA's
WinSIG:
When: Monday, May 7th, 2001
networking: 6:30pm, presentation 7:00pm
Where: Overlake Hospital Conference Center
121 107th Ave NE, Bellevue
NOTE: This is off Old Main Street and 107th
in Bellevue, not at the hospital itself. Take
Main Street and turn North onto 107th,
conference center will be on your left.
EFFECTIVE STL SNEAK PREVIEW
For the past 18 months, Scott Meyers has been exploring the STL, and he
just sent to his publisher the results of his efforts, the new book,
Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard
Template Library. In this talk, Scott presents three Items from this
new book, items that focus on material not usually covered in
descriptions of the STL. He also hands out flyers for the new book and
urges everyone to buy their usual minimum of three copies: one for the
office, one for home, and one for each of your cars (for when you're
stuck in traffic).
Cost: Free! No reservations required. Invite your
friends!
FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE THIS EMAIL TO OTHERS
PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR COMPANY'S INTERNAL
DEVELOPER'S DISTRIBUTION LIST
I hope to see you next Monday in Bellevue.
Scott
"Effective STL." The book won't physically exist for about a month, and it
will probably be about mid-June before it shows up in local bookstores, but
between now and then you'll have ample opportunity to get a flavor for the
book, because we're making a whole slew of Items available. The June CUJ
will contain an excerpt, as will the July DDJ. AW will be posting one
sample Item per week for four weeks starting in mid-May. I'll provide more
details on all of those things as they occur, but if you live near
Bellevue, Washington, you can get a glimpse of the book before anybody
else, because next Monday I'm presenting the following talk for WSA's
WinSIG:
When: Monday, May 7th, 2001
networking: 6:30pm, presentation 7:00pm
Where: Overlake Hospital Conference Center
121 107th Ave NE, Bellevue
NOTE: This is off Old Main Street and 107th
in Bellevue, not at the hospital itself. Take
Main Street and turn North onto 107th,
conference center will be on your left.
EFFECTIVE STL SNEAK PREVIEW
For the past 18 months, Scott Meyers has been exploring the STL, and he
just sent to his publisher the results of his efforts, the new book,
Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard
Template Library. In this talk, Scott presents three Items from this
new book, items that focus on material not usually covered in
descriptions of the STL. He also hands out flyers for the new book and
urges everyone to buy their usual minimum of three copies: one for the
office, one for home, and one for each of your cars (for when you're
stuck in traffic).
Cost: Free! No reservations required. Invite your
friends!
FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE THIS EMAIL TO OTHERS
PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR COMPANY'S INTERNAL
DEVELOPER'S DISTRIBUTION LIST
I hope to see you next Monday in Bellevue.
Scott
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