c++ - Where do you go to find your C++ articles and/or news these days?
- Matthew Wilson (27/27) Apr 05 2008 Hi
- Georg Wrede (15/37) Apr 05 2008 Well! The second guy this week, who walks in from ages of absence.
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- Georg Wrede (13/77) Apr 08 2008 When I was a kid and read SciAm, I saw all these ads about commercial
- Lars Ivar Igesund (9/12) Apr 09 2008 You would have to compete / co-operate with Tango logging (tango.util.lo...
- Matthew Wilson (8/14) Apr 09 2008 I'll check it out (am planning on ordering the Tango/D book this week).
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- Regan Heath (3/15) Apr 11 2008 I thought it was to allow implementation of iterators.
- Matthew Wilson (8/15) Apr 11 2008 Well, that's quite surprising. I started with that representation (in re...
- janderson (5/29) Apr 11 2008 I think it was to do with optimizations the compiler could do with loop
- janderson (5/31) Apr 05 2008 Welcome back, I'm looking forward to reading some more of your stuff. I...
- Matthew Wilson (7/11) Apr 06 2008 Joel
- janderson (5/24) Apr 06 2008 Actually I should say I mostly read Game Developers magazine more then
- Matthew Wilson (8/12) Apr 08 2008 Probably not in terms of what I tend to do day-to-day.
- janderson (4/25) Apr 10 2008 No, I haven't but I'll definitely check it out once I get through 2
- Matthew Wilson (4/18) Apr 12 2008 Cool. Let me know if/whether you like it - or post a review on Amazon - ...
- Martin Moene (9/10) Apr 06 2008 Hi Matthew,
- Matthew Wilson (4/14) Apr 06 2008 Thanks.
- DBloke (8/8) Apr 06 2008 Hi Matthew,
- Matthew Wilson (8/15) Apr 08 2008 Great. Thanks. (Did you put a review on Amazon ... ;-)
- Matthew Wilson (6/33) Apr 08 2008 Thanks to everyone who responded. That's useful info.
- Bruno Medeiros (7/33) Apr 11 2008 If your articles/posts are not terribly C++ specific, it might be
- Matt Wilson (7/45) Jun 17 2010 Dimitri
Hi It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question. I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages. I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience. Some possibilities: - CVu / Overload (ACCU) - CodeProject - DDJ - The C++ Source - newsgroups - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more Thanks in advance Matt -- -- Dr Matthew D. Wilson Director, Synesis Software - Fit-for-purpose Software Solutions (www.synesis.com.au) Author: "Extended STL, volume 1", Addison-Wesley, 2007 (www.extendedstl.com) Author: "Imperfect C++", Addison-Wesley, 2004 (www.imperfectcplusplus.com)
Apr 05 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:Hi It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question. I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages. I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience. Some possibilities: - CVu / Overload (ACCU) - CodeProject - DDJ - The C++ Source - newsgroups - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more Thanks in advanceWell! The second guy this week, who walks in from ages of absence. Welcome back, Matthew! "- just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more" would be my choice. Since I don't want to start earning my bread coding in C++, there's no point in keeping more than a "read-only" fluency in C++, and thus any libraries become less relevant. When I last remember having seen you here, D was unknown to most folks. Today things are different. Why not quickly publish what you already have, and then start writing about D? Why beat a terminally ill horse, when you should use a car. (The horse bit is actually your own first paragraph, above!) Switch to D, and see Scott Meyers &co sink in the C of obsolesence, while your street credibility does the Red Bull. georg
Apr 05 2008
"Georg Wrede" <georg nospam.org> wrote in message news:47F80B34.1050709 nospam.org...Matthew Wilson wrote:significantHi It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any<snip>momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question.Well! The second guy this week, who walks in from ages of absence. Welcome back, Matthew!Thanks, but I'm not back yet. A return-to-D is still at least 5-6 months away. But I will be back for sure -> see belowWhen I last remember having seen you here, D was unknown to most folks. Today things are different. Why not quickly publish what you already have, and then start writing about D? Why beat a terminally ill horse, when you should use a car. (The horse bit is actually your own first paragraph, above!)Well, there're several answers. One is that commercially I earn my Java). As yet there are no D things happening in any commercial space that I come near. Another side of things is that I've been working on C++ libraries that, in part, borrow some ideas from D (and other languages). You may or may not have heard of Pantheios, my C++ logging API library. It's 100% type-safe, extensible, generic and *extremely* efficient - up to two orders of magnitude faster than all the other C++ logging libraries. Part of the reason for this is that it is able to convert logging statement components to string slices (len+ptr) - i.e. like a D string - which are then treated generically by the core functions that congregate them into a logging entry. And it only does any of this _after_ it's determined whether a given statement is to be logged or not, so it's effectively zero-cost when that logging level is switched off. In one fell-swoop, Pantheios can eliminate #ifdef DEBUG from application code forever, thanks in part to its D influences. ;-) As soon as I get Pantheios out of beta (it's at beta 119, even though it's in production systems around the globe) I plan to write Pantheios.D, and am open-armed to any willing D-collaborators. The other major library that I'm working on is FastFormat, which is be a generic, extensible, 100% type-safe, *highly* efficient, I18N/L15N-enabling formatting library that I expect (or at least hope) will kill stone dead C's streams, C++'s IOStreams and any other C++ output/formatting libraries currently in use. It uses similar technology to Pantheios, and is influenced by D's writef() to some degree. I hope to release this in the next few weeks, and again spreaD some Design into the C++ worlD. ;-)Switch to D, and see Scott Meyers &co sink in the C of obsolesence, while your street credibility does the Red Bull.Well, not sure I think of it quite like that, but I'm definitely still interested in D and plan to get back into it when I am able. Cheers Matt
Apr 08 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:"Georg Wrede" <georg nospam.org> wroteLooking forward to it!Matthew Wilson wrote:Thanks, but I'm not back yet. A return-to-D is still at least 5-6 months away. But I will be back for sure -> see belowHi It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question.Well! The second guy this week, who walks in from ages of absence. Welcome back, Matthew!When I was a kid and read SciAm, I saw all these ads about commercial versions of Lint. Made me sick to see that a language is so un-ergonomic that you have to buy expensive tools like that. When my grandfather worked at Nokia, all they made was rubber boots and winter tyres. Later, when my college schoolmate's father was the CEO, they diversified into electronics. They even made a CP/M computer, called MikroMikko. But it was his idea to start making your own future, and that's when they got into mobile phones. We're doing that with D.When I last remember having seen you here, D was unknown to most folks. Today things are different. Why not quickly publish what you already have, and then start writing about D? Why beat a terminally ill horse, when you should use a car. (The horse bit is actually your own first paragraph, above!)Well, there're several answers. One is that commercially I earn my to do their thing better, or building products for clients (in C++, space that I come near.Another side of things is that I've been working on C++ libraries that, in part, borrow some ideas from D (and other languages). You may or may not have heard of Pantheios, my C++ logging API library. It's 100% type-safe, extensible, generic and *extremely* efficient - up to two orders of magnitude faster than all the other C++ logging libraries. Part of the reason for this is that it is able to convert logging statement components to string slices (len+ptr) - i.e. like a D string - which are then treated generically by the core functions that congregate them into a logging entry. And it only does any of this _after_ it's determined whether a given statement is to be logged or not, so it's effectively zero-cost when that logging level is switched off.Now that's something that ought to be in D's CV!In one fell-swoop, Pantheios can eliminate #ifdef DEBUG from application code forever, thanks in part to its D influences. ;-) As soon as I get Pantheios out of beta (it's at beta 119, even though it's in production systems around the globe) I plan to write Pantheios.D, and am open-armed to any willing D-collaborators. The other major library that I'm working on is FastFormat, which is be a generic, extensible, 100% type-safe, *highly* efficient, I18N/L15N-enabling formatting library that I expect (or at least hope) will kill stone dead C's streams, C++'s IOStreams and any other C++ output/formatting libraries currently in use. It uses similar technology to Pantheios, and is influenced by D's writef() to some degree. I hope to release this in the next few weeks, and again spreaD some Design into the C++ worlD. ;-)Sounds really cool! Good to see you've covered the day job part.And it ain't gettin' any less interesting.Switch to D, and see Scott Meyers &co sink in the C of obsolesence, while your street credibility does the Red Bull.Well, not sure I think of it quite like that, but I'm definitely still interested in D and plan to get back into it when I am able.
Apr 08 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:As soon as I get Pantheios out of beta (it's at beta 119, even though it's in production systems around the globe) I plan to write Pantheios.D, and am open-armed to any willing D-collaborators.You would have to compete / co-operate with Tango logging (tango.util.log) on that one :D -- Lars Ivar Igesund blog at http://larsivi.net DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi Dancing the Tango
Apr 09 2008
"Lars Ivar Igesund" <larsivar igesund.net> wrote in message news:ftiqk2$2i09$1 digitalmars.com...Matthew Wilson wrote:I'll check it out (am planning on ordering the Tango/D book this week). There may not be any competition, however. Remember that Pantheios is a logging *API* library. At least in the C++ world, the use of Pantheios over an existing logging library gives the best of all worlds. It's nothing more than conjecture at this point, but the same may apply in the D world. :-) We'll see later in the year. Cheers MattAs soon as I get Pantheios out of beta (it's at beta 119, even though it's in production systems around the globe) I plan to write Pantheios.D, and am open-armed to any willing D-collaborators.You would have to compete / co-operate with Tango logging (tango.util.log) on that one :D
Apr 09 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote: <snip>Part of the reason for this is that it is able to convert logging statement components to string slices (len+ptr) - i.e. like a D string<snip> Interestingly enough Walter has talked about changing to ptr+ptrend for array/string for efficiency. -Joel
Apr 10 2008
janderson wrote:Matthew Wilson wrote: <snip>I thought it was to allow implementation of iterators. ReganPart of the reason for this is that it is able to convert logging statement components to string slices (len+ptr) - i.e. like a D string<snip> Interestingly enough Walter has talked about changing to ptr+ptrend for array/string for efficiency.
Apr 11 2008
"janderson" <askme me.com> wrote in message news:ftmsi0$e9c$1 digitalmars.com...Matthew Wilson wrote: <snip>Well, that's quite surprising. I started with that representation (in recls) for that very purpose, but the use cases in which that was an advantage were substantially fewer than those where you need the length. So I've gone with len+ptr in all subsequent cases/libraries - including Pantheios and FastFormat - and I'm confident (at least for the kinds of things I've done with slices) that that's the right decision. Of course, things might be different in D / with what Walter wants to do, but I'm skeptical until demonstrated otherwise. Just my tuppeneth MattPart of the reason for this is that it is able to convert logging statement components to string slices (len+ptr) - i.e. like a D string<snip> Interestingly enough Walter has talked about changing to ptr+ptrend for array/string for efficiency.
Apr 11 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:"janderson" <askme me.com> wrote in message news:ftmsi0$e9c$1 digitalmars.com...I think it was to do with optimizations the compiler could do with loop iterations. Of course I'm not going to put words in Walters mouth. Maybe someone can find the thread. -JoelMatthew Wilson wrote: <snip>Well, that's quite surprising. I started with that representation (in recls) for that very purpose, but the use cases in which that was an advantage were substantially fewer than those where you need the length. So I've gone with len+ptr in all subsequent cases/libraries - including Pantheios and FastFormat - and I'm confident (at least for the kinds of things I've done with slices) that that's the right decision. Of course, things might be different in D / with what Walter wants to do, but I'm skeptical until demonstrated otherwise. Just my tuppeneth MattPart of the reason for this is that it is able to convert logging statement components to string slices (len+ptr) - i.e. like a D string<snip> Interestingly enough Walter has talked about changing to ptr+ptrend for array/string for efficiency.
Apr 11 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:Hi It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question. I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages. I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience. Some possibilities: - CVu / Overload (ACCU) - CodeProject - DDJ - The C++ Source - newsgroups - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more Thanks in advance MattWelcome back, I'm looking forward to reading some more of your stuff. I read DDJ mostly. Please let us know when your books comes out and when publish something new. -Joel
Apr 05 2008
"janderson" <askme me.com> wrote in message news:ft9912$2oq3$1 digitalmars.com...Welcome back, I'm looking forward to reading some more of your stuff. I read DDJ mostly. Please let us know when your books comes out and when publish something new. -JoelJoel Thanks for the welcome. I'll let you know what/when. :-) It's likely that I'm not going to get chance to come back to D until Q4. ;-/ But if there's still a gap in D's template libraries, I will at that point recommence work on DTL Cheers Matt
Apr 06 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:"janderson" <askme me.com> wrote in message news:ft9912$2oq3$1 digitalmars.com...Actually I should say I mostly read Game Developers magazine more then anything. But I guess that's not quite your field. -Joel PS - I really enjoyed Imperfect C++.Welcome back, I'm looking forward to reading some more of your stuff. I read DDJ mostly. Please let us know when your books comes out and when publish something new. -JoelJoel Thanks for the welcome. I'll let you know what/when. :-) It's likely that I'm not going to get chance to come back to D until Q4. ;-/ But if there's still a gap in D's template libraries, I will at that point recommence work on DTL Cheers Matt
Apr 06 2008
Actually I should say I mostly read Game Developers magazine more then anything. But I guess that's not quite your field.Probably not in terms of what I tend to do day-to-day. But Pantheios (and the no-more-than-weeks-from-release FastFormat) provides high performance, low memory allocation, and high robustness, all of which (I'm already being told by games users) are essential features of any library that will be used in games. So I guess I have an indirect interest.-Joel PS - I really enjoyed Imperfect C++.Thanks. Have you read Extended STL, volume 1 yet? It's a *far* better written book, and continues the shining lights into deep, dark corners approach of IC++. Cheers Matt
Apr 08 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:No, I haven't but I'll definitely check it out once I get through 2 other books I'm reading. -JoelActually I should say I mostly read Game Developers magazine more then anything. But I guess that's not quite your field.Probably not in terms of what I tend to do day-to-day. But Pantheios (and the no-more-than-weeks-from-release FastFormat) provides high performance, low memory allocation, and high robustness, all of which (I'm already being told by games users) are essential features of any library that will be used in games. So I guess I have an indirect interest.-Joel PS - I really enjoyed Imperfect C++.Thanks. Have you read Extended STL, volume 1 yet? It's a *far* better written book, and continues the shining lights into deep, dark corners approach of IC++. Cheers Matt
Apr 10 2008
dark-Joel PS - I really enjoyed Imperfect C++.Thanks. Have you read Extended STL, volume 1 yet? It's a *far* better written book, and continues the shining lights into deep,Cool. Let me know if/whether you like it - or post a review on Amazon - when you're done. Cheers Mattcorners approach of IC++. Cheers MattNo, I haven't but I'll definitely check it out once I get through 2 other books I'm reading.
Apr 12 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience.Hi Matthew, I would say that for me the order of chance to read your writings is: - Book ;-) - The C++ Source - DDJ - CodeProject - ACCU Cheers, Martin.
Apr 06 2008
"Martin Moene" <moene eld.physics.LeidenUniv.nl> wrote in message news:ftauj7$90g$1 digitalmars.com...Matthew Wilson wrote:Thanks. I hope that descending, not ascending. ;-) MattI'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience.Hi Matthew, I would say that for me the order of chance to read your writings is: - Book ;-) - The C++ Source - DDJ - CodeProject - ACCU Cheers, Martin.
Apr 06 2008
Hi Matthew, Loved Imperfect C++ by the way :) DDJ Artima CodeProject ProgrammersHeaven DeveloperLand D
Apr 06 2008
"DBloke" <DBloke nowhere.org> wrote in message news:ftbg7k$1ksu$1 digitalmars.com...Hi Matthew, Loved Imperfect C++ by the way :)Great. Thanks. (Did you put a review on Amazon ... ;-) Also, as I asked Joel, have you read Extended STL, volume 1? It's kind of a similar flavour/approach, albeit in a more constrained, modern, subject area. And it's *heaps* better written than IC++. Sometimes I have to look up things in IC++, and the corrugated in-jokes make me cringe. ;-)DDJ Artima CodeProject ProgrammersHeaven DeveloperLandThanks, I'll bear it in mind. Cheers Matt
Apr 08 2008
Thanks to everyone who responded. That's useful info. I'll make specific responses where appropriate. Cheers Matt "Matthew Wilson" <matthew hat.stlsoft.dot.org> wrote in message news:ft8pu1$19pv$1 digitalmars.com...Hi It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining anysignificantmomentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question. I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages. I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience. Some possibilities: - CVu / Overload (ACCU) - CodeProject - DDJ - The C++ Source - newsgroups - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more Thanks in advance Matt -- -- Dr Matthew D. Wilson Director, Synesis Software - Fit-for-purpose Software Solutions (www.synesis.com.au) Author: "Extended STL, volume 1", Addison-Wesley, 2007 (www.extendedstl.com) Author: "Imperfect C++", Addison-Wesley, 2004 (www.imperfectcplusplus.com)
Apr 08 2008
Matthew Wilson wrote:Hi It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question. I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages. I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience. Some possibilities: - CVu / Overload (ACCU) - CodeProject - DDJ - The C++ Source - newsgroups - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more Thanks in advance MattIf your articles/posts are not terribly C++ specific, it might be interesting to publish them in the more language-generic sites (DDJ, Code Project, etc.) -- Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D
Apr 11 2008
"Bruno Medeiros" <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> wrote in message news:fto49v$ik$1 digitalmars.com...Matthew Wilson wrote:Dimitri Good idea. As it turns out, I'm now a "resident Guru blogger" at Dr. Dobb's, and I'm finding it a good vehicle. Regards MattHi It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question. I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages. I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience. Some possibilities: - CVu / Overload (ACCU) - CodeProject - DDJ - The C++ Source - newsgroups - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more Thanks in advance MattIf your articles/posts are not terribly C++ specific, it might be interesting to publish them in the more language-generic sites (DDJ, Code Project, etc.)
Jun 17 2010