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Sun Apr 24 21:42:10 2005 GMT: Bournemouth
Sun Apr 24 16:56:19 2005 GMT: ACCU Conference 2005, Day 3 and 4
Thu Apr 21 16:52:47 2005 GMT: ACCU Conference 2005, Day 2
Today, there were lots of presentations about the future of C++, what will be in the next version of the standard and what might end up in the next version of the standard (which should be ready in 2009). Bjarne mostly talked about concepts, but also mentioned template aliases and implicitely typed variables (decltype and auto).
Sutter was concerned in his presentation with the state of multithreading support in programming languages (C++ currently doesn't have any support at all, but also Java and .NET didn't get it right).
Abrahams presented rvalue references and move semantics which will most likely end up in the next version of the C++ standard.
Thu Apr 21 07:57:54 2005 GMT: ACCU Conference 2005, Day 1
The first day of this year's ACCU conference started with some in depth template topics. Abrahams gave a presentation on C++ Template Metaprogramming where he showed how to use C++ template metaprogramming techniques to implement finite state machines. After the lunch break, Sutter compared generics in Java, .NET and C++. Unsurprisingly, C++ templates are by far the most flexible, and Java's implementation is the simplest. Sutter also told us about his favorite operating system (Mandrake Linux) and one of the great features of Virtual PC: the virtual power button which comes in handy if Windows (running as a guest in Virtual PC) crashes.
Like last year, wireless internet access is available at the conference, but it is somewhat limited this year as the conference hotel has installed a T-Mobile hotspot and there are only a limited amount of slots available for conference delegates for free use.
Thu Apr 14 21:30:05 2005 GMT: JabRSS Back Up
JabRSS is back up since Tuesday noon (just in case you haven't noticed yet).
Mon Apr 11 19:09:03 2005 GMT: JabRSS Down
JabRSS is currently down, presumably because of an issue with the Jabber server that is being used by JabRSS.
Fri Apr 08 21:34:19 2005 GMT: Hoary Hedgehog
I nearly missed today's release of Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog), probably because I am still used to the long Debian release cycle.
BTW, in contrast to Debian sarge (which will probably be released later this century), Hoary Hedgehog does include an AMD64 port (as did Warty Warthog).
Sat Apr 02 10:31:30 2005 GMT: OpenWatcom C++ Compiler Improvements
Sun Mar 20 19:29:37 2005 GMT: Linux 2.4.29 on wrt54g
Sun Mar 20 19:26:54 2005 GMT: lsh-utils 2.0.1 for Debian woody
Mon Mar 07 21:43:41 2005 GMT: Partial Template Specializations
Tue Feb 15 21:21:30 2005 GMT: news.individual.net
