home
> blog
>> 403
| [previous] / [up] | [overview] | [down] / [next] |
Mon May 16 13:09:40 2005 GMT: Winchester, Bournemouth and London
Thu May 05 16:33:23 2005 GMT: Solaris 10
Sun Apr 24 21:42:10 2005 GMT: Bournemouth
Now that the ACCU conference is over, I am taking a few days holiday before returning to Austria.
For no particular reason, I decided to travel to Bournemouth (via Winchester, where I walked around the city for some time). BTW, I am staying at The Hostel Inn which offers free wireless internet access in your room.
Sun Apr 24 16:56:19 2005 GMT: ACCU Conference 2005, Day 3 and 4
So, what happend on the final two day's of the ACCU conference?
Of course, there is no way to top these in-depth presentations by Stroustrup and Sutter on the previous two days. But Ottosen tried his best to keep the high standard with his presentations of the current Design by Contract proposal for C++0x and the Boost range and pointer container libraries.
There was also a presentation on "What's New in EJB 3.0", but it only attracted a small audience (it seems that Java guys really had a hard time on this conference).
Oh, there is one more thing I should note: Coplien told us in his keynote on Friday to break symmetry (because broken symmetry is beauty, etc.), and on Saturday one of Kevlin Henney's main points was to make things symmetric (to keep it simple, etc.).
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
Fri Apr 08 21:34:19 2005 GMT: Hoary Hedgehog
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
