{"id":1202,"date":"2015-09-27T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T22:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2015-09-27T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T22:12:28","slug":"cppcon-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"CppCon 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CppCon 2015 is over and I&#8217;m home from Bellevue. It was a really great week; I learned a lot, talked to lots of interesting folks, and traded C++ tips and techniques with the cognoscenti. Having been to C++Now, I knew a bunch of people already, which was a good leg-up on socializing during the conference. I managed to persuade some of my colleagues to come out of their shells and talk to the great and the good &#8211; most of whom are very approachable! Chatting with <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sean-parent\">Sean Parent<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elements-Programming-Alexander-Stepanov\/dp\/032163537X\/\">EoP<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mathematics-Generic-Programming-Alexander-Stepanov\/dp\/0321942043\/\">FMtGP<\/a> before his keynote or lunching with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/STL\">STL<\/a> talking about &lt;functional&gt; and Hearthstone &#8211; these are things that are well within the reach of mortals at CppCon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1OEu9C51K2A\">Bjarne&#8217;s keynote<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sWgDk-o-6ZE\">Sean&#8217;s keynote<\/a><\/li>\n<li>STL&#8217;s talk on &lt;functional&gt;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouisDionne\">Louis Dionne<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;C++ metaprogramming: a paradigm shift&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Andrei Alexandrescu&#8217;s talks: he&#8217;s a very entertaining speaker \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course, my own talk went pretty smoothly, which was good. Now I&#8217;m looking forward to digesting all the information, trying out all kinds of new things, seeing what can be put into practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CppCon 2015 is over and I&#8217;m home from Bellevue. It was a really great week; I learned a lot, talked to lots of interesting folks, and traded C++ tips and techniques with the cognoscenti. Having been to C++Now, I knew a bunch of people already, which was a good leg-up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}