3 May, 2013
Community Day
The Belgian community is organizing the 7th edition of Community Day! Community Day 2013 will take place on June 20th 2013 in Utopolis Mechelen.
14 user groups will outperform themselves to bring you their view on Microsoft products in more than 25 sessions. 2013 is not a release year for Microsoft so far, so that gives us, the community, the opportunity to do deep-dive sessions in interesting topics. The biggest goal of this edition is bringing you high-quality sessions. And we’re pretty sure we have achieved that. Why don’t you take a look yourself at our agenda? Oh and don’t forget to take a look at our sponsor page, because it’s thanks to them we can organize this great event!
Convinced you need to be part of the experience again? Want to register? Great! Registration opens in the second week of May so come back soon to reserve your seat. Remember that last year, the event was sold out very fast, so make sure you’re on time!
The Microsoft Community Day 2013 is powered by:
- AZUG
- Belgian C++ user group
- BIWUG
- CLUG
- Pro-Exchange
- SCUG
- SQLUG
- ACCB.net/VBIB
- Visug
- WinSec
- WinTalks
- DotNetHub
- MADN
- TechNine
We hope to see you on June 20th!
11 Jan, 2013
Materialise
The next meeting of the Belgian C++ Users Group is planned for Monday February 4th 2013 at 18:30 at Materialise HQ.
Note: The deadline for registrations is January 18!
The agenda is as follows:
- Session 1: Effective WinRT with C++ (Francisco Almeida)
This will be a brief overview of implementation of Windows Store apps using C++, along with its most useful libraries, new language features and, of course, common pitfalls and traps one may encounter.
We will go over the multithreaded design of WinRT, and how modern C++ allows us to effectively cope with it, including exception handling. We will, of course, refresh some general knowledge of Windows Store app development, in the perspective of its implementation while using C++.
- Break
- Session 2: Threading in C++11 (Lieven de Cock)
Threading has been a challenging and non portable job for many years, and it is one of our basic tools for the future. Though several libraries came to aid (POCO / boost / …), now it’s finally part of the language, C++11 is bringing us threading support. In this crash course we will dive into basic uses of std::thread, std::mutex, std::condition_variable, std::atomic, … Life is easier and more portable now, but did we get all we wanted ? And as always, C++ is powerful, providing constructs mere mortals should better not touch, unless you are that 1% of the user base, but most of us are not.
We will see simple code examples explaining the std::thread basics. So lock your mutex, wait for your condition variable and atomically spin up that thread, C++11 threading is here for you. Thou shall async till eternity, or untill the future has delivered its promise.
- Guided tour of the Materialise facilities.
- Drink
Materialise ( http://materialise.be/ ) is sponsoring this event by providing the location, drinks and catering
The event is free for everyone, but you need to register for it.
