Overloading in Overdrive: A Generic Data-Centric Messaging Library for DDS

Slides of my Silicon Valley Code Camp (2013) talk are now available . If you attended this session in person please evaluate it. I take fee...

21 Ways of Passing Parameters ... Plus One!

You probably already know that there are 21 ways of passing parameters to a C++11 function! In case you lost the count somewhere, lets count...

DDS Programming using Modern C++

I'm not the only one who agrees that C++ is the awesomest language for network programming . Raw network programming, however, is very l...

Mixing Return Codes and Exceptions in C++

Happy New Year!! Many projects use libraries developed by different teams, organizations, and open-source communities. It is not rare to see...

C++11 Idioms @ 2012 Silicon Valley Code Camp

The slides for my C++11 Idioms talk @ 2012 Silicon Valley Code Camp are now available. If you attended the talk please evaluate  it. The sl...

C++/C++11 Track @ Silicon Valley Code Camp 2012

For the first time in 7 years, 2012  Silicon Valley Code Camp will have a track dedicated to C++ and C++11 . Code Camp is a conference of d...

Perfect Forwarding of Parameter Groups in C++11

C++11 offers a great new feature called Perfect Forwarding , which is enabled via the use of rvalue references. Perfect forwarding allows a ...

Rvalue references in constructor: when less is more

I've seen a recurring mistake made by well-versed C++03 programmers when they set out to use rvalue references for the first time. In fa...