Thursday, November 17, 2011

Watched at work: "STL with Stephan T. Lavavej"

Lately I've been very busy after work because I had some assignments to submit to the UOC (what I'm doing there), so I haven't posted the links of the last three videos we've watched at work.

We're currently watching a series of talks about the STL library published in Microsoft's Channel 9 by Stephan T. Lavavej who is a software engineer that works developing and maintaining Microsoft's STL version. I like his talks very much.
These are the ones we've watched so far:
  1. Sequence Containers.
  2. Associative Containers. 
  3. Smart Pointers.
There are a lot of videos about C++ in C9.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Interesting Talk: "So you think you need a rewrite?"

I've just watched this great talk about what I'm currently working on: a rewrite.
It contains a lot of pearls of wisdom.
They also recommended the book Working effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers.
Coincidentally, I'm reading this book at the moment and I'm loving it. I think it's interesting to read it even if you're not working with legacy code because it makes you think a lot about dependencies, design and tests.

Watched at work: "Panel on C++11"

Today we watched another talk about C++11:
This talk was part of the C++ and beyond 2011.
The content of the talk was really deep and advanced (at least for my current C++ level). Still, I found some parts of it very interesting and useful. The speakers are top guys in C++.