At the end of the Monday afternoon session, I will be making a special announcement related to Standard C++ on all platforms. Be there to hear the details, and to receive an extra perk that’s being reserved for C&B 2012 attendees only.
- Note: We sometimes record sessions and make them freely available online via Channel 9, and we intend to do that again this year for some selected sessions. However, this session is for C&B attendees only and will not be recorded.
Registration is open until Wednesday and the event is pretty full but a few spaces are still available. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you there for a top-notch C++ conference full of fresh new current material – I’ve seen Andrei’s and Scott’s talk slides too, and I think this C&B is going to be the best one yet.
You’ll leave exhausted, but with a full brain and quite likely a big silly grin as you think about all the ways to use the material right away on your current project back home.
July 30, 2012 at 8:42 am
Hi Herb,
Please reconsider the recording of the event.
Consider colleagues who are on the other side of the world.
Thank you.
July 30, 2012 at 9:00 am
This just smells bad. The chair of the ISO C++ standards committee making a special announcement related to Standard C++, but doing so in a way to drive more revenue for him and his friends? For those of us 1) trying to drive more adoption of C++11 within our organizations and 2) unable to attend the event for scheduling conflict reasons, this just smells of bad taste if I am allowed to mix those metaphors.
July 30, 2012 at 9:02 am
Wow, C++ for rich americans only.
July 30, 2012 at 9:51 am
I see I was unclear and/or there’s some confusion, so please let me try to clarify three things:
Meta
For the better part of 20 years now, I’ve made virtually all of my articles and talks freely available online, and I continue to do so this year with GoingNative 2012 and C&B 2012 (see below). Please check out gotw.ca and herbsutter.com for examples. For why this one mini-session isn’t going to be available online yet, see also below.
C&B and other recordings
People may be forgetting that we did record quite a few sessions of C&B 2011 and made those recordings freely available for on-demand viewing. We just reposted the links to this blog two months ago — see list below.[*] Those talks have a total of just under 500,000 (half a million) free-as-in-beer views so far as of this writing, which is well over 1,000x the “live views” of people in the room for those same sessions.
We intend to make many C&B 2012 sessions available the same way, even more than last year — the list of C&B 2012 sessions to make freely available on-demand is currently contemplated to include all the panels, probably all four(!) of my final talk sessions (including both part 1 and part 2 of my brand-new half-day atomics talk, a new C++ concurrency talk, and my announced “You don’t know [keyword] and [keyword]” mystery talk whose slides I’m not even putting into the attendee printed handouts because I want it to be a surprise the day of the event)… and at least one other talk I know of.
Also, please remember that Channel 9 and I personally organized the fully-free-online GoingNative event earlier this year, at considerable organizational effort and expense not just by us but also by the world’s best C++ speakers who participated. Check it out for two solid days of free top-notch C++ content including multiple fresh new talks and panels by Bjarne Stroustrup, Andrei, and myself, as well as others. Link: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012 .
Clarification of this announcement
The special announcement is for something that I will indeed announce publicly soon as soon as it’s fully ready for prime time, and that will be freely available to everyone. Had it been ready in time for C&B, I would have tried for a free *live* webcast (at my own expense), which I did investigate. Since it’s not quite ready for that, C&B attendees will get a sneak preview, which follows naturally from what C&B is primarily about — face time and interaction with the experts. Remember the major selling point of C&B is not just the content, much of which we make available for free, but the speakers being physically present before/during/after sessions for interaction and collaboration, and that’s exactly why I’m doing this — collaborating face-to-face with ~100 of the world’s top C++ experts there in the same room on a cool new project to get their pre-release input and feedback. The whole world will get to see it and use it — yes, for free — later this year, including all the improvements we’ll make between now and then including based on C&B attendee interaction and feedback. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
Thanks,
Herb
[*] C&B 2011 talks freely available online include:
http://cppandbeyond.com/2012/05/14/from-the-archive-video-of-c-and-beyond-2011-intro-c-renaissance/
http://cppandbeyond.com/2012/05/17/from-the-archive-cb-2011-panel-on-c11/
http://cppandbeyond.com/2012/05/21/from-the-archive-cb-2011-panel-on-concurrency-and-parallelism/
http://cppandbeyond.com/2012/05/24/from-the-archive-cb-2011-ask-us-anything-session/
July 30, 2012 at 10:38 am
Thank you Herb. I didn’t mean to offend you, I just wanted you to remember how large and heterogeneous the C++ community is around the world. I bought all your books, Scott’s and Andrei’s books and the whole C++ In Depth series.There are many other programmers like me who want and need to follow your articles and talks. Our reaction is just a way to make you feel our disappointment when something so important cannot be available to us all. Thanks for clarifying that.
July 30, 2012 at 11:33 am
Is it fair that people who can benefit from these sessions paid for it. There are people who are devoting their time to this work.
I can’t attend the conference, as a matter of distance, but I would like to access the material, either free or paid.
Thanks to Herb, Scott, Andrei and others for all their effort and voluntary dedication to C++.
August 17, 2012 at 11:02 am
The announcement was something an ISOCPP.ORG website for C++11 documentation & news & collaboration. See, e.g., this blog post: http://s151836.gridserver.com/blog/2012/08/final-names-confirmed-isocpp.org-isocpp
August 17, 2012 at 11:03 am
The announcement was something about an ISOCPP.ORG website for C++11 documentation, news, & collaboration. See, e.g., this blog post: http://s151836.gridserver.com/blog/2012/08/final-names-confirmed-isocpp.org-isocpp