Accidentily celebrating 13 years of Meeting C++ with Jason Turner

published at 27.06.2025 22:45 by Jens Weller
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Today, on the 27th June is the date where Meeting C++ went live with the first announcement about the conference in 2012.

Learning about std::as_const, Qt containers and that detach might not mean what you think

published at 19.06.2025 17:32 by Jens Weller
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Recently I've copied and refactored code that handles the import of attendees for Meeting C++ 2025 from Tito and EventBrite by getting a JSON Document from a web API...

Not a template error after all...

published at 12.06.2025 17:47 by Jens Weller
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I remember seeing the error, looking at the code and wondering what went wrong? And as the error triggered in a template function, I did wonder if I've hit an edge case where my code was subtly wrong. Or did a compiler upgrade make this emerge? The function in question did not error always, just a few times as a runtime error.

What C++ topics are interesting to you or your team right now?

published at 29.05.2025 17:59 by Jens Weller
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As the Meeting C++ 2025 call for talks closes next week, I've been thinking about what are you thinking about in regards of C++?

Experimenting with AI Chatbots for C++

published at 28.04.2025 20:30 by Jens Weller
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Writing down my thoughts and experiences with vibe coding C++ with chatbots. I've recently played around with Grok, ChatGPT and Claude to get a feeling if they'd be useful for simple or more complex coding tasks.