ACCU 2010 Registrations Open

A few minutes ago, ACCU Conference Chair Giovanni Asproni announced that registrations to ACCU 2010 conference are now open.

ACCU 2010 on April 14-17, 2010. Barcelo Oxford Hotel, Oxford, UK

ACCU :: Security: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

The great line-up of speakers includes among the others Robert Martin (Uncle Bob), Tom Gilb, Andrei Alexandrescu, Walter Bright, Kevlin Henney, Michael Stal , James Coplien, Diomidis Spinellis, John Lakos and many more…

It’s a must-not-miss event!

I started my Open Source Software advantures as a developer around 2002. I haven’t been maintaining a project for longer than a couple of years, but I have decent experience in working with aged and well-settled projects. I have made observations. Here, one talk especially interests me. It should be intesteing to every long time maintainers of Open Source projects based on C++ programming language. It is Renovating a legacy C++ project by noble ACCU member Alan Griffiths.

Video lecture about CMake

Bill Hoffman from Kitware gives presentation about CMake and a pack of related tools to the happiest easygoing working nation on the Earth:

It’s worth to watch if interested in CMake.

LAS Data Triangulation Tool

Two days ago Martin Isenburg announced new tool added to LASTools package (Martin’s tools where used as an inspiration and foundation to build libLAS package). It’s las2tin program:

A little tool available that triangulates LIDAR in LAS format and stores the result either as a (self-contained) OBJ file or as a list of indexed triangles in ASCII format