I’ve already announced the brilliant and provocative presentation given by Andrei Alexandrescu titled Iterators Must Go!.
Here is video of Andrei’s keynote digged to boostcon.blip.tv:
It may seem this is a C++ oriented presentation, but in fact it’s more related to software design, design patterns and idioms, interface oriented design, programming by contract and…shortly, it’s really worthwhile to watch, during lunchtime of course ;-), and enjoy!
Those of you who use Visual Studio in daily work have probably noticed there is has been new security update issued for Active Template Library. The Channel 9 also published very interesting webcast in which three engineers from Microsoft explain what’s inside the update for ATL.
Developers who have built controls using vulnerable versions of ATL should take immediate action to review and identify any vulnerabilities, modify and recompile their affected controls and components using the updated versions of ATL and finally distribute a non-vulnerable version of the controls and components to their customers.
Along with security fixes, the update includes one more interesting feature. Damien Watkins announced (12 min 20 sec) that now:
you can include ATL as a kind of header only implementation
I suppose, it may make it easier to port ATL features to development environments produced by parties like MinGW, so users of these will likely be able to use Windows Template Library (WTL) based on ATL. I’m dreaming, am I?
Inside the Active Template Library (ATL) Security Update | Jul 28th @ 10:02 AM
Tomorrow early morning I’m leaving to Nottingham to attend the OSGIS UK 2009 conference. It’s been long time since FOSS4G 2007 and I didn’t make it to Cape Town last year, so I’m looking forward to meet FOSS4G and OSGeo folks in UK.
A few minutes ago, Suchith Anand announced there will be live streaming transmission available from OSGIS sessions. This is cool!
By the way, does anyone remember a kind of pioneer transmission from FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne? The videos are still linked but seem to be unavailable. Pity. It would be cool to archive them somewhere on foss4g.org.