Discover std::shared_ptr internals

I have written an article about C++ resource management and shared_ptr<T> template internals. It’s a free traduction and comment of Scott Meyers Item 19 of its new book : “Effective Modern C++”.

It will be available in February 2018 edition of french magazine Programmez.

 

A REST Web API using C++

For the November edition of french magazine Programmez, I have written an article about how to use the C++ REST SDK from Microsoft. It was called “casablanca”…

 

My favorites C++ books

There are various books about C++. The reference manuals and the optimizations ones. For example, Addison Wesley has a serie called “C++ In-Depth – Bjarne Stroustrup” also called the red books. Look at this titles:

• Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, Andrew Koenig
  and Barbara E. Moo
• Applied C++: Practical Techniques for Building Better Software, Philip Romanik and Amy Muntz
• The Boost Graph Library: User Guide and Reference Manual, Jeremy G. Siek, Lie-Quan Lee, and Andrew Lumsdaine
• C++ Network Programming, Volume 1: Mastering Complexity Using ACE and Patterns, Douglas C. Schmidt and Stephen D. Huston
• C++ Network Programming, Volume 2: Systematic Reuse with ACE and Frameworks, Douglas C. Schmidt and Stephen D. Huston
• C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond, David Abrahams, Aleksey Gurtovoy
• Essential C++, Stanley B. Lippman
• Exceptional C++ Style 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions, Herb Sutter
• Exceptional C++; 47 Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems,
  and Solutions, Herb Sutter
• Modern C++ Design: Applied Generic Programming and Design Patterns,
  Andrei Alexandrescu
• More Exceptional C++: 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions, Herb Sutter

Not in the serie:

• Effective C++ Third Edition, 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs, Scott Meyers

The book of the language is:

• The C++ programming language, Fourth edition, Bjarne Stroustrup

The books to understand rapidly the new features of C++11 is:

• A Tour of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup
• C++ Primer, Fifth Edition, Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara E. Moo

The book to understand the compilers is:

• Inside the C++ Object Model, Stanley B. Lippman

The book to learn the STL:

• The C++ standard library : a tutorial and reference, 2nd Edition, Nicolai M. Josuttis