Microsoft’s Channel 9 has just published the video of the final session from C&B 2011, our “Ask Us Anything!” panel. As one might expect from a session with such an open-ended charter, the topics were all over the map. Charles Torre at Channel 9 included the following table of contents in his post announcing the video:

[00:10] On strings, UTF-8 vs UTF-16, etc…

[03:08] How does the ISO C++ standards committee work?

[04:34] On shared_ptr performance and correctness

[11:30] What C++ work do you guys do outside of your real jobs?

[14:51] Implementations of atomic…

[17:07] Memory consistency model…

[22:13] Favorite C++11 features…

[24:23] What’s next for the standard’s committee?

[25:55] How to convince your company it’s OK to use templates now (C++11)…

[28:30] Favorite feature that’s not in the C++11 standard…

[30:44] What’s the deal with systematic and principled thread termination and program termination?

[36:22] Concepts…

[36:55] What’s going on with constexpr?

[41:51] When will we see Effective/Exceptional C++ books for C++11?

Many thanks to Charles and Channel 9 for their hard work in making this and the other videos from C&B 2011 available. A lot more goes into it than just setting up a camera and hitting “Record.”

This is the final video that will be posted from C&B 2011, but that means we can turn our attention to C&B 2012. I’ll make a formal announcement about that later this week, but this much I can tell you now: C&B 2012 will take place August 5-8, and it will be in the Eastern Time Zone of the USA. Details are coming soon!

Scott