Happy New Year 2010

Tuesday, 05 January 2010

It's already five days into 2010, but I'd like to wish you all a Happy New Year!

2009 was a good year for me. Back in January 2009, my implementation of the C++0x thread library went on sale, and sales have been growing steadily since — there's a new version due out any day now, with support for the new std::async functions and 64-bit Windows. I also presented at the ACCU conference for the second year running and completed the first draft of my book.

It's also been a big year for the C++ community. The biggest change is of course that "Concepts" were taken out of the C++0x draft since they were not ready. On the concurrency front, the proposal for the new std::async functions was accepted, std::unique_future was renamed to just std::future and the destructor of std::thread was changed to call std::terminate rather than detach if the thread has not been joined or detached.

Popular articles

As is my custom, here's a list of the 10 most popular articles and blog entries from the Just Software Solutions website in 2009. The key difference from last year's list is the rise of the C++0x thread library stuff.

1. Implementing a Thread-Safe Queue using Condition Variables
   A description of the issues around writing a thread-safe queue, with code.
2. Implementing drop-down menus in pure CSS (no JavaScript)
   How to implement drop-down menus in CSS in a cross-browser fashion (with a teensy bit of JavaScript for IE).
3. Deadlock Detection with just::thread
   This article describes how to use the special deadlock-detection mode of our just::thread C++0x thread library to locate the cause of deadlocks.
4. 10 Years of Programming with POSIX Threads
   A review of "Programming with POSIX Threads" by David Butenhof, 10 years after publication.
5. just::thread C++0x Thread Library V1.0 Released
   This is the release announcement for our just::thread C++0x thread library.
6. Importing an Existing Windows XP Installation into VirtualBox
   This article describes how I recovered the hard disk of a dead laptop to run as a VM under VirtualBox.
7. Thread Interruption in the Boost Thread Library
   A description of the thread interruption feature of the Boost Thread library.
8. October 2008 C++ Standards Committee Mailing - New C++0x Working Paper, More Concurrency Papers Approved
   My summary of the October 2008 C++ committee mailing featuring the first feature-complete draft of the C++0x standard.
9. Multithreading in C++0x part 1: Starting Threads
   This is the first part of my series on the new C++0x thread library. Links to the remaining parts are at the end of the article.
10. Rvalue References and Perfect Forwarding in C++0x
    An introduction to the new rvalue reference feature of C++0x.

What's coming in 2010?

Will 2010 be even better than 2009? I hope so. There's a new version of just::thread coming soon, and there's another ballot on the C++0x working draft due in the spring. I'll also be presenting at ACCU 2010 in April.

What are you looking forward to in 2010?

Posted by Anthony Williams
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