July Online C/C++ Meetup

Hello Everyone,

It's been a while since we organised a meetup and we hope you're looking forward to attending one. Given the current pandemic situation (hope every one of you is keeping safe!), this event will be held online. Everyone is welcome, no matter where you are located. Just grab your favourite snack and drink and tune in!

Arista (https://www.arista.com/) have kindly offered to provide us access to their virtual conferencing system, so many thanks for that!

The link you can find in the event's info section on the right. You have to RSVP to see it. No need to setup an account or pre-register.

Our aim is to continue delivering high quality technical content, so get ready for another CPPDUG Monday evening, where we'll have the following talks from two veteran speakers:

1. "Developing Emulators for Beginners" by Tim Costigan

Abstract: Through the course of lockdown, I have been developing a playstation one emulator in C/C++. In this talk I would like to talk about why someone might want to develop such an emulator, how one would start, why they would want to do it in C/C++ etc. Half history lesson, half tutorial.

2. "Signal handlers - how they start, and how they end" by Peter Edwards

Abstract: Signals are an ancient mechanism of communicating asynchronous events to C programs. Signals make it so that functions appear to magically get invoked spontaneously as your program runs, with just the odd system call returning and setting errno to EINTR as the only side effect. I'll try and demystify the mechanism by which signal handlers get invoked - how we go from executing your main program, to executing a signal handler, and getting back to where you were interrupted.

Our meetups are open to everyone and we welcome and support diversity. Any form of harassment or discrimination will not be tolerated and we will investigate any reports of such activities and take any action required to prevent them from recurring. Our code of conduct is available here https://cppdug.github.io/codeofconduct and we encourage anyone to share any concerns with the organisers.