ACCU 2019 Schedule

10:00

Accelerated TDD: For More Productive C++

Phil Nash

Python Best Practices

Austin Bingham

Evolutionary Algorithms in Practice

Christopher Simons
Frances Buontempo

A Comprehensive Introduction to Rust

Katharina Fey

ACCU Conference 101: an Early Career Tutorial

Gail Ollis
Roger Orr
Giovanni Asproni
Kevlin Henney
Arjan van Leeuwen

18:00

Break

19:00

Agile Bath & Bristol User Group Meeting (Empire)

09:30

Delivering software that is secure and usable - who’s job is it?

M Angela Sasse
(video)

10:30

Break

11:00

Higher-order functions and function_ref

Vittorio Romeo
(slides) / (video)

How C++20 Can Simplify std::tuple

Alisdair Meredith
(video)

Be your own Threatbuster!

Natalia Oskina
Giovanni Asproni
(video)

Have Fun And Learn Kotlin

Uberto Barbini

JSR-385: Learning from the 125 Million Dollar Mars Climate Orbiter Mistake

Filip van laenen
(video)

12:30

Lunch

14:00

10 Techniques to Understand Code You Don’t Know

Jonathan Boccara
(slides) / (video)

An Adventure in Race Conditions

Felix Petriconi
(slides) / (video)

Snakes Into Snake Oil - What Blockchains Are And Why They’re Terrible

Jez Higgins
(slides) / (video)

(continuation of 180 minute workshop)

Ranges for distributed and asynchronous systems

Ivan Čukić
(slides) / (video)

15:30

Break

16:00

Navigating the development and evolution of a library

Marshall Clow
(slides) / (video)

How does Git actually work?

Andy Balaam
CB Bailey
(slides) / (video)

The Anatomy of an Exploit

Patricia Aas
(slides) / (video)

Helping Developers to Help Each Other

Gail Ollis
(video)

#Hashing

Dietmar Kühl
(slides) / (video)

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning Talks (1 hour, Bristol Suite)

19:00

Welcome Reception

09:30

De-fragmenting C++: Making exceptions more affordable and usable

Herb Sutter
(slides) / (video)

10:30

Break

11:00

Going Multiplatform with Kotlin

Supriya Srivatsa
(slides) / (video)

Here’s my number; call me, maybe. Callbacks in a multithreaded world

Anthony Williams
(slides) / (video)

Secure by Design - Security Principles for the Working Developer

Eoin Woods
(slides) / (video)

More GDB wizardry and 8 other essential Linux application debugging tools

Greg Law
(slides) / (video)

Audio in standard C++

Timur Doumler
(video)

12:30

Lunch

12:45

Book Signings: Anthony Williams, Frances Buontempo, Ivan Čukić, Jonathan Boccarra (Conservatory)

13:45

14:00

What Do We Mean When We Say Nothing At All?

Kate Gregory
(slides) / (video)

Optimising a small real-world C++ application

Hubert Matthews
(video)

What are hash trees and why you should care

Ahto Truu
(slides) / (video)

How Kotlin makes your Java code better

Andy Balaam
(slides) / (video)

Leave your C behind: better embedded library interfaces with modern C++

Wouter van Ooijen
(video)

15:30

Break

16:00

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Austin Bingham
(slides) / (video)

Hello World from Scratch

Peter Bindels
Simon Brand
(slides) / (video)

Monitoring: Turning Noise into Signal

Chris Oldwood
(slides) / (video)

Teach Your Computer to Code FizzBuzz

Christopher Simons
Frances Buontempo
(slides) / (video)

C++ Pub Quiz

Felix Petriconi
(slides)

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning Talks (1 hour, Bristol Suite)

19:15

Girl Geeks
(Please register)

Audio Developer Meetup

09:30

From nothing to too much: growing a tech community in the East of England

Paul Grenyer
(video)

10:30

Break

11:00

Implementing Physical Units Library for C++

Mateusz Pusz
(slides) / (video)

Interactive C++ : Meet Jupyter / Cling - The data scientist’s geeky younger sibling

Neil Horlock
(video)

It’s People! Code is made out of people!

Dom Davis
(slides) / (video)

A modern, scalable risk system architecture

Burkhard Kloss
(slides) / (video)

It’s DNS, Jim, but not as we know it

Jim Hague
(slides) / (video)

12:30

Lunch

12:45

Code Club Workshop (Conservatory) bring your own laptop

13:45

14:00

GPU programming with modern C++

Michael Wong
(slides) / (video)

Taming Dynamic Memory - An Introduction to Custom Allocators

Andreas Weis
(slides) / (video)

The cell as a computer: Turing complete and massively parallel.

Andy Thomason
(slides) / (video)

Fighting Git Workflows

Victor Ciura
(slides) / (video)


Effective replacement of dynamic polymorphism with std::variant

Mateusz Pusz
(slides) / (video)


The Story of Villagers, Marbles and Oh, A Blockchain

Supriya Srivatsa
(slides) / (video)


Assume Worst Intent (Designing for the Abusive Ex)

Alex Chan
(video)

M-PIN Authentication in Vehicle Tracking

Giorgio Zoppi
(slides) / (video)


Software Visualization: The humane solution

Eberhard Gräther
(slides) / (video)


Tailored static tooling using Clang: Clazy

Jean-Michaël Celerier
(video)


The Jai Programming Language and What Can We Learn From It

Sas Luca
(video)

15:30

Break

16:00

Programming with Contracts in C++20

Björn Fahller
(slides) / (video)

The State of Package Management in C++

Mathieu Ropert
(slides) / (video)

Monotron - a 1980s style home computer written in Rust

Jonathan Pallant
(slides) / (video)

Elsewhere Memory

Niall Douglas
(slides) / (video)

C++ ecosystem: For better, for worse

Anastasia Kazakova
(slides) / (video)

17:30

Break

17:45

Lightning Talks (1 hour)

19:45

Conference Dinner (19:45 for drinks, 20:15 service)

22:15

Echoborg

09:30

Safe and Sane C++ Types

Peter Sommerlad
(slides) / (video)

What Do You Mean?

Kevlin Henney
(slides) / (video)

The Dawn Of A New Error

Phil Nash
(video)

Nim - the first natively compiled language with full support for hot code-reloading at runtime

Viktor Kirilov
(slides) / (video)

Clean(er) Code for Large Scale Legacy Applications

Arne Mertz
(slides) / (video)

11:00

Break

11:30

CPU optimized data structures - more fun with assembler

CB Bailey
(video)

Windows Native API

Roger Orr
(slides) / (video)

Allocator-Aware (AA) Software

John Lakos
(slides) / (video)

Haxe: An understated powerhouse for software development

George Corney
(slides) / (video)

Regular Types and Why Do I Care ?

Victor Ciura
(slides) / (video)

13:00

Lunch

13:30

ACCU AGM, Empire

14:15

14:30

Best practices when accessing Big Data or any other data!

Rosemary Francis
(slides) / (video)

Extending clang-tidy in the Present and in the Future

Stephen Kelly
(video)

How to Teach C++ and Influence a Generation

Christopher Di Bella
(video)

Bootstrapped by Boost

Thomas Guest
(video)

A New Open Source Virtual File System – running on Windows in User mode!

James Cain
(video)


Go Get Better

Dom Davis
(video)

16:00

Break

16:30

Emotional Code

Kate Gregory
(slides) / (video)

18:00

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