On April 23rd, 2020 WhiteSource will be holding its annual Secure Coding Virtual Summit. I will be giving a talk at 11:30 AM EST called Secure Coding Best Practices. This is a language agnostic talk…Continue Reading

This Saturday in Prague, Czech Republic the C++ ISO Standards Committee voted in the C++20 standard. This is huge update to the standard three years in the making. Almost 250 committee members and observers attended…Continue Reading

For those of you in the Denver Metro area, SnowFROC ’20 is the premier applications security conference. The one day conference is held annually at The Cable Center in Denver, CO. This year the conference…Continue Reading

TomTom is hosting their annual Hackathon in Eindhoven, The Netherlands November 19 – 21. This is a gathering of over 500 engineers working on cutting edge, safety critical systems. Working in teams they solve some…Continue Reading

This past week I returned from giving a keynote and two talks at Cpp-Summit 2019 in Shanghai, China. The trip marked a lot of firsts for me including, my first time at the conference, my…Continue Reading

Whether you write software that runs in insecure environments, safety critical systems that protect lives or just software that has to survive whatever your users throw at it that day, building highly dependable software begins…Continue Reading

At the end of the month, I will be traveling to China to attend the C++ Development Technology Summit in Shanghai. The conference is the weekend of November 2-3 and I will be giving two…Continue Reading

My CppCon 2019 talk, If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It is now up on YouTube. Anthony Williams, author of “C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading“, was in the audience and mentioned the…Continue Reading

I did an interview this week with Kevin Carpenter. We talk about my class at CppCon this year, Exploiting Modern C++: Building Highly-Dependable Software, the ISO committee and my talk, If You Can’t Open It,…Continue Reading

I’ve updated my CppCon 2019 class abstract to clear up some confusion. This is not a class that will turn you into a hacker. Sorry, but there are other classes for that. This is a…Continue Reading