Updating my RSSReader from Qt5 to Qt6

published at 10.07.2025 15:59 by Jens Weller
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Never touch a running system is maybe something that you're familiar with. But one day that system stops running, and you decide to get on with the long overdue updates. So this week I've ported my RSSReader for Meeting C++ from Qt5 to Qt6.9.1.

Accidentily celebrating 13 years of Meeting C++ with Jason Turner

published at 27.06.2025 22:45 by Jens Weller
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Today, on the 27th June is the date where Meeting C++ went live with the first announcement about the conference in 2012.

Learning about std::as_const, Qt containers and that detach might not mean what you think

published at 19.06.2025 17:32 by Jens Weller
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Recently I've copied and refactored code that handles the import of attendees for Meeting C++ 2025 from Tito and EventBrite by getting a JSON Document from a web API...

Not a template error after all...

published at 12.06.2025 17:47 by Jens Weller
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I remember seeing the error, looking at the code and wondering what went wrong? And as the error triggered in a template function, I did wonder if I've hit an edge case where my code was subtly wrong. Or did a compiler upgrade make this emerge? The function in question did not error always, just a few times as a runtime error.

What C++ topics are interesting to you or your team right now?

published at 29.05.2025 17:59 by Jens Weller
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As the Meeting C++ 2025 call for talks closes next week, I've been thinking about what are you thinking about in regards of C++?