Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition by Antony Polukhin

Key FeaturesLearn to use the Boost libraries to simplify your application developmentLearn to develop high quality, fast and portable applicationsLearn the relations between Boost and C++11/C++4/C++17Book DescriptionIf you want to take advantage of the real power of Boost and C++ and avoid the confusion about which library to use in which situation, then this book is for you.Beginning with the basics of Boost C++, you will move on to learn how the Boost libraries simplify application development. You will learn to convert data such as string to numbers, numbers to string, numbers to numbers and more. Managing resources will become a piece of cake. Youll see what kind of work can be done at compile time and what Boost containers can do. You will learn everything for the development of high quality fast and portable applications. Write a program once and then you can use it on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android operating systems. From manipulating images to graphs, directories, timers, files, networking – everyone will find an interesting topic.Be sure that knowledge from this book wont get outdated, as more and more Boost libraries become part of the C++ Standard.What you will learnGet familiar with new data types for everyday useUse smart pointers to manage resourcesGet to grips with compile-time computations and assertionsUse Boost libraries for multithreadingLearn about parallel execution of different taskPerform common string-related tasks using Boost librariesSplit all the processes, computations, and interactions to tasks and process them independentlyLearn the basics of working with graphs, stacktracing, testing and interprocess communicationsExplore different helper macros used to detect compiler, platform and Boost featuresAbout the AuthorIf you are wondering who is Antony Polukhin and could he be trusted to teach about C++ and Boost libraries, then here are some facts:Antony Polukhin currently represents Russia in international C++ standardization committeeHe is the author of multiple Boost libraries and maintains (keeps an eye on) some of the old Boost librariesHe is a perfectionist: all the source codes from the book are auto tested on multiple platforms using different C++ standards. But lets start from the beginning.Antony Polukhin was born in Russia. As a child, he could speak the Russian and Hungarian languages and learned English at school. Since his school days, he was participating in different mathematics, physics, and chemistry competitions and winning them.He was accepted into University twice: once for taking part in a city mathematics competition and again for gaining high score in an Universitys mathematics and physics challenge. In his university life, there was a year when he did not participate in exams at all: he gained As in all disciplines by writing highly difficult programs for each teacher. He met his future wife in university and graduated with honors.For more than three years, he worked in a VoIP company developing business logic for a commercial alternative to Asterisc. During those days he started contributing to Boost and became a maintainer of the Boost.LexicalCast library. He also started making translations to Russian for Ubuntu Linux at that time.Today, he works for Yandex Ltd., helps Russian speaking people with C++ standardization proposals, continues to contribute to the open source and to the C++ language in general. You may find his code in Boost libraries such as Any, Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, Stacktrace, TypeTraits, Variant, and others.He has been happily married for more than five years.Table of ContentsSTARTING TO WRITE YOUR APPLICATIONMANAGING RESOURCESCONVERTING AND CASTINGCOMPILE-TIME TRICKSMULTITHREADINGMANIPULATING TASKSMANIPULATING STRINGSMETAPROGRAMMINGCONTAINERSGATHERING PLATFORM AND COMPILER INFORMATIONWORKING WITH THE SYSTEMSCRATCHING THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG