Pre-WG21 Meetup

Pre-WG21 Meetup

A summary of the C++ <Belfast> October 2019 meetup, held in CME Group's Belfast offices. Not only did CME host the meetup, bu their own Charlie Nugent delivered a talk as well!

A Trip to Jupyter & Embedded Containers

A Trip to Jupyter & Embedded Containers

A summary of the C++ <Belfast> August 2019 meetup, held in MCS Group's Belfast offices, which saw us joined in person by Neil Horlock, normally based in England but was in town delivering training for Citi. Slides that were presented at the event are also available.

ACCU Autumn 2019

ACCU Autumn 2019

This Autumn on November the 11th and 12th we will see the biggest deep tech event of the year in Belfast: ACCU Autumn 2019 — with some of the biggest names in programming in town for two days and three intense tracks of top quality talks. If you are a developer you'll want to be there!

C++20, Cuppa and the ¡Three Asios!

C++20, Cuppa and the ¡Three Asios!

A summary of the C++ <Belfast> July 2019 meetup, held in TP ICAP's Belfast offices, which saw us joined in person by Chris Kohlhoff, all the way from Australia! Slides that were presented at the event are also available.

Modern C++ Builds and ACCU Autumn Preview

Modern C++ Builds and ACCU Autumn Preview

A summary of the C++ <Belfast> June 2019 meetup, held at the Instil offices, with links to the slides that were presented at the event, including from the updated "A Quick Cuppa" presentation.

C++ is Coming to Belfast

C++ is Coming to Belfast

A summary of the C++ <Belfast> April 2019 meetup with links to the slides that were presented at the event.

ML Conference - Algorithmic Architecture, Real-time AI and the Search for Alpha

ML Conference - Algorithmic Architecture, Real-time AI and the Search for Alpha

Earlier in the month I gave an invited talk at the inaugural ML Conference in Berlin, titled, "Algorithmic Architecture, Real-time AI and the Search for Alpha". The talk looked at the general problem of extracting information from social media and some of the challenges arising from delivering a real-time system to trade from.

Social Media, Real Time AI and the search for Alpha

Social Media, Real Time AI and the search for Alpha

Earlier in the week at JAX Finance I gave a talk titled, "Social Media, Real Time AI and the search for Alpha". The talk looked at the general problem of extracting information from social media and some of the challenges arising from delivering a real-time system to trade off.

The Problem of Finance - Video

The Problem of Finance - Video

In preparing for JAX Finance 2017 I came across the video of my 2016 talk, "The Problem of Finance". I reference that in the talk this year so thought I'd share a link to it here.

Testing the Architecture

Testing the Architecture

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at EXTENT 2016 in the London Stock Exchange. It was a fantastic day and overall an excellent conference. My talk was titled, "Testing the Architecture". The slides are available online as a PDF along with video but the full animated slides are available here.

The Problem of Finance

The Problem of Finance

Two weeks ago at JAX Finance and JAX DevOps I gave a talk titled, "The Problem of Finance". I'm sharing the slides here for those who were not able to make it, or those who wondered if I really did spell blockchain incorrectly!

Managing C++ Build Complexity using Cuppa

Managing C++ Build Complexity using Cuppa

I recently gave a short talk at the ACCU 2016 conference in Bristol titled “Managing C++ Build Complexity using Cuppa”. In fact I ended up giving the talk the shortened name of “A Quick Cuppa: With SCons”. Due to the time restrictions I added some bonus slides to the deck that I presented at the conference. This extended deck is available here.