Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect in Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. Sean joined Adobe in 1993, working on Photoshop, and is one of the creators of Photoshop Web, Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009, Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993, Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies that allowed Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.
At the first BoostCon in 2007, I gave the keynote address, "A Possible Future of Software Development." Unfortunately, my work in the area stopped just a couple of years later. Adobe's Software Technology Lab 2.0 is picking it back up. What has happened during the last 18 years, and what does the future look like now?
Safety is a hot topic. What do we mean by "safety"? How does it relate to correctness? What about security? This talk proposes a taxonomy of general computer science terminology with specifics about how it applies to C++ and how this better understanding can be used to write Better Code.