Roel Standaert

This talk is an introduction to Wt, a server-side web framework written in C++. Wt 4 is the latest version and introduces a more modern C++11-based API.

Wt is a server-side web framework written in C++. Unlike many server-side web frameworks, Wt is widget-based. It is designed to deliver a development experience similar to desktop UI frameworks, abstracting away the underlying web technologies. If JavaScript support is unavailable, it will even fall back to plain HTML automatically. This allows C++ developers to quickly develop highly interactive applications. Because it's written in C++, Wt is especially well-suited for embedded platforms.

Wt 4, released in September 2017, updates its API to use C++11. The result is that the API of Wt 4 is more clear and exception safe, relies on fewer Boost dependencies, and compiles faster.

This talk will be an introduction to Wt 4 for C++ programmers. We will show how to make a "hello world"-style web application with Wt, and demonstrate some selected features of Wt. By the end of the talk, the audience should have enough knowledge to get started with Wt 4. No knowledge of older versions of Wt is required.

Once a year, the students of Leuven congregate to run like hell. Teams of students compete against each other in a 24 hour relay race. ULYSSIS is a student organisation that voluntarily provides many IT services for other students, like providing the automatic lap counting system at the 24 hour run, using their own software called i++. This talk will describe how this lap counting system works and describe the dream I have of a cheap user-friendly system using free and open source software, that would enable other organisations to organise similar events.