POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Herb Sutter About Exception Specifications

An insightful blog entry by Herb Sutter on C++ exception specifications and why they’re best avoided.


pocoproject.org

This website is now also reachable under the pocoproject.org domain. This is the first step in getting the POCO Community Website off the appinf.com domain and server, where it is hosted now. If you want to link to the POCO website, please use the new domain.


Bulletproofing C++ Code

Sergei Sokolov examines interesting techniques at Dr. Dobbs Journal, that improve the stability and reduce the risks of errors for C++ programming. Here a short summary. Step 1. Use Static Analyis Peer code reviews remain the best approach for finding code defects using a human brain to read and understand the code, looking for defects […]


POCO 1.2.8 Released

New year, new POCO release. POCO 1.2.8 is available! This is mostly a bugfix release, although some improvements have been made to the format functions in Foundation. Changelog: – fixed SF# 1613906: Util/Application.h and GCC 3.3 – fixed a byte order issue (failed test) in IPv6 address formatting – fixed SF# 1626640: Poco::Net::SocketReactor bug – […]


.NET Book Zero

If you ever have to code C# in exchange for food and shelter, the free C# book for C++ programmers from Charles Petzold may come handy ;-). Seriously now, I did not read the whole thing, but it looks like a decent introduction text, it’s free and it comes from the author with good reputation, […]


POCO Development Roadmap

I have prepared a Wiki page containing the POCO development roadmap. There’s not much there yet, but this will for sure change in the coming days and weeks. Just keep those feature requests coming…


Happy New Year!

A Happy New Year to all friends of POCO. 2006 was a great year for POCO, with the 1.0 release in January, the adoption of the Boost license in July, and the 1.2 release in August. 2007 will be even better! A big thank you to all who contributed to POCO, in the form of […]