POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


POCO 1.3 Update

POCO 1.3 is coming along nicely. Yesterday I have added a Condition (as in POSIX condition variable) class. As soon as I had finished it, Mark Swaanenburg from the Netherlands sent me his own implementation, which he developed independently. Seems like we need better coordination among our contributors 😉 Anyway, today I did some testing […]


POCO 1.3 is Coming!

We are currently hard at work finishing the 1.3 release of POCO. Highlights of the new version will be official release of the Data library, the addition of Tuple and DynamicAny, HashMap and HashSet, shared memory support and lots of other improvements and bugfixes. Expect a preview release next week. The final release will be […]


Have you ever seen anything like STL?

I have to share what happened to me today. But, first, a Meyers’ quote from “Effective STL”: “… in the nearly 30 years I’ve been programming, I’ve never seen anything like STL. You probably haven’t either.” Now my story: I’m developing this app on top of an old DB which is, well, full of data […]


Wear a Cool POCO T-Shirt!

Hi POCO Maniacs! Express your POCO unity! Share your POCO passion with others! Share with the community your Project Showcase, your insights, learnings with POCO! The senders of the first 10 published showcases will get one T-Shirt. Please send it together with your contact information to poco@appinf.com. Here a first impression. T-Shirt Front T-Shirt Back


POCO Article in ACCU Journal

The latest issue of CVu, one of the fine magazines of the ACCU, has published my article A Guided Tour of the POCO C++ Libraries, which gives an overview of the POCO libraries, with code samples. I hope this will help to make POCO known to an even wider audience. And at this point, welcome […]