POCO C++ Libraries Blog

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About things to come

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The Quality Without a Name

It’s been a while now since I’ve read The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander, but had no time to comment on it. The central theme of the book is the quality without a name. Well, since Alexander found no name for it, I certainly shall not attempt to do it either. But this […]


The State of Data::ODBC

For those folks who have expressed interest in Data library, I’ve been spending some time these days with it and here is the current state of the affairs: – I found a couple of bugs (logged in SF): 1723148 1724388 Drivers passing all tests: Windows: MS Access, DB2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLServer, SQLite3 Linux (unixODBC): […]


POCO Kick-Start Trainings

Are you planning a POCO based project or are you already in the middle of it and want to receive expert knowledge face-to-face? Here is what Peter Thulin, Technical Lead at TAC said about a recent training: “With the POCO Kick-Start Training we received expert knowledge directly from one of POCO’s developers. Through the training […]


Events and Delegates – or fun with templates

Were you ever in a situation where you wrote a piece of code, used it, loved it and half a year later you use it again and well, somehow your expectations have risen? That happened to me with the events of POCO. If you used them, you are probably famliar with that code: Poco::BasicEvent<const std::string> […]


What’s Your Cup of Java?

Interesting things are happening. While Steve Jobs, explaining why iPhone comes Java-less, says: “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”, on Artima some folks are lamenting about their frustration with Java ME. In the mean time, Symbian goes POSIX. And last but not least: the last […]


POCO Data is Available

POCO Data is now available for download. This is the first release of Data, and in order to get this release out sooner, some planned features are still missing (full ODBC Unicode support on Windows, DateTime support). Nevertheless, I am quite happy with the result for now, and hope you will be too. The documentation […]


POCO 1.3 is Out!

I am happy to announce the official release and availability of POCO 1.3! Here’s a summary of what is new in 1.3: HashMap and HashSet classes (Foundation) Tuple class template (Foundation) SharedMemory class (Foundation) FileStream, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream classes that support Unicode (UTF-8) filenames on Windows (Foundation) improvements and bugfixes in the Net library, mostly HTTP […]


POCO 1.3 Snapshot Available

Since yesterday’s post was lost due to the server failure, here is the announcement again: A prerelease snapshot of the upcoming POCO 1.3 release is now available for download from Sourceforge. The release is now basically feature complete; the only thing missing from the snapshot is the Data library, which will be part of the […]


Server Failure

Yesterday, at around 8 pm CEST, the server that hosts this website had a hardware failure, which caused this site to become offline until around today, 6:30 pm. Unfortunately, any weblog and forum entries made yesterday have not been backed up and are lost. We are sorry for the inconvenience. This site is served by […]