POCO C++ Libraries Blog

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New Monthly Downloads Record

Today we’ve finally reached more than 3000 monthly downloads of the POCO C++ Libraries, according to SourceForge download statistics. Still a looong way to go until we reach the 2000+ downloads a day that Boost has, though…


DynamicAny Article in ACCU Overload (II)

The second installment of DynamicAny article has been published in the October issue of ACCU Overload. Speed and code size comparison benchmarks against boost::any and boost::lexical_cast are the topics addressed in this installment. Enjoy.


Website Update (II)

We have made some more progress with the new website, and we will try to do the switch over to the new site next Monday (Oct. 27). The current website will be temporarily unavailable while we make the switch (especially the blog, wiki and forums). Since the change also involves a DNS update, it may […]


POCO IEEE Presentation

On Tuesday, October 21 2008, I’ll have an honor and pleasure of speaking to the members of the Coastal South Carolina IEEE Chapter about open source, C++ and – POCO.


Website Update

Now that the 1.3.3 release is out, it’s time for the next undertaking – the POCO project website update. As discussed previously, we will replace Tiki with MediaWiki and phpBB. During the summer, two interns have written conversion scripts that will move user accounts, wiki pages and the forum content to the new platform. Furthermore, […]


Release 1.3.3p1 Available

I have created a new 1.3.3 release that fixes the Crypto compile error on 64-bit Linux, as well as the broken Makefile in the Zip archive distribution. Also, the README has been updated with a section discussing the external dependencies of NetSSL, Crypto, Data/ODBC and Data/MySQL. The SVN revision for this release is 964 in […]


POCO 1.3.3 Available

I am happy to announce that release 1.3.3 of the POCO C++ Libraries is finally available. More than any other release before, this release was a true community effort. Sergey Kholodilov contributed the MySQL connector for Data, and Ferdinand Beyer contributed the foundation of what now is the Crypto library. Chris Johnson helped bringing POCO […]


Picross anyone?

I finally decided that’s its time to show how one can use the WebWidgets library. The previous sample in the ExtjS/Samples directory is, well, I am not sure if it deserves to be called a sample 🙂 So if you wanted to take a look at WebWidgets and learn how to write your own WebGUIs, […]


Pandora

I just couldn’t resist and preordered one of those. Now I just have to wait till end of November, then we can add the Pandora as an official POCO build target 🙂