POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Plans for a POCO Cookbook

In the forum, we’re discussing the idea of collaboratively writing a POCO cookbook. Anyone willing to contribute ideas, text, sample code or proofreading time is invited to join the discussion in the forum.


POCO On iOS Devices

I have posted some ticks and tricks for using POCO in iPhone/iPod/iPad projects in the forum.


C++ Software Engineer Wanted (San Francisco Bay Area)

Neural ID is looking for a C++ software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. The details are in this post in our new Jobs forum.


Using POCO in MFC Applications

I just posted a few notes on using POCO in MFC applications in the forum.


Mailing List Changes

In order to consolidate and focus our support resources there will be some changes to our mailing list policy. Experience over the past years has shown that more than 90 % of all support questions are already asked in the forum. In order to build up a central knowledge base and provide a single point […]


Meet Us At Embedded World

Meet us at Embedded World 2011, March 1—3 2011 in Nürnberg, Germany. I will give a talk on Thursday, March 3, 13:30—14:00, titled Introduction to Web Services for Embedded Developers. Applied Informatics will not have a booth at the exhibition, but we invite you to take the opportunity to meet us during the event. To […]


POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.4.1p1 Available

Release 1.4.1 is a bugfix/patch release that fixes two issues introduced in 1.4.1. On Linux, Poco::Mutex is not recursive, which may cause code requiring on recursiveness of Poco::Mutex to deadlock. This was introduced in 1.4.1 due to a wrong compile-time check for availability of PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (which is an enum value and not a macro). The […]


MongoDB Subsystem for POCO

Danny Tylman has created a Mongo subsystem for POCO that acts as a native client to MongoDB. Looks very interesting. Check it out at http://mongosubsystem.sourceforge.net/.


POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.4.1 Available

Release 1.4.1 of the POCO C++ Libraries is now available. This release contains bugfixes, some performance improvements and a few new features. As always, the CHANGELOG has all the details. Upgrading is recommended for all users of 1.4.0. Also included in this release is experimental support for VxWorks (5.5.1 or newer). Full support for VxWorks […]


Introducing my-devices.net

We are proud to introduce our latest product, built with POCO: my-devices.net. my-devices.net is a web and cloud-based platform enabling secure remote access to the built-in web server of smart devices such as industrial automation systems, smart home devices, monitoring and control systems for heating, solarthermal or photovoltaic plants, and similar systems. With my-devices.net, any […]