POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


POCO and Twitter

In the upcoming 1.3.4 release there will be a new sample application for the Net library that implements a simple Twitter client that can be used to send status updates to Twitter. Apart from being fun to implement and providing useful Twitter client functionality, this sample also shows how to combine Poco::Net::HTTPClientSession, Poco::Net::HTMLForm, Poco::Net::HTTPBasicCredentials and […]


POCO on Tiny Hardware

We recently got our hands on a Digi Connect ME 9210, one of the smallest Linux-capable embedded computers in the world. The system, which is just a bit larger than an Ethernet RJ-45 socket, is based on an ARM9 CPU running at 75 MHz. With 4 MB of Flash and 8 MB or DRAM, the […]

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Plans and Roadmap

With the 1.4 release now delayed for a few more weeks, we will put out a 1.3.4 release in February. Focus of this release will be bugfixes (the known bugs in 1.3.3), performance improvements (I am currently spending some time with valgrind/kcachgrind) and other minor improvements. After that, we’ll hopefully finish 1.4 for a release […]


Season’s Greetings

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone using and contributing to the POCO C++ Libraries. 2008 was a great year for the POCO Project, and 2009 will be even better!


New POCO Website

The new POCO website is finally online. As discussed previously, we have replaced the Tiki with phpBB and MediaWiki. For forum access, all forum users must reset their password. Posting Blog comments and editing the Wiki does not require an account, although we suggest you log yourself into the Wiki before you edit a page. […]


Bjarne Stroustrup Interview

There is a new interview with Bjarne Stroustrup on the Geek of the Week site where Bjarne mentions POCO along with Boost and Qt. We’re finally being recognized. Even more, Bjarne now also has a link to POCO on his website (look at the bottom – we’re described as “Web development support library”) 🙂


Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating.


Fun With Mindstorms®, POCO and the iPhone™ Accelerometer

Here at Applied Informatics, we like to have fun at work. We recently built a Mindstorms vehicle that’s remote controlled by the iPhone’s accelerometer. To add some POCO touch to it, the iPhone does not talk directly to the Mindstorms NXT, but to a Digi ConnectCore 9P running Linux and a POCO-based application. Connected to […]

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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…


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 […]