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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Time for another POCO bugfix release. 1.2.9 fixes various bugs and brings some performance improvements, most notable in the HTTP classes. Sergey N. Yatskevich contributed various patches for this release – thank you! Please see the CHANGELOG for the details.
An insightful blog entry by Herb Sutter on C++ exception specifications and why they’re best avoided.