Evidence of a widespread use is important part of becoming a mainstream framework and raising a potential user confidence. From that standpoint, POCO is not quite there yet, at least not “officially”. We do get frequent hits from many commercial entities, but only a small subset is factually verified and listed to use POCO. This […]
There were three significant changes to the SVN trunk and sandbox recently: Data keywords (use, into, et al.) were moved into Poco::Data::Keywords namespace. All the IO stuff (both sync and async) was moved from Foundation and Net to IO and IO::Socket All the Serial stuff was moved from IO to IO::Serial All these changes do […]
Sergey Kholodilov was kind enough to share his work with us and now we have MySQL Data connector for POCO. At this time, it is only available from SVN and tested with 1.3.3 branch code on Windows, FreeBSD and Linux. POCO community very much appreciates your contribution, Sergey.
Earlier this week, I have attended Stroustrup and Sutter on C++ session at the SD West 2008 conference in Santa Clara, CA. As usual, session was packed with information mainly focused on the upcoming standard, the multi-core revolution we are are just starting to witness and a healthy dose of humor from both speakers and […]
A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects may be of interest to any non-lawyer involved with open source.
There’s been some interest recently for the topic in the mailing list and feature request tracker, so I have decided to import some code I’ve put together during my grad school days. It is still very rudimentary – PocoScript front-end library with one back-end for now – PocoLua. At this point, it is possible to […]
I have just submitted a first attempt of PocoPDF into the SVN sandbox. It is a wrapper for the Haru PDF library. Haru depends on zlib and libpng, so full source for all three is embedded in PocoPDF. Submitted code works and it comes with two samples – one showing how to create a text […]
I love things that “just work”. Ubuntu distro is supposed to be one of those things. Some time ago, I tried to install it on an old laptop and ended up with LCD panel split in three screens (I’m not kidding) and mouse popping up all over the place. Then I tried Mepis and I […]
OK, forget about the step I mentioned before – it’s gone and we have true bulk instead. For the drivers/connectors that support it properly, that is. Namely, when one gets into implementation of more advanced features, some ODBC drivers simply do not live up to the expectations. I was not able to find PostgreSQL driver […]
A couple of new features supported by PocoData: multiple resultsets (for batches of statements and stored procedures/functions returning cursors) step – variable number of fetched rows Date and Time binding/extraction (in addition to DateTime) The step feature only works for connectors that support it (e.g. ODBC), otherwise it is silently ignored (e.g. SQLite). Date and […]