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An interesting idea: the Programmer Competency Matrix

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I have just added Sockets library with local (aka UNIX) sockets support to SVN sandbox. The code was extracted from Net library and slightly modified to accommodate for UNIX sockets. For the time being, tested only on Linux. I’ll do Solaris testing as well, whoever can run it on other platforms, please do and report […]

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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 […]

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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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For those folks who are wondering what’s been going on, when is there going to be next release etc, here’s the answer: Prior to 1.3.3 release, I voluntarily took over taking care of the ongoing project maintenance. Then Guenter kicked in for 1.3.3 release, did the great deal of work and early October we pushed […]

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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!

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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”) 🙂

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating.

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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, […]

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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 🙂

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