Were you ever in a situation where you wrote a piece of code, used it, loved it and half a year later you use it again and well, somehow your expectations have risen? That happened to me with the events of POCO. If you used them, you are probably famliar with that code: Poco::BasicEvent<const std::string> […]
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 […]
I have to share what happened to me today. But, first, a Meyers’ quote from “Effective STL”: “… in the nearly 30 years I’ve been programming, I’ve never seen anything like STL. You probably haven’t either.” Now my story: I’m developing this app on top of an old DB which is, well, full of data […]
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The last days I’ve thought about Alex Blog “The Economics of Programming Languages in one Short Lesson” and what is missing for me, especially with the bottom line “Put your language out there, make it free and open and trust the programmers. … Good programming languages will survive and thrive, bad ones will die. ” […]
The only reason I like to travel is being able to read, especially on long flights. So, Charleston, SC – San Jose, CA trip to SD West was a good opportunity to read “Dreaming in Code”. Good book. About OSAF‘s development of a PIM named Chandler. Unfortunately, not comparable with The Soul of a New […]
I got tired of seeing the “Does C++ suck” title. So, I guess it’s time for new blog. I got tired of dumb radio stations on my way to work, too. I also get bored a lot working out in the gym. So, to kill the proverbial birds, I got myself an iPod Shuffle to […]
Here’s a blog on how C++ sucks and committee members are an ignorant bunch having little or no clue what they talk about when it comes to threading. I find it interesting to see over and over how people sharply and firmly focus on a single aspect of [insert your favorite issue here, from Iraq […]
Prompted by Kai Londenberg’s post, I’ve decided to actually sit down and read Terence Parr’s papers. As we all know, the MVC pattern is a classic, right? According to Parr’s articles, a vast majority of the modern incarnations claiming to be designed after it are actually blatantly violating it. In his paper, he fails to […]
An insightful blog entry by Herb Sutter on C++ exception specifications and why they’re best avoided.