There has been a lot of discussion lately regarding namespaces in POCO. Both the way how namespaces are defined, which is currently done with macros (shudder 😉 ), and the way, namespaces are, well, named. I am seriously thinking about getting rid of the namespaces macros. After reflecting about it for some time, the main […]
Thank God It’s Friday – a perfect time to relax and put out few thoughts about programming languages. Not surprisingly, I often come across as a language bigot, which I really am not. It’s not my fault that there’s so many lousy languages, and only one True One ;-). Just kidding – I actually wrote […]
Earlier this week, I have attended Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando. The trip was well worth it, there is a lot of stuff going on in the microcontroller world. The most remarkable trend is blurring the line between 8-bit and 32-bit world – Freescale now provides hardware and software tools compatibility. A significant trend also […]
I mean really, why Poco? Why another framework? And why in C++? Aren’t there enough frameworks around? Hasn’t everything been said and done with C++? Doesn’t everyone know by now that Java is future and C++ is dead (or at least on the deathbed) and C# is even better and … well you know what […]