POCO C++ Libraries Blog

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We (Alex and me) are planning a POCO developers meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area end of August. This will be a rather informal half-day event, giving the opportunity to meet us and fellow POCO users and contributors in the Bay Area. We’ll do a few presentations, mainly about the current state and future […]

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Napa Valley not only has great wines, but also great taste in C++ frameworks. They like Poco so much they named a road after it. Or so I’d like to think… Found on Hwy 29, near Napa, CA.

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The Big Brother has spoken; thou shalt write Metro apps. According to ars technica: If you want to develop desktop applications—anything that runs at the command line or on the conventional Windows desktop that remains a fully supported, integral, essential part of Windows 8—you’ll have two options: stick with the current Visual C++ 2010 Express and […]

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Last week, I attended WG21 Study Group Meeting in Bellevue, WA kindly hosted by Microsoft, where SG1 (Concurrency and Parallelism) and SG4 (Networking) participants met to discuss the future direction and proposals for C++ standard. Study Groups are an attempt to augment the C++ standard library size to bring it on par with comparable libraries in other […]

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Recently, we’ve received inquiries about sponsoring the POCO project. Aside from corporate (Gold, Silver, Bronze) type sponsorships which come with commercial-grade support, small individual contributions are very welcome and encouraged. Please look for the PayPal link at the bottom of the Sponsorship page or contribute directly from here: Thanks to all who have contributed so far and will […]

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After many months of absence and low-level involvement with the project (for personal and professional reasons), I am back. We also have commitment from two other community members (Marian Krivos and Franky Braem) to help significantly with the project. For starters, Marian has retired old and I have just committed brand new trunk code. For […]

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We are proud to announce that on January 16, with our newest innovation my-devices.net, we were chosen a finalist in the CODE_n innovation contest. CODE_n is an international competition which will showcase the 50 best ideas in the field of mobile IT solutions at the world’s most important IT event, CeBIT. Out of more than […]

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An important patch for the 1.4.3 release is available. In 1.4.3, Poco::Util::WinRegistryKey used a function (RegDeleteKeyEx) not available on Windows XP 32-bit (it is available starting with WinXP 64-bit SP3). This prevented applications using WinRegistryKey (or ServerApplication, which uses this class) from running on Windows XP. Bug report is here. This has been fixed in […]

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Release 1.4.3 of the POCO C++ Libraries is now available. This release contains new features and various improvements and bugfixes. Notable new features are support for HTTP Digest authentication (contributed by Anton V. Yabchinskiy) and WebSockets (RFC 6455). As always, the CHANGELOG has all the details. Upgrading is recommended for all users of previous releases.

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