POCO C++ Libraries Blog

How does functional programming, pointers and memory relate to this mess we call economy? Check out at Bool Shift.

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With the 1.4 release now delayed for a few more weeks, we will put out a 1.3.4 release in February. Focus of this release will be bugfixes (the known bugs in 1.3.3), performance improvements (I am currently spending some time with valgrind/kcachgrind) and other minor improvements. After that, we’ll hopefully finish 1.4 for a release […]

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The new POCO website is finally online. As discussed previously, we have replaced the Tiki with phpBB and MediaWiki. For forum access, all forum users must reset their password. Posting Blog comments and editing the Wiki does not require an account, although we suggest you log yourself into the Wiki before you edit a page. […]

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Here at Applied Informatics, we like to have fun at work. We recently built a Mindstorms vehicle that’s remote controlled by the iPhone’s accelerometer. To add some POCO touch to it, the iPhone does not talk directly to the Mindstorms NXT, but to a Digi ConnectCore 9P running Linux and a POCO-based application. Connected to […]

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Today we’ve finally reached more than 3000 monthly downloads of the POCO C++ Libraries, according to SourceForge download statistics. Still a looong way to go until we reach the 2000+ downloads a day that Boost has, though…

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The second installment of DynamicAny article has been published in the October issue of ACCU Overload. Speed and code size comparison benchmarks against boost::any and boost::lexical_cast are the topics addressed in this installment. Enjoy.

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We have made some more progress with the new website, and we will try to do the switch over to the new site next Monday (Oct. 27). The current website will be temporarily unavailable while we make the switch (especially the blog, wiki and forums). Since the change also involves a DNS update, it may […]

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On Tuesday, October 21 2008, I’ll have an honor and pleasure of speaking to the members of the Coastal South Carolina IEEE Chapter about open source, C++ and – POCO.

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Now that the 1.3.3 release is out, it’s time for the next undertaking – the POCO project website update. As discussed previously, we will replace Tiki with MediaWiki and phpBB. During the summer, two interns have written conversion scripts that will move user accounts, wiki pages and the forum content to the new platform. Furthermore, […]

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I have created a new 1.3.3 release that fixes the Crypto compile error on 64-bit Linux, as well as the broken Makefile in the Zip archive distribution. Also, the README has been updated with a section discussing the external dependencies of NetSSL, Crypto, Data/ODBC and Data/MySQL. The SVN revision for this release is 964 in […]

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