POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Concepts Removed from C++0x

… which is now C++1x (and hoping x is small number). Concepts were, in my opinion, really cool feature (types of types) that would have greatly improved template compilation error reporting and also provide help in documenting iterators as well as getting rid of traits. Stroustrup has put 7 years of work into the feature. […]


POCO 1.3.5 Available

Version 1.3.5 of the POCO C++ Libraries has been released today. This is mostly a bugfix release, fixing some bugs in the NetSSL, Crypto and Zip libraries, plus a few minor enchancements. Upgrading from 1.3.4 is optional. Here is the CHANGELOG.


POCO 1.3.4 Available

I am happy to announce that release 1.3.4 is finally out! Apart from the usual bugfixes, this release contains significant performance improvements as well as some nice new features, such as a writable XMLConfiguration, a refactored NetSSL_OpenSSL library, support for case-insensitive globs, a new Poco::Util::Timer class, new PriorityNotificationQueue and TimedNotificationQueue classes in Foundation, and much […]


POCO on iPhone

I have just added a build configuration for the iPhone (using the Apple SDK) to the SVN Repository (will also be part of 1.3.4). So, now it’s possible to use POCO in iPhone applications with ease. Simply build the POCO libs for the iPhone, add the necessary library and header file search paths to your […]

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Bool Shift: Undefined Behavior of Dangling Pointer Economy

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


Plans and Roadmap

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 […]


New POCO Website

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. […]


Fun With Mindstorms®, POCO and the iPhone™ Accelerometer

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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New Monthly Downloads Record

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…


DynamicAny Article in ACCU Overload (II)

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.