An interview (Part 1 and Part 2) with B. Stroustrup and H. Sutter taken during SDWest 08. Second part is particularly interesting – they discuss functional aspects of C++ (and some other languages). The bottom line, once again: multiparadigm – way to go.
A couple of interesting links to Grady Booch’s bits of wisdom. In CIO, he talks about the 5 things he has learned about complex software systems: The fundamentals never go out of style. You need a regular rhythm of releases. Focus upon growing executable architectures. Create social structures that encourage innovation while still preserving predictability. […]
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We have some good news regarding the state of the POCO website. In summer, two interns will help us to do a major overhaul of the website. The following is planned: Some graphical/design facelifting Kick out tiki and replace it with MediaWiki and phpBB Integrate the user management of WordPress, MediaWiki and phpBB Implement a […]
There were three significant changes to the SVN trunk and sandbox recently: Data keywords (use, into, et al.) were moved into Poco::Data::Keywords namespace. All the IO stuff (both sync and async) was moved from Foundation and Net to IO and IO::Socket All the Serial stuff was moved from IO to IO::Serial All these changes do […]
Sergey Kholodilov was kind enough to share his work with us and now we have MySQL Data connector for POCO. At this time, it is only available from SVN and tested with 1.3.3 branch code on Windows, FreeBSD and Linux. POCO community very much appreciates your contribution, Sergey.
Earlier this week, I have attended Stroustrup and Sutter on C++ session at the SD West 2008 conference in Santa Clara, CA. As usual, session was packed with information mainly focused on the upcoming standard, the multi-core revolution we are are just starting to witness and a healthy dose of humor from both speakers and […]
Going to Embedded World next week in Nuremberg, Germany? You can see a cool demo powered by the POCO C++ Libraries as well as POCO Remoting featured at the booth of Atlantik Elektronik (hall 12, booth 444). I am looking forward to seeing you there!
A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects may be of interest to any non-lawyer involved with open source.
There’s been some interest recently for the topic in the mailing list and feature request tracker, so I have decided to import some code I’ve put together during my grad school days. It is still very rudimentary – PocoScript front-end library with one back-end for now – PocoLua. At this point, it is possible to […]