Today I fixed most of the currently open bugs reported on Sourceforge. The result is in the Subversion repository and will soon become release 1.3.1. There are also improvements to the Unix build system. It is now possible to build POCO-based applications and libraries outside of the POCO_BASE directory hierarchy. To do this, you’ll have […]
Are you planning a POCO based project or are you already in the middle of it and want to receive expert knowledge face-to-face? Here is what Peter Thulin, Technical Lead at TAC said about a recent training: “With the POCO Kick-Start Training we received expert knowledge directly from one of POCO’s developers. Through the training […]
Interesting things are happening. While Steve Jobs, explaining why iPhone comes Java-less, says: “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”, on Artima some folks are lamenting about their frustration with Java ME. In the mean time, Symbian goes POSIX. And last but not least: the last […]
POCO Data is now available for download. This is the first release of Data, and in order to get this release out sooner, some planned features are still missing (full ODBC Unicode support on Windows, DateTime support). Nevertheless, I am quite happy with the result for now, and hope you will be too. The documentation […]
I am happy to announce the official release and availability of POCO 1.3! Here’s a summary of what is new in 1.3: HashMap and HashSet classes (Foundation) Tuple class template (Foundation) SharedMemory class (Foundation) FileStream, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream classes that support Unicode (UTF-8) filenames on Windows (Foundation) improvements and bugfixes in the Net library, mostly HTTP […]
Since yesterday’s post was lost due to the server failure, here is the announcement again: A prerelease snapshot of the upcoming POCO 1.3 release is now available for download from Sourceforge. The release is now basically feature complete; the only thing missing from the snapshot is the Data library, which will be part of the […]
Yesterday, at around 8 pm CEST, the server that hosts this website had a hardware failure, which caused this site to become offline until around today, 6:30 pm. Unfortunately, any weblog and forum entries made yesterday have not been backed up and are lost. We are sorry for the inconvenience. This site is served by […]
POCO 1.3 is coming along nicely. Yesterday I have added a Condition (as in POSIX condition variable) class. As soon as I had finished it, Mark Swaanenburg from the Netherlands sent me his own implementation, which he developed independently. Seems like we need better coordination among our contributors 😉 Anyway, today I did some testing […]
The latest issue of CVu, one of the fine magazines of the ACCU, has published my article A Guided Tour of the POCO C++ Libraries, which gives an overview of the POCO libraries, with code samples. I hope this will help to make POCO known to an even wider audience. And at this point, welcome […]
Few words about this year’s SD West conference. The main reason I attended was to hear what Stroustrup and Sutter had to say about C++ future. Naturally, it was mostly about the upcoming C++0x standard. The most important topics were concepts (see this and this paper as well as ConceptGCC compiler implementation) and threading. Closures […]