Time for another POCO bugfix release. 1.2.9 fixes various bugs and brings some performance improvements, most notable in the HTTP classes. Sergey N. Yatskevich contributed various patches for this release – thank you! Please see the CHANGELOG for the details.
In the last Information Week issue, there is an article by Charles Babcock on the topic of open source and its feasibility for companies. Here’s Babcock’s classification of a succesful OS project: A thriving community A handful of lead developers, a large body of contributors, and a substantial–or at least motivated–user group offering ideas. Disruptive […]
This website is now also reachable under the pocoproject.org domain. This is the first step in getting the POCO Community Website off the appinf.com domain and server, where it is hosted now. If you want to link to the POCO website, please use the new domain.
New year, new POCO release. POCO 1.2.8 is available! This is mostly a bugfix release, although some improvements have been made to the format functions in Foundation. Changelog: – fixed SF# 1613906: Util/Application.h and GCC 3.3 – fixed a byte order issue (failed test) in IPv6 address formatting – fixed SF# 1626640: Poco::Net::SocketReactor bug – […]
If you ever have to code C# in exchange for food and shelter, the free C# book for C++ programmers from Charles Petzold may come handy ;-). Seriously now, I did not read the whole thing, but it looks like a decent introduction text, it’s free and it comes from the author with good reputation, […]
I have prepared a Wiki page containing the POCO development roadmap. There’s not much there yet, but this will for sure change in the coming days and weeks. Just keep those feature requests coming…
A merry christmas to everyone from the POCO team at Applied Informatics! Since all of you have been so nice this year, we have a special present for you: the NetSSL library providing SSL/TLS support for Net (based on OpenSSL), which up to now was only available as part of a commercial service level agreement, […]
So, finally, I have delivered. Something. Don’t get me wrong, the thing runs, but there’s more to do before a release. There’s a TODO list here. Briefly, here are the issues: – I am not sure what exactly to do with Attributes and they are all over the original Java API, so I have improvised […]
Inspired by Christmas spirit and Paschal’s threat to go Java, I have actually forced myself to put in some work into servlet container today and align it with the Poco (I still had ancient namespace macros in code). I hope to have SF project and code out some time next week. I’m still undecided on […]
POCO 1.2.7 is available.* This is mostly a bugfix release fixing all bugs and inconveniences reported on Sourceforge and elsewhere. Changes: Poco::File: fixed root directory handling fixed UUIDGenerator documentation clarified Application::setUnixOptions() documentation fixed SF# 1597022: Signed/unsigned warning in StringTokenizer::operator[] fixed SF# 1598601: Message::op= leaks fixed SF# 1605960: PatternFormatter crashes on custom property fixed SF# 1605950: […]