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 […]
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…