Here’s a blog on how C++ sucks and committee members are an ignorant bunch having little or no clue what they talk about when it comes to threading. I find it interesting to see over and over how people sharply and firmly focus on a single aspect of [insert your favorite issue here, from Iraq […]
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 […]
Prompted by Kai Londenberg’s post, I’ve decided to actually sit down and read Terence Parr’s papers. As we all know, the MVC pattern is a classic, right? According to Parr’s articles, a vast majority of the modern incarnations claiming to be designed after it are actually blatantly violating it. In his paper, he fails to […]