POCO C++ Libraries Blog

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Local Sockets Support

I have just added Sockets library with local (aka UNIX) sockets support to SVN sandbox. The code was extracted from Net library and slightly modified to accommodate for UNIX sockets. For the time being, tested only on Linux. I’ll do Solaris testing as well, whoever can run it on other platforms, please do and report […]


POCO on iPhone

I have just added a build configuration for the iPhone (using the Apple SDK) to the SVN Repository (will also be part of 1.3.4). So, now it’s possible to use POCO in iPhone applications with ease. Simply build the POCO libs for the iPhone, add the necessary library and header file search paths to your […]

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POCO and Twitter

In the upcoming 1.3.4 release there will be a new sample application for the Net library that implements a simple Twitter client that can be used to send status updates to Twitter. Apart from being fun to implement and providing useful Twitter client functionality, this sample also shows how to combine Poco::Net::HTTPClientSession, Poco::Net::HTMLForm, Poco::Net::HTTPBasicCredentials and […]


POCO on Tiny Hardware

We recently got our hands on a Digi Connect ME 9210, one of the smallest Linux-capable embedded computers in the world. The system, which is just a bit larger than an Ethernet RJ-45 socket, is based on an ARM9 CPU running at 75 MHz. With 4 MB of Flash and 8 MB or DRAM, the […]

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Bool Shift: Undefined Behavior of Dangling Pointer Economy

How does functional programming, pointers and memory relate to this mess we call economy? Check out at Bool Shift.