POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


PocoDevCon Silicon Valley

We (Alex and me) are planning a POCO developers meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area end of August. This will be a rather informal half-day event, giving the opportunity to meet us and fellow POCO users and contributors in the Bay Area. We’ll do a few presentations, mainly about the current state and future […]


The Poco Way!

Napa Valley not only has great wines, but also great taste in C++ frameworks. They like Poco so much they named a road after it. Or so I’d like to think… Found on Hwy 29, near Napa, CA.


Bad news for FOSS C++11 on Windows

The Big Brother has spoken; thou shalt write Metro apps. According to ars technica: If you want to develop desktop applications—anything that runs at the command line or on the conventional Windows desktop that remains a fully supported, integral, essential part of Windows 8—you’ll have two options: stick with the current Visual C++ 2010 Express and […]


POCO Training & Consulting in the USA

As posted earlier, I will spend this summer in Silicon Valley from beginning of July to end of September. This is a great opportunity if anyone is interested in a POCO training, as I can offer these with significantly reduced travel expenses. I’m also available for occasional consulting services during that period. Please contact us […]

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POCO and C++ Standard

Last week, I attended WG21 Study Group Meeting in Bellevue, WA kindly hosted by Microsoft, where SG1 (Concurrency and Parallelism) and SG4 (Networking) participants met to discuss the future direction and proposals for C++ standard. Study Groups are an attempt to augment the C++ standard library size to bring it on par with comparable libraries in other […]


POCO Sponsorship

Recently, we’ve received inquiries about sponsoring the POCO project. Aside from corporate (Gold, Silver, Bronze) type sponsorships which come with commercial-grade support, small individual contributions are very welcome and encouraged. Please look for the PayPal link at the bottom of the Sponsorship page or contribute directly from here: Thanks to all who have contributed so far and will […]


POCO is on the Move

After many months of absence and low-level involvement with the project (for personal and professional reasons), I am back. We also have commitment from two other community members (Marian Krivos and Franky Braem) to help significantly with the project. For starters, Marian has retired old and I have just committed brand new trunk code. For […]


Coming to Silicon Valley

I will be in Silicon Valley this summer (July 3 to September 26) and I’m looking to rent a furnished one-bedroom apartment in or near Sunnyvale. If you know or can recommend a place for me and my family to stay at please let me know (guenter at appinf.com). I’ll have an office in the […]


Applied Informatics Finalist in CODE_n Innovation Contest; Meet Us at CeBIT

We are proud to announce that on January 16, with our newest innovation my-devices.net, we were chosen a finalist in the CODE_n innovation contest. CODE_n is an international competition which will showcase the 50 best ideas in the field of mobile IT solutions at the world’s most important IT event, CeBIT. Out of more than […]


1.4.3p1 Available – Important patch for Windows XP 32-bit

An important patch for the 1.4.3 release is available. In 1.4.3, Poco::Util::WinRegistryKey used a function (RegDeleteKeyEx) not available on Windows XP 32-bit (it is available starting with WinXP 64-bit SP3). This prevented applications using WinRegistryKey (or ServerApplication, which uses this class) from running on Windows XP. Bug report is here. This has been fixed in […]