Good news for everyone looking for Windows CE support in POCO. We have created a port of the POCO C++ Libraries to Windows CE 6 based on the current 1.3.7 branch. The port should work on Windows CE 5.x as well, however, testing has only been done on a Windows CE 6 device. There are […]
Thanks to Apple’s excellent support of C++ on iPhone OS, Remoting is working fine on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The hardest thing when building a Remoting-based iPhone application is to integrate the necessary C++ libraries into the Xcode project. This article shows how to build an iPhone client that works with the Remoting-based […]
For those of you needing full support for OpenSSL session caching: NetSSL in the 1.3.7 trunk has been extended with full client- and server side session caching support. See the Context, SecureStreamSocket and HTTPSClientSession classes, as well as the testsuite for how to use it.
I’ll be attending Embedded World in Nürnberg, Germany next week on Tuesday and Wednesday. If you’re there and want to meet, you are welcome. Just send me a message (guenter at pocoproject.org) to set the details. Hope to see you there, Günter
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the first public release of the POCO C++ Libraries. On February 21, 2005, release 0.91.1 was uploaded to Sourceforge, as documented in the CHANGELOG. We’ve come a long way since then. Happy 5th Birthday, POCO! And a big Thank You to everyone who has contributed in all these years.
I am happy to introduce the first official sponsor of the POCO C++ Libraries project: Schneider Electric Buildings (formerly TAC). They have been using POCO since 2006 in a large project in the building automation industry. Since they started using POCO as early as 2006, they have also been one of the first companies (if […]
Since a few people have suggested moving the project to GitHub, I am willing to give it a try. Before doing so however, I’d like to collect some input and feedback. First, how should we set up the project on GitHub? The simplest way would be to move the entire SVN tree (with trunk, sandbox […]
As stated in a blog post some months ago, I am now looking for sponsors to help funding POCO C++ Libraries development. After considering a few alternatives, including setting up a non-profit organization overseeing project direction and funding, I came to the conclusion that, at least at the beginning, sponsorship agreements will be handled by […]
Release 1.3.6p2 is a another patch release for 1.3.6 containing various bugfixes. Upgrading is recommended for everyone using the Crypto, NetSSL, Net and XML libraries. As always, for a complete list of changes, please see the CHANGELOG.
The Wikipedia article on POCO could need some help, as it has recently been marked as not meeting the notability guidelines and is in danger of being deleted. Could someone (who’s not a POCO maintainer) please take some time and add some more content to the article (maybe a History, License and Implementation section), as […]