POCO C++ Libraries Blog

On Tuesday, October 21 2008, I’ll have an honor and pleasure of speaking to the members of the Coastal South Carolina IEEE Chapter about open source, C++ and – POCO.

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Now that the 1.3.3 release is out, it’s time for the next undertaking – the POCO project website update. As discussed previously, we will replace Tiki with MediaWiki and phpBB. During the summer, two interns have written conversion scripts that will move user accounts, wiki pages and the forum content to the new platform. Furthermore, […]

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I have created a new 1.3.3 release that fixes the Crypto compile error on 64-bit Linux, as well as the broken Makefile in the Zip archive distribution. Also, the README has been updated with a section discussing the external dependencies of NetSSL, Crypto, Data/ODBC and Data/MySQL. The SVN revision for this release is 964 in […]

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I am happy to announce that release 1.3.3 of the POCO C++ Libraries is finally available. More than any other release before, this release was a true community effort. Sergey Kholodilov contributed the MySQL connector for Data, and Ferdinand Beyer contributed the foundation of what now is the Crypto library. Chris Johnson helped bringing POCO […]

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I finally decided that’s its time to show how one can use the WebWidgets library. The previous sample in the ExtjS/Samples directory is, well, I am not sure if it deserves to be called a sample 🙂 So if you wanted to take a look at WebWidgets and learn how to write your own WebGUIs, […]

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I just couldn’t resist and preordered one of those. Now I just have to wait till end of November, then we can add the Pandora as an official POCO build target 🙂

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As of revision 896 the POCO sourceforge trunk features a new class: the NullMutex (Poco/Mutex.h) You now probably ask yourself: What’s so special about this class? Because – as the name suggests – it does nothing. And that’s exactly why we needed it. Mostly all components of POCO are thread-safe. While this is generally a […]

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I am happy to announce that the first release candidate for the upcoming 1.3.3 release is now ready. Those of you wanting to get a glimpse at it can download the tarball from here. The list of changes (over 50 bug fixes and enchancements) can be found here. Feedback is appreciated before we release the […]

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As those of you following the mailing list have probably noticed, a lot of bug squashing goes on currently. The reason is the upcoming 1.3.3 release, for which we’d like to fix most of the currently reported issues. The release candidate should be ready next Monday (Sept.22), after some more Data testing by Alex the […]

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Part I of DynamicAny article just got published in the August issue of ACCU Overload. Part II is coming in October issue. Enjoy and stay tuned.

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