POCO C++ Libraries Blog

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Picross anyone?

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, […]


Pandora

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 🙂


NullMutex

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 […]


POCO 1.3.3 RC1

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 […]


1.3.3 is coming

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 […]


DynamicAny Article in ACCU Overload

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.


POCO RFC

This is a request for comment about the future of POCO project*. The POCO project team is soliciting feedback on the project itself, the development model, maintenance, releases and any other topic regarding the POCO project state of the affairs. The current state of the project has some troubling aspects associated with it that we […]


Some POCO Statistics

Generated using David A. Wheeler’s ‘SLOCCount‘ from current SVN trunk, rev. 661: SLOC Directory SLOC-by-Language (Sorted) 88328 Foundation cpp=69772,ansic=18556 86109 Data ansic=52596,cpp=33513 26193 XML cpp=20424,ansic=5769 23916 Net cpp=23916 11642 WebWidgets cpp=11642 7680 Util cpp=7680 3974 NetSSL_OpenSSL cpp=3974 2244 CppUnit cpp=2244 990 PageCompiler cpp=989 922 ApacheConnector cpp=922 486 release sh=486 118 dist sh=118 103 build sh=103 […]


LiMo

After crippled-C++ Symbian, Java-only Android and Objective-C iPhone platforms, finally some companies have seen the light and came up with LiMo. Now we just have to wait to see the first POCO phone 😉


DynamicAny

I have redone some things in DynamicAny: Added support for empty state as default and empty() function to turn it into empty Made DynamicAnyHolder pure virtual functions (clone(), type() and all convert() and is…() overloads) virtual. All convert() overloads throw if reached at runtime, the querying is…() functions all return false. This has provided a […]