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 […]
There’s a blog entry on the topic. Your humble correspondent posted some examples and links to DynamicAny, which caused a Boost zealot to shoot back indiscriminately. Stay tuned 😉
An interview (Part 1 and Part 2) with B. Stroustrup and H. Sutter taken during SDWest 08. Second part is particularly interesting – they discuss functional aspects of C++ (and some other languages). The bottom line, once again: multiparadigm – way to go.
A couple of interesting links to Grady Booch’s bits of wisdom. In CIO, he talks about the 5 things he has learned about complex software systems: The fundamentals never go out of style. You need a regular rhythm of releases. Focus upon growing executable architectures. Create social structures that encourage innovation while still preserving predictability. […]
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Although WebWidgets is not finished yet, I decided to commit WebWidgets to svn, so that you guys can take a first look. Only VS80 solution files are recent now, events are still incomplete, and I am not really happy with the way ExtJS tables are rendered. Main development branch of WebWidgets is from now on […]
We have some good news regarding the state of the POCO website. In summer, two interns will help us to do a major overhaul of the website. The following is planned: Some graphical/design facelifting Kick out tiki and replace it with MediaWiki and phpBB Integrate the user management of WordPress, MediaWiki and phpBB Implement a […]
There’s a mailing list thread going on, discussing some proposals for modifications and POCO contributing process. This discussion occasionally turns heated and there is a lot of misinterpretation and misunderstanding going on, which has prompted me to summarize the contributing issues/concerns and post them in one place as a clarification for all the folks who […]
We are currently in progress of changing the WebWidgets library. We now have a core library defining the GUI elements, the CodeGenerators aka Renderers are kept in a separate library. The renderer I am currently working on is a Codegenerator for ExtJs. The code is still very incomplete (especially callbacks, events, table stuff) but writing […]
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