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 […]
in Dr. Dobbs
Evidence of a widespread use is important part of becoming a mainstream framework and raising a potential user confidence. From that standpoint, POCO is not quite there yet, at least not “officially”. We do get frequent hits from many commercial entities, but only a small subset is factually verified and listed to use POCO. This […]