I am happy to announce the official release and availability of POCO 1.3! Here’s a summary of what is new in 1.3: HashMap and HashSet classes (Foundation) Tuple class template (Foundation) SharedMemory class (Foundation) FileStream, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream classes that support Unicode (UTF-8) filenames on Windows (Foundation) improvements and bugfixes in the Net library, mostly HTTP […]
Since yesterday’s post was lost due to the server failure, here is the announcement again: A prerelease snapshot of the upcoming POCO 1.3 release is now available for download from Sourceforge. The release is now basically feature complete; the only thing missing from the snapshot is the Data library, which will be part of the […]
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POCO 1.3 is coming along nicely. Yesterday I have added a Condition (as in POSIX condition variable) class. As soon as I had finished it, Mark Swaanenburg from the Netherlands sent me his own implementation, which he developed independently. Seems like we need better coordination among our contributors 😉 Anyway, today I did some testing […]
We are currently hard at work finishing the 1.3 release of POCO. Highlights of the new version will be official release of the Data library, the addition of Tuple and DynamicAny, HashMap and HashSet, shared memory support and lots of other improvements and bugfixes. Expect a preview release next week. The final release will be […]
I have to share what happened to me today. But, first, a Meyers’ quote from “Effective STL”: “… in the nearly 30 years I’ve been programming, I’ve never seen anything like STL. You probably haven’t either.” Now my story: I’m developing this app on top of an old DB which is, well, full of data […]
Hi POCO Maniacs! Express your POCO unity! Share your POCO passion with others! Share with the community your Project Showcase, your insights, learnings with POCO! The senders of the first 10 published showcases will get one T-Shirt. Please send it together with your contact information to poco@appinf.com. Here a first impression. T-Shirt Front T-Shirt Back
The latest issue of CVu, one of the fine magazines of the ACCU, has published my article A Guided Tour of the POCO C++ Libraries, which gives an overview of the POCO libraries, with code samples. I hope this will help to make POCO known to an even wider audience. And at this point, welcome […]
Few words about this year’s SD West conference. The main reason I attended was to hear what Stroustrup and Sutter had to say about C++ future. Naturally, it was mostly about the upcoming C++0x standard. The most important topics were concepts (see this and this paper as well as ConceptGCC compiler implementation) and threading. Closures […]
The last days I’ve thought about Alex Blog “The Economics of Programming Languages in one Short Lesson” and what is missing for me, especially with the bottom line “Put your language out there, make it free and open and trust the programmers. … Good programming languages will survive and thrive, bad ones will die. ” […]