The only reason I like to travel is being able to read, especially on long flights. So, Charleston, SC – San Jose, CA trip to SD West was a good opportunity to read “Dreaming in Code”. Good book. About OSAF‘s development of a PIM named Chandler. Unfortunately, not comparable with The Soul of a New […]
I got tired of seeing the “Does C++ suck” title. So, I guess it’s time for new blog. I got tired of dumb radio stations on my way to work, too. I also get bored a lot working out in the gym. So, to kill the proverbial birds, I got myself an iPod Shuffle to […]
Here’s a blog on how C++ sucks and committee members are an ignorant bunch having little or no clue what they talk about when it comes to threading. I find it interesting to see over and over how people sharply and firmly focus on a single aspect of [insert your favorite issue here, from Iraq […]
Time for another POCO bugfix release. 1.2.9 fixes various bugs and brings some performance improvements, most notable in the HTTP classes. Sergey N. Yatskevich contributed various patches for this release – thank you! Please see the CHANGELOG for the details.
In the last Information Week issue, there is an article by Charles Babcock on the topic of open source and its feasibility for companies. Here’s Babcock’s classification of a succesful OS project: A thriving community A handful of lead developers, a large body of contributors, and a substantial–or at least motivated–user group offering ideas. Disruptive […]
Prompted by Kai Londenberg’s post, I’ve decided to actually sit down and read Terence Parr’s papers. As we all know, the MVC pattern is a classic, right? According to Parr’s articles, a vast majority of the modern incarnations claiming to be designed after it are actually blatantly violating it. In his paper, he fails to […]
An insightful blog entry by Herb Sutter on C++ exception specifications and why they’re best avoided.
This website is now also reachable under the pocoproject.org domain. This is the first step in getting the POCO Community Website off the appinf.com domain and server, where it is hosted now. If you want to link to the POCO website, please use the new domain.
Sergei Sokolov examines interesting techniques at Dr. Dobbs Journal, that improve the stability and reduce the risks of errors for C++ programming. Here a short summary. Step 1. Use Static Analyis Peer code reviews remain the best approach for finding code defects using a human brain to read and understand the code, looking for defects […]
New year, new POCO release. POCO 1.2.8 is available! This is mostly a bugfix release, although some improvements have been made to the format functions in Foundation. Changelog: – fixed SF# 1613906: Util/Application.h and GCC 3.3 – fixed a byte order issue (failed test) in IPv6 address formatting – fixed SF# 1626640: Poco::Net::SocketReactor bug – […]