The Data library is POCOs new database abstraction layer. It features a generic SQL data access framework which defines interfaces for DataConnectors. A DataConnector implements the plumbing between Data and an actual database API (e.g., ODBC, OCI, etc.) POCO Data heavily builds on ideas borrowed from SOCI, another excellent database abstraction library under the Boost […]
POCO 1.2.3 has been released today. Changes since 1.2.2: – configure script now checks if (auto)selected configuration is supported – fixed SF #1552904: NamedEvent bug? – fixed SF #1552787: POCO not handling EINTR – fixed SF #1552846: Random::~Random uses scalar delete – fixed SF #1552987: TLSSlot should explicitly default-construct _value – IPAddress no longer accepts […]
September 2 was the date of the first “wordwide” POCO Community Convention when I met with Alex in Lovran, near Rijeka in Croatia. Alex lived in that area for 30 years before he moved to the USA, and came back for two weeks to visit his parents. Since at the same time I spent my […]
POCO 1.2.2 has been released today. This is a bugfix release only. See the CHANGELOG for the list of fixes. (And for those of you overwhelmed by the high number of releases in the last days: there won’t be any new releases at least for the next two weeks, as I am starting my vacation […]
POCO 1.2 has been released today. This release contains major improvements and new features. Summary of changes (please see CHANGELOG for details): namespaces and header locations have changed improvements to command line options handling improvements to HTTP server and client classes support for raw sockets and ICMP improvements to DateTime, bugfixes in Timezone improvements to […]
Jim Coplien is blogging on the next paradigm shift and first signs of recognition of his 8-year old book. Very interesting read.
I have created a sandbox directory in the SVN repository for POCO. Currently, two libraries live it in, both contributions by Alex: Web and IO.
… do, those who don’t – teach. Believe it or not Scott Meyers is a poster boy for the second half of the above statement. He is also the first person that made me think about it in a serious, positive and equal-to-the-first-half sense. Whether he knows how to do, I don’t know. But I […]
A new snapshot release of 1.2 (poco-1.2-20060816) is available from SourceForge. This release is now feature complete and contains the proposed changes to namespaces and header file locations. If no severe issues will show up, the official 1.2 release will be available next week. The changelog is here. And the updated reference documentation is here. […]
Today I made a change to the way namespaces in POCO are handled. First, I got rid of the unpopular namespace macros. Second, I introduced an outer Poco namespace. The change was quite painless and with the help of Visual Studio’s Replace in Files function I was able do the complete change in about two […]