POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


POCO on CppCast

POCO was featured in the Episode 18 on CppCast.


Trip Report: Sierra Wireless Innovation Summit and NDC Oslo

I spent the last week traveling, first to Paris, to attend the Sierra Wireless Innovation Summit, then to Oslo for NDC. At the Innovation Summit in Paris, Sierra Wireless introduced a new open hardware project called Project mangOH. This is basically a base board for Sierra Wireless (and also other manufacturer’s) embedded modules, based on […]


Meet me at NDC Oslo

I’ll be giving a talk at this year’s NDC Oslo on Thursday, June 18. My talk is titled “Building IoT Device Applications in JavaScript and C++” and I’ll speak about my experience in building macchina.io, combining POCO with the V8 JavaScript engine and a couple of other really cool C++ frameworks. I’ll be at the […]


Meet me at Sierra Wireless Innovation Summit, June 17, in Paris

I’ll be at the Sierra Wireless Innovation Summit, a full-day IoT Innovation conference in Paris on June 17. Meet me there to see a demo of macchina.io, my new really cool POCO-based platform for building IoT gateways and devices. The event features technical and business tracks, plenty of real-life use cases, an exciting showroom with […]


POCO C++ Libraries in biicode

The POCO C++ Libraries are now available via biicode, in the following versions: fenix/poco (develop) -> changing continuously fenix/poco (v1.6.0) fenix/poco (v1.5.4) fenix/poco (v1.4.7p1) The following post has been contributed by Fran Ramírez from the biicode team. You can also find the original post on the biicode blog. Benefits biicode is a file based dependency […]


10 Years of POCO

Today is the 10th anniversary of the first public release of POCO on SourceForge. Here’s my first entry from the CHANGELOG: Release 0.91.1 (2005-02-21) =========================== This is the first public release of the C++ Portable Components. The release does not contain all features planned for the later 1.0 release (the NET library is missing, for […]


Embedded World 2015

Günter Obiltschnig will be at Embedded World February 24 to 25. We don’t have a booth, but Günter would be happy to meet for lunch, coffee or a drink. Please get in touch if you’d like to schedule a meeting.


Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2015!


Stable Release 1.6.0 Available!

Release 1.6.0 is the culmination of the work done on GitHub over the last two years, including five development releases. It includes major new features from new contributors, like the JSON and MongoDB libraries, much improved Data library, CMake support, as well as numerous other new features and fixes. A big Thank You to everyone […]


Release 1.4.7p1 Available

Release 1.4.7p1 fixes a few issues in 1.4.7 and earlier releases. Most important, the Visual C++ project files for Visual C++ 2010 and later have optimization enabled in release builds. Previous builds had optimization disabled due to a bug in Visual Studio when upgrading 2008 project files with custom optimization settings. There’s a new feature […]