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The C++ Network Library v0.8 Out Now!

The C++ Network Library team is proud to announce the availability of version 0.8 of the library after one whole week of getting feedback on the Beta version. The library is being maintained by Dean Michael Berris the project founder (and author of this...

Published 11-21-2010 3:18 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: updates, announcement, cpp-netlib

The cpp-netlib 0.8-beta is out now!

Yesterday I packaged and released for general availability the beta of the impending cpp-netlib 0.8 release. I decided to package a beta version to gather feedback from current and potential users about the features to be made available in the upcoming...

Published 11-16-2010 10:06 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: updates, announcement, boost, cpp-netlib

My Development Environment

Some people have asked me about what my actual C++ development environment looks like. I’ve put off writing this post because I’ve mainly been concentrating on implementing the asynchronous server template in cpp-netlib (to be released in...

Published 11-08-2010 9:17 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: tips

The cpp-netlib 0.7 Release

If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I am the author and one of the maintainers of the cpp-netlib project. The cpp-netlib project aims to develop a header-only, modern C++, standards-compliant implementation of the popular higher level...

Published 10-17-2010 9:18 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: library, updates, announcement, boost, cpp-netlib

Memcache++ Version 0.12.1 and Beyond

After a bit of spare time yesterday updating the documentation for another open source project, I went ahead and finished the porting of Memcache++’s response parser to use Boost.Spirit 2.4 (which comes with Boost 1.44.0). The result is then a more...

Published 10-08-2010 6:30 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: thoughts, library, updates, announcement, memcache++

Clang > GCC

Yes folks, if you’re on UNIX-like platforms (Mac, BSD, Linux) then you’re in luck: the clang project in its latest release (version 2.8) is now considered a production-ready compiler for C++. If you’re doing any sort of C++ template...

Published 10-04-2010 8:17 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: library, experiment, cool stuff, templates, clang

Lisp Macro Capability in C++?

So one of the cool news items that came about in the Boost mailing list is the news that Boost.Phoenix’s version 3 ported to use Boost.Proto. Just quickly, Boost.Proto is a compile-time expression templates compilation/evaluation engine written...

Published 07-23-2010 1:44 PM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: library, boost, cool stuff, templates, functional

BoostCon 2010 Trip Update

Now I’m back in the Philippines and an update has been long overdue. The week of May 9-14 was spent with much enthusiasm and enjoyment meeting with and getting to know the other names in the Boost C++ Library developers mailing list. The community...

Published 05-23-2010 10:11 PM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: thoughts, community, insights, updates, boost

Long Open Source Weekend

Here in the Philippines it’s the beginning of the holy week. I’m now looking at a lot of things to do to catch up with the backlog of things that I’ve got lined up. I’m sharing the list of things I’ll be working on and doing...

Published 03-31-2010 5:34 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: project, library, updates

Random Updates

For most of the later part of January and almost the whole of February I’ve been pre-occupied with some of my consulting work. There were some huge news that I wanted to share but didn’t find the time to share with the world through my blog...

Published 02-25-2010 8:17 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: updates

Clang Almost Ready for Boost!

One of the cooler projects I believe out there in the open source world is Clang — a ground-up implementation of a C/C++ front-end for LLVM. Thanks to a status message by Joel Falcou I looked at the cfe-dev mailing list archive and found this: I...

Published 01-13-2010 7:55 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: thoughts, community, cool stuff

Advantages of C over C++?!

Just after writing a piece about how C++ can be faster than C, I run into this article that speaks about how C is better than C++. Adam Smith writes: It has been claimed that C++ is a better C them [sic] C. this is being taken to mean that when switching...

Published 01-09-2010 12:24 PM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: thoughts, insights, review, rant

Boost.Spirit v2.x Versus C’s ‘atoi’

Alex Ott wrote a fascinating blog post about Boost.Spirit v2.x’s integer parser performance compared to standard C’s ‘atoi’, in one example of how C++ is faster than C in some cases. He writes: I did very primitive test of performance...

Published 01-08-2010 3:26 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: c++0x, boost, experiment, cool stuff

Free/Delete Not Returning Memory To OS?

As I do keep tabs on what’s going on with C++ around the web, I chanced upon this short and succinct article about ‘free’ and ‘delete’ not returning memory to the OS from Thought Garage which starts with: When you call free...

Published 01-05-2010 11:14 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: insights, boost, tips, cool stuff

Techniques and Realizations

After a considerably long break during the holiday season of 2009, I got back into the development mood in the beginning of 2010. After implementing HTTPS support in the development version of cpp-netlib towards the end of the year, I then moved on to...

Published 01-05-2010 4:06 AM by C++ Soup!

Filed under: project, library, tips

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