Deutsche Telekom – I am pleasantly surprised. And, unlike in the UK, it's not just for Windows. At work, Roguewave have finally admitted that it wasn't fair to tell us to patch our compiler to fix one problem with their product, and then to refuse to support their product with that compiler patch when we [...]

Xerces-C++ mailing list has finally paid off with a response from a maintainer and a vote that's underway. The issue? Putting the include files under prefix/include/xercesc instead of prefix/include. Such a minor thing has taken a ridiculous amount of effort. I believe that it's partly due to the fact that there's not 1 or 2 [...]

C++ reference-counting smart pointers: Of course you just copy a pointer to a counter in the copy constructors. And, by adding an allocator type to the template specification, it can even be used to wrap C types that have special allocation and deallocation functions, without repetition of code in the derived classes. This has been [...]

Roguewave's DBTools.h++ library because the only version that compiles is the one that prevents use of the C++ Standard Library in the same application. They have a new version that will work, but they've changed the license so that they charge for deployment. It really seems that Roguewave is dying and is just tryingt to [...]