Boost C++ Libraries

...one of the most highly regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the world. — Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu, C++ Coding Standards

Print publications about Boost or Boost Libraries

[Maddock-Cleary 00]

John Maddock and Steve Cleary, C++ Type Traits. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Vol. 25, Issue 10, October, 2000, page 38. www.boost.org/libs/type_traits/c++_type_traits.htm

[Maddock 01]

John Maddock, Regular Expressions in C++. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Vol. 26, Issue 10, October, 2001, page 21.

[Siek-Lumsdaine 01]

Jeremy Siek and Andrew Lumsdaine, C++ Concept Checking. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Vol. 26, Issue 6, June, 2001, page 64.

[Siek-Lee-Lumsdaine 02]

Jeremy Siek, Lie-Quan Lee and Andrew Lumsdaine, The Boost Graph Library. Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN 0-201-72914-8. www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-72914-8

Sample chapter 3: tinyurl.com/24666

[Karlsson 02]

Björn Karlsson, Smart Pointers in Boost. C/C++ Users Journal, April, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8014/cuj0204karlsson/

[Karlsson 02a]

Björn Karlsson, C/C++ Tip #9: Lexical Conversions. C/C++ Users Journal, November, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0211karlsson/

[Kempf 02]

Bill Kempf, The Boost.Threads Library. C/C++ Users Journal, May, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8013/cuj0205kempf/

[Abrahams-Grosse-Kunstleve 03]

David Abrahams and Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve, Building Hybrid Systems with Boost.Python. C/C++ Users Journal, July, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0307abrahams/

[Sutter 03]

Herb Sutter, Generalized Function Pointers. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8464/cujcexp0308sutter/

[Guzman-Nuffer 03]

Joel de Guzman and Dan Nuffer, The Spirit Library: Inline Parsing in C++, C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2003, Vol. 21, Issue 9, page 22.

Online publications about Boost or Boost Libraries

[Walker 03]

Andrew Walker, An Introduction to Boost, The Code Project, July 7, 2003. www.codeproject.com/vcpp/stl/BoostIntro.asp

A short and straightforward introduction to Boost.

[Trentini 03]

Matthew S. Trentini, Introduction to Boost. www.alphalink.com.au/~mattyt/BoostPresentation1/boost.html

[Brownell 02]

David Brownell, C++ Techniques for Tomorrow That Can be Implemented Today (a.k.a. Boosting your Code). NWCPP, November 13, 2002. www.nwcpp.org/Meetings/2002/11.html

[Abrahams 03a]

David Abrahams, The Boost Metaprogramming Library. ACCU, 2003. www.boost-consulting.com/writing/ACCU_MPL_slides.ppt

[Dawes 03]

Beman Dawes, Multiplatform Software Development. 2003. www.esva.net/~beman/multiplat_dev.ppt

[Halleux 03]

Jonathan de Halleux, Opening a door towards Spirit: a parser framework. The Code Project, March 24, 2003. www.codeproject.com/cpp/spiritintro.asp

[Siek 02]

Jeremy G. Siek, The Boost Graph Library. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/2hc27

[Siek 02a]

Jeremy G. Siek, A Boost Graph Library Tutorial. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/2sa4s

Print mentions of Boost or Boost Libraries

[Alexandrescu 02]

Andrei Alexandrescu, Generic<Programming>: Efficient Generic Sorting and Searching in C++ (I): In Search of a Better Search. C/C++ Users Journal, October, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7978/cujcexp2010alexandr/

boost::type_traits

[Vandervoorde-Josuttis 03]

David Vandevoorde and Nicolai M. Josuttis, Using Templates in Practice. C/C++ Users Journal, February, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8208/cujweb0302vandevoorde/web0302b.htm

Concept Check Library

[Sutter 01]

Herb Sutter, The String Formatters of Manor Farm. C/C++ Users Journal, Vol. 19, November, 2001. www.gotw.ca/publications/mill19.htm

boost::lexical_cast

[Hylsop-Sutter 01]

Jim Hyslop and Herb Sutter, Conversations: I'd Hold Anything for You. C/C++ Users Journal, December, 2001. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7988/cujcexp1912hyslop/

boost::any

[Hylsop-Sutter 02]

Jim Hyslop and Herb Sutter, Conversations: Getting to the Point. C/C++ Users Journal, July, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7981/cujcexp2007hyslop/

smart pointer discussion. boost::scoped_ptr, shared_ptr, scoped_array, shared_array.

[Besser 03]

Mitch Besser, Generic Printable ENUM++. C/C++ Users Journal, June, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cujboost0306besser/

Mentions BOOST_PP

[Nasonov 03]

Alexander Nasonov, I/O System: dynamic_any Campaign. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cujweb0309nasonov/

Improved boost::any

[Sutter 02]

Herb Sutter, The New C++: The Group of Seven - Extensions under Consideration for the C++ Standard Library. C/C++ Users Journal, April, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7984/cujcexp2004sutter/

[Sutter 02a]

Herb Sutter, The New C++: Smart(er) Pointers. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7980/cujcexp2008sutter/

[Sutter 03a]

Herb Sutter, Generalizing Observer. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8840/cujexp0309sutter/

[Tan 03]

Kwee H. Tan, Exploring EDA Algorithms with the Boost Graph Library. C/C++ Users Journal, July, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0307tan/

[Ablavsky 02]

Vitaly Ablavsky, Applying BGL to Computational Geometry. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0208ablavsky/

Online mentions of Boost or Boost Libraries

[Curran 02]

James Curran, Access Raw Data with Performance Counters in Visual C++, DevX.com, October, 2002. www.devx.com/cplus/article/7951

Devotes several paragraphs to boost::shared_ptr<>.

[Carbon 02]

David S?, Boost : The handy library of handy libraries. Kuro5hin, July 18, 2002. www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/18/3313/01429

[Casad 03]

Joe Casad, Introducing the Boost Corner. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0308boostcorner/

[Siek 02b]

Jeremy G. Siek, Internet Packet Routing with the Boost Graph Library. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/26dwj

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