Boost C++ Libraries

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Boost Bibliography

Print publications about Boost or Boost Libraries

2000

[MaddockCleary00]
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

2001

[Maddock01]
John Maddock, Regular Expressions in C++. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Vol. 26, Issue 10, October, 2001, page 21.
[SiekLumsdaine01]
Jeremy Siek and Andrew Lumsdaine, C++ Concept Checking. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Vol. 26, Issue 6, June, 2001, page 64.

2002

[Karlsson02]
Björn Karlsson, Smart Pointers in Boost. C/C++ Users Journal, April, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8014/cuj0204karlsson/
[Karlsson02a]
Björn Karlsson, C/C++ Tip #9: Lexical Conversions. C/C++ Users Journal, November, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0211karlsson/
[Kempf02]
Bill Kempf, The Boost.Threads Library. C/C++ Users Journal, May, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8013/cuj0205kempf/
[SiekLeeLumsdaine02]
Jeremy Siek, Lie-Quan Lee and Andrew Lumsdaine, The Boost Graph Library. Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN: 0-201-72914-8. www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0201729148.
A sample chapter is available at: tinyurl.com/24666

2003

[AbrahamsGrosse-Kunstleve03]
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/
[GuzmanNuffer03]
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.
[Karlsson03]
Björn Karlsson, Lambda Expressions & C++. C/C++ Users Journal, December, 2003, Vol. 21, Issue 12, page 20.
[Sutter03]
Herb Sutter, Generalized Function Pointers. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8464/cujcexp0308sutter/

2004

[AbrahamsGurtovoy04]
David Abrahams and Aleksey Gurtovoy, C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond. Addison-Wesley, November, 2004. ISBN: 0-321-22725-5. www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321227255
Additional information and two sample chapters are available at: boost-consulting.com/tmpbook/
[Inaba04]
Kazuhiro Inaba, Boost C++ Library Programming. Shuwa System, May, 2004. ISBN: 4-7980-0786-2. www.shuwasystem.co.jp/books/7980/0786-2/0786-2.html
Additional information and a sample chapter are available at: www.kmonos.net/pub/BoostBook/
[López04]
Joaquín M López Muñoz, The Boost Multi-Index Containers Library. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2004, Vol. 22, Issue 9, page 6.

2005

[Karlsson05]
Björn Karlsson, Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost. Addison-Wesley, August 31, 2005. ISBN: 0-3211-3354-4. www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321133544
A sample chapter is available at: www.informit.com/content/images/0321133544/samplechapter/karlsson_ch09.pdf

2009

[Schaeling09]
Boris Schaeling, Die Boost C++ Bibliotheken. www.highscore.de/cpp/boost/

2010

[Demming11]
Robert Demming, Daniel J Duffy Introduction to the Boost C++ Libraries; Volume I - Foundations. www.datasim-press.com/BoostVolumeI.html/
[Demming12]
Robert Demming, Daniel J Duffy Introduction to the Boost C++ Libraries; Volume II - Advanced Libraries. www.datasim-press.com/BoostVolumeII.html/

2011

[Schaeling09]
Boris Schaeling, The Boost C++ Libraries. en.highscore.de/cpp/boost/

2013

[Polukhin13]
Antony Polukhin, Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook. http://www.packtpub.com/boost-cplusplus-application-development-cookbook/book
[Torjo13]
John Torjo, Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming. www.packtpub.com/boost-asio-cplusplus-network-programming/book

2014

[Schaeling14]
Boris Schaeling, The Boost C++ Libraries, Second Edition. http://www.amazon.com/Boost-C-Libraries-Boris-Sch%C3%A4ling/dp/1937434362

2017

[Polukhin17]
Antony Polukhin, Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook, Second Edition. https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/boost-c-application-development-cookbook-second-edition

2020

[Polukhin20]
Antony Polukhin (Антон Полухин), Разработка приложений на C++ с использованием Boost, Dmk Press, ISBN: 978-5-97060-868-5. https://dmkpress.com/catalog/computer/programming/c/978-5-97060-868-5/

Online publications about Boost or Boost Libraries

2002

[Brownell02]
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
[Long02]
Matt Long, Adding Regular Expressions to Your App with Regex++. The Code Project, June 18, 2002. www.codeproject.com/KB/string/regex__.aspx
[Siek02]
Jeremy G. Siek, The Boost Graph Library. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/2hc27
[Siek02a]
Jeremy G. Siek, A Boost Graph Library Tutorial. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/2sa4s

2003

[Abrahams03]
David Abrahams, The Boost Metaprogramming Library. ACCU, 2003. www.boost-consulting.com/writing/ACCU_MPL_slides.ppt
[Dawes03]
Beman Dawes, Multiplatform Software Development. 2003. www.esva.net/~beman/multiplat_dev.ppt
[Halleux03]
Jonathan de Halleux, Opening a door towards Spirit: a parser framework. The Code Project, March 24, 2003. www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/spiritintro.aspx
[Kaiser03]
Hartmut Kaiser, Wave: a Standard conformant C++ preprocessor library. The Code Project, March 25, 2003. www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/wave_preprocessor.aspx
[Trentini03]
Matthew S. Trentini, Introduction to Boost.
[Walker03]
Andrew Walker, An Introduction to Boost. The Code Project, July 7, 2003. www.codeproject.com/KB/stl/boostintro.aspx
A short and straightforward introduction to Boost.

2004

[Dawes04]
Beman Dawes, Boost for Visual C++ Developers. MSDN, May 17, 2004. tinyurl.com/2lzyh
[D'Agostino04]
Jim D'Agostino, Designing Robust Objects with Boost. The Code Project, August 17, 2004. www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/Designing_Robust_Objects.aspx
[Handley04]
Dave Handley, An Introduction to the Boost Spirit Parser framework. The Code Project, October 9, 2004. www.codeproject.com/KB/stl/introduction_spirit.aspx
[Handley04a]
Dave Handley, Implementing Semantic Actions in the Boost Spirit Parser Framework. The Code Project, October 10, 2004. www.codeproject.com/KB/stl/spirit_semantic_actions.aspx
[Hauptmann04]
Peter Hauptmann, Smart Pointers to boost your code. The Code Project, September 27, 2004. www.codeproject.com/KB/stl/boostsmartptr.aspx
[Hauptmann04a]
Peter Hauptmann, boost 2: shared_ptr wraps resource handles. The Code Project, October 4, 2004. www.codeproject.com/KB/stl/boostsp_handleref.aspx
[Wikipedia04]
Wikipedia, Boost (Programming). Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2004. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_(programming)
[Witt04]
Thomas Witt, The Boost Iterator Library. ACCU Spring Conference, 2004. www.accu.org/conference/presentations/Witt_-_Boost_Iterator_Library.pdf

2005

[Karlsson05a]
Bjorn Karlsson, How the Boost Bind Library Can Improve Your C++ Programs. InformIT, August 26, 2005. www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=412354
[Cogswell05]
Jeff Cogswell, Adding an Easy File Save and File Load Mechanism to Your C++ Program. InformIT, July 1, 2005. www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=398702
Explains Boost.Serialization.
[Gurtovoy05]
Aleksey Gurtovoy and David Abrahams An In-Depth Look at Metafunctions in C++. InformIT, April 1, 2005. www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=375705

2008

[Schaeling08]
Boris Schaeling, The Boost C++ Libraries. http://theboostcpplibraries.com/

2014

[Douglas14]
Niall Douglas, Large Code Base Change Ripple Management in C++: My thoughts on how a new Boost C++ Library could help. http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3323

Print mentions of Boost or Boost Libraries

2001

[HyslopSutter01]
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
[Meyers01]
Scott Meyers, Item 50: Familiarize yourself with STL-related web sites. Effective STL, Addison-Wesley, 2001, page 221. ISBN: 0-201-74962-9
[Sutter01]
Herb Sutter, The String Formatters of Manor Farm. C/C++ Users Journal, Vol. 19, November, 2001. www.gotw.ca/publications/mill19.htm

2002

[Ablavsky02]
Vitaly Ablavsky, Applying BGL to Computational Geometry. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0208ablavsky/
[Alexandrescu02]
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
[HyslopSutter02]
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.
[Sutter02]
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/
[Sutter02a]
Herb Sutter, The New C++: Smart(er) Pointers. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7980/cujcexp2008sutter/

2003

[Besser03]
Mitch Besser, Generic Printable ENUM++. C/C++ Users Journal, June, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cujboost0306besser/
Mentions BOOST_PP
[Nasonov03]
Alexander Nasonov, I/O System: dynamic_any Campaign. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cujweb0309nasonov/
Improved boost::any
[Sutter03a]
Herb Sutter, Generalizing Observer. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8840/cujexp0309sutter/
[Tan03]
Kwee H. Tan, Exploring EDA Algorithms with the Boost Graph Library. C/C++ Users Journal, July, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0307tan/
[VandervoordeJosuttis03]
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

2005

[Meyers05]
Scott Meyers, Item 55: Familiarize yourself with Boost. Effective C++, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, May 12, 2005. ISBN: 0-321-33487-6

2017

[Polukhin17Online]
Antony Polukhin, Online Compilation and Examples: Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook. https://apolukhin.github.io/Boost-Cookbook/
Compile, modify and run online examples from the 'Boost Application Development Cookbook' without any need to install C++ compiler or Boost C++ Libraries.

Online mentions of Boost or Boost Libraries

2001

[Siek01]
Jeremy G. Siek, An Implementation of Graph Isomorphism Testing, December 9, 2001. www.boost.org/libs/graph/doc/isomorphism-impl.pdf

2002

[Burnap02]
Steven R. Burnap, Boost::any, Kuro5hin, May 1, 2002. www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/5/1/142321/9513
[Carbon02]
David S?, Boost : The handy library of handy libraries. Kuro5hin, July 18, 2002. www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/18/3313/01429
[Curran02]
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<>.
[Siek02b]
Jeremy G. Siek, Internet Packet Routing with the Boost Graph Library. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/26dwj

2003

[Casad03]
Joe Casad, Introducing the Boost Corner. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0308boostcorner/
[Lischner03]
Ray Lischner, C++: Beyond the Standard Library. O'Reilly Network, May 6, 2003. www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/3683
Mentions tuples, shared_ptr, lambda, spirit.

2004

[Inaba04a]
Kazuhiro Inaba, Let's Boost. 2004. www.kmonos.net/alang/boost/
[Stein04]
Sebastian Stein, How to use Boost Test for automated testing. 2004. www.hpfsc.de/boosttest/

2005

[Lindrud05]
Jarl Lindrud, RMI for C++. The Code Project, April 11, 2005. www.codeproject.com/KB/threads/RMI_For_Cpp.aspx
Uses Boost.Serialization.

2013

[Kormanyos13]
Christopher Kormanyos, Real-Time C++: Efficient Object-Oriented and Template Microcontroller Programming. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56718-0
Uses C++11 including lambdas, templates, metatemplate programming for efficient programming for microcontrollers including use of Boost.Math, Boost.Regex, Boost.Multiprecision and other Boost libraries.
[Nakariakov13]
Sergei Nakariakov, The Boost C++ Libraries: Generic Programming, ISBN 978-1484813911. http://www.amazon.com/The-Boost-Libraries-Generic-Programming/dp/148481391X/
This book covers 24 Boost C++ Libraries with primary focus on generic programming using Boost.TypeTraits, Boost.ConceptCheck, SFINAE, Generic Image Library, Boost.Operators, Boost.TypeTraitsIntrospection and others.

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