Hi 2008/12/14 Boris <boriss@web.de>:
I've written a book in German about the Boost C++ libraries and uploaded it to http://www.highscore.de/cpp/boost/. As this is the very first version it's currently only available in HTML. I would appreciate any feedback about the content, presentation, examples, typos :) etc.
I really appreciate the idea! I directly looked at the asio chapter, because I am interested in that topic right now. Defining a new service for asio is a very good idea to for an advanced asio introduction. Maybe you could do some beginner stuff before doing that. Furthermore you should really rework the timer service example: "[...] Während eine synchrone Operation wie wait lediglich auf die Dienst-Implementation zugreift, um eine blockierende Methode aufzurufen, erfolgt dies für eine asynchrone Operation wie async_wait mit Hilfe eines Threads. Der Trick bei asynchronen Operationen ist also der, dass eine blockierende Funktion einfach in einem Thread aufgerufen wird." Instead of advertising worker threads for blocking function calls as "the trick" for asyncronous operations, you should explain why this is a rather dirty and expensive fallback - only required if no other solution can be found. Doing it the right way is not as easy as in the current example from the book, but far more interesting. kind regards Anreas Pokorny