On 10/30/2014 10:20 PM, Boris Schäling wrote:

Just a quick announcement: The 2nd edition of my book "The Boost C++ Libraries" is available.

- It introduces 72 Boost libraries. - It contains more than 430 examples. - The print version has about 570 pages. - There is also a Kindle, Epub and PDF version. - It's even online: http://theboostcpplibraries.com/

Hi Boris,

I just wanted to chime in and say that I think this book is fabulous. I read a large part of it about a year ago, and am thrilled to see it getting such a substantial update. While the Boost documentation is usually more than enough to get started, your book does an excellent job of filling in the gaps when it comes to how a certain library might be used in practice, things to be aware of etc. Even though the book is free to read online, I'll order it at some point just to support the project. Keep up the good work! Kind regards, Philip Bennefall

On 10/31/14, 5:20 AM, Boris Schäling wrote:

Just a quick announcement: The 2nd edition of my book "The Boost C++ Libraries" is available.

- It introduces 72 Boost libraries. - It contains more than 430 examples. - The print version has about 570 pages. - There is also a Kindle, Epub and PDF version. - It's even online: http://theboostcpplibraries.com/

A special "thank you" goes to Niall who handled this year's Google Summer of Code program so smoothly that I as a backup admin didn't need to do anything - and had enough time to work on the book. :)

Very nice! This gives me an idea how to write easy to read tutorials. I might have more comments, but one will suffice for now: Fusion: "boost::fusion::push_back() returns a new vector. The vector v isn’t changed. The new vector is a copy of the original vector with the added element." That is not correct. push_back returns a view, not a container: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/libs/fusion/doc/html/fusion/algorithm/t... "Returns a view which is lazily evaluated." This makes push_back very efficient at runtime. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.ciere.com http://boost-spirit.com http://www.cycfi.com/