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I’ve been very busy these last two months getting Boost.JSON ready for release, hence the combined blog post. Now that things are winding down, I hopefully can get back the normal blog release schedule.

We’re currently beta-testing Boost 1.74, the lead-up to which has seen a flurry of activity in Asio, which has impacted Beast.

Greetings, and welcome to my first blog post at The C++ Alliance.

Boost 1.73.0 has been released! Save for some minor documentation issues, Boost.StaticString enjoyed a bug-free release, so most of this month was spent working on Boost.JSON getting it ready for review.

The 1.73.0 release of Boost took up more attention than I had anticipated, but in the end all seemed to go well.

StaticString: A dynamically resizable string of characters with compile-time fixed capacity and contiguous embedded storage, from Krystian Stasiowski and Vinnie Falco.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my classes have been moved online. It’s certainly an interesting way to teach, but admittedly I can’t say it’s enjoyable or effective.

It has been an interesting month, there having been the minor distraction of a lockdown of our little country. The borders with Spain and France were closed about three weeks ago and all residents have been asked to stay at home other than to buy groceries or walk their dogs.

I’m a first-year university student at the University of Connecticut pursuing a degree in Computer Science. I joined The C++ Alliance near the end of January as a part-time Staff Engineer at the recommendation of Vinnie, who has been mentoring me for the past several months.

Aside from the normal answering of queries and issues , February has been a month dominated by the difference between the asio::DynamicBuffer_v1 and asio::DynamicBuffer_v2 concepts.

This is my first entry on the C++ Alliance web site. I’m very happy to say that I was invited to join the organisation at the end of December last year.

The Alliance is a Gold sponsor for C++Now 2020 . This conference is a gathering of C++ experts and enthusiasts from around the world in beautiful Aspen, Colorado from May 3, 2020 - May 8, 2020.